COLLECT
Grant, almighty God,
that we may celebrate with heartfelt
devotion these days of joy,
which we keep in honour of the risen
Lord, and that what we relive in
remembrance we may always hold to
in what we do.
SIT
I will never forget you my people;
I have carved you
on the palm of my hand.
I will never forget you;
I will not leave you orphaned.
I will never forget my own.
Does a mother forget her baby?
Or a woman
the child within her womb?
Yet even if these forget,
I will never forget my own.
I will never forget you, my people;
I have carved you
on the palm of my hand.
I will never forget you;
I will not leave you orphaned.
I will never forget my own.
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Cf. Is 48: 20
Proclaim a joyful sound and let it
be heard; proclaim to the ends of
the earth:
The Lord has freed his people,
alleluia.
Sixth Sunday of Easter
10th May 2026
Priest: In the name of the Father and
of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.
People: Amen.
Grace to you and peace from God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
And with your spirit.
PENITENTIAL ACT
Brethren (Brothers and sisters),
let us acknowledge our sins,
and so prepare ourselves to
celebrate the sacred mysteries.
I confess to almighty God
and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned,
in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have
failed to do,
Striking your breast as you say:
through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault;
therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.
The absolution by the priest follows:
May almighty God have mercy on us,
forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy. Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of
good will.
We praise you,
we bless you,
we adore you,
we glorify you,
we give you thanks for your great
glory,
Lord God, heavenly King,
O God, almighty Father.
Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten
Son,
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the
Father,
you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us;
you take away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer;
you are seated at the right hand of
the Father,
have mercy on us.
For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father.
Amen.
GLORIA
The Liturgy of the Word
Entrance Hymn
FIRST READING 8:5-8.14-17
A reading from the Acts of the
Apostles
Philip went to a Samaritan town and
proclaimed the Christ to them. The
people united in welcoming the
message Phil ip preached, either
because they had heard of the
miracles he worked or because they
saw them for themselves. There were,
for example, unclean spirits that came
shrieking out of many who were
possessed, and several paralytics and
cripples were cured. As a result there
was great rejoicing in that town.
When the apostles in Jerusalem
heard that Samaria had accepted the
word of God, they sent Peter and
John to them, and they went down
there, and prayed for the Samaritans
to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he
had not come down on any of them:
they had only been baptised in the
name of the Lord Jesus. Then they
laid hands on them, and they received
the Holy Spirit.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your
Son, who lives and reigns with you in
the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for
ever and ever.
Amen.
PROFESSION OF FAITH
I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial
with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
(All bow during the next three lines)
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate
of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake he was crucified under
Pontius Pilate,
he suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the
Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead
and his kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and
the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is
adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic and
apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the
forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to the resurrection
of the dead
and the life of the world to come.
Amen.
SIT
PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL
Raising the host, the priest says:
Blessed are you, Lord, God of all
creation, for through your goodness
we have received the bread we offer
you: fruit of the earth and work of
human hands,
it will become for us the bread of life.
Blessed be God for ever.
The priest pours wine and a little water
into the chalice, saying quietly:
By the mystery of this water and wine
may we come to share in the divinity
of Christ,
who humbled himself to share in our
humanity.
Raising the chalice, the priest says:
Blessed are you, Lord, God of all
creation, for through your goodness
we have received the wine we offer
you: fruit of the vine and work of
human hands,
it will become our spiritual drink.
Blessed be God for ever.
Bowing the priest says quietly:
With humble spirit and contrite heart
may we be accepted by you, O Lord,
and may our sacrifice in your sight this
day be pleasing to you, O Lord.
Then the priest washes his hands, saying
quietly:
Wash me, O Lord, from my iniquity;
and cleanse me from my sin.
Liturgy of the Eucharist
SECOND READING 3:15-18
A reading from the first letter of
St Peter
Reverence the Lord Christ in your
hearts, and always have your answer
ready for people who ask you the
reason for the hope that you all have.
But give it with courtesy and respect
and with a clear conscience, so that
those who slander you when you are
living a good life in Christ may be
proved wrong in the accusations that
they bring. And if it is the will of God
that you should suffer, it is better to
suffer for doing right than for doing
wrong.
Why, Christ himself, innocent though
he was, had died once for sins, died
for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the
body he was put to death, in the spirit
he was raised to life.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
ACCLAMATION Jn14:23
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus said:
“If anyone loves me he will keep
my word and my Father will love
him, and we shall come to him.”
Alleluia!
GOSPEL 14:15-21
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A reading from the holy
Gospel according to John.
Glory to you, O Lord.
Jesus said to his disciples:
“If you love me you will keep my
commandments.
I shall ask the Father,
and he will give you another
Advocate to be with you for ever, that
Spirit of truth whom the world can
never receive since it neither sees nor
knows him; but you know him,
because he is with you, he is in you.
I will not leave you orphans;
I will come back to you.
In a short time the world will no
longer see me; but you will see me,
because I live and you will live.
On that day you will understand that
I am in my Father and you in me and I
in you.
Anybody who receives my
commandments and keeps them will
be one who loves me; and anybody
who loves me will be loved by my
Father, and I shall love him and show
myself to him.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Ps65:1-7.16.20.R.v.1
R. Cry out with joy to God all the
earth
or Alleluia!
1. Cry out with joy to God all the earth,
O sing to the glory of his name.
O render him glorious praise.
Say to God: “How tremendous your
deeds!” R.
2. “Before you all the earth shall bow;
shall sing to you, sing to your name!
Come and see the works of God,
tremendous his deeds among men.
R.
3. He turned the sea into dry land,
they passed through the river
dry-shod.
Let our joy then be in him;
he rules for ever by his might. R.
4. Come and hear, all who fear God.
I will tell what he did for my soul;
Blessed be God who did not reject
my prayer
nor withhold his love from me. R.
PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
May our prayers rise up to you, O Lord,
together with the sacrificial offerings,
so that, purified by your graciousness,
we may be conformed to the mysteries
of your mighty love.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Facing the people the priest says:
Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters),
that my sacrifice and yours
may be acceptable to God,
the almighty Father.
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
May the Lord accept the sacrifice at
your hands
for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good, and the good of all
his holy Church.
Then the Priest, with hands extended, says:
Therefore, as we celebrate the
memorial of his Death and
Resurrection,
we offer you, Lord,
the Bread of life and the Chalice of
salvation,
giving thanks that you have held us
worthy to be in your presence and
minister to you.
Humbly we pray
that, partaking of the Body and Blood
of Christ,
we may be gathered into one by the
Holy Spirit.
Remember, Lord, your Church,
spread throughout the world,
and bring her to the fullness of charity,
You are indeed Holy, O Lord,
the fount of all holiness.
The Priest joins his hands and, holding them
extended over the offerings, says:
Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we
pray,
by sending down your Spirit upon
them like the dewfall,
so that they may become for us
the Body X and Blood of our Lord,
Jesus Christ.
At the time he was betrayed
and entered willingly into his Passion,
he took bread and, giving thanks,
broke it,
and gave it to his disciples, saying:
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT
OF IT,
FOR THIS IS MY BODY,
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.
In a similar way, when supper was
ended, he took the chalice,
and, giving you thanks, he said the
blessing,
and gave the chalice to his disciples,
saying:
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND
DRINK FROM IT,
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY
BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND
ETERNAL COVENANT,
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR
YOU AND FOR MANY
FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.
The mystery of faith:
Save us, Saviour of the world,
for by your Cross and Resurrection
you have set us free.
together with Leo, our Pope,
N. our Bishop, his assistant Bishop(s),
and all the clergy.
Remember also our brothers and
sisters
who have fallen asleep in the hope of
the resurrection,
and all who have died in your mercy:
welcome them into the light of your
face.
Have mercy on us all, we pray,
that with the Blessed Virgin Mary,
Mother of God, with blessed Joseph,
her Spouse, with the blessed Apostles
and with all the Saints who have
pleased you throughout the ages,
we may merit to be coheirs to eternal
life,
and may praise and glorify you
through your Son, Jesus Christ.
The Priest takes the chalice and the paten
with the host and, elevating both, he says:
Through him, and with him,
and in him,
O God, almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honour is yours,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
At the Saviour’s command
and formed by divine teaching,
we dare to say:
Our Father, who art in heaven . . .
Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil,
graciously grant peace in our days,
that, by the help of your mercy,
we may be always free from sin
and safe from all distress,
as we await the blessed hope
and the coming of our Saviour, Jesus
Christ.
For the kingdom, the power and
the glory
are yours, now and for ever.
Lord Jesus Christ,
who said to your Apostles:
Peace I leave you, my peace I give
you, look not on our sins,
but on the faith of your Church,
and graciously grant her peace and
unity in accordance with your will.
Who live and reign for ever and ever.
Amen.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II
Preface V of Easter
The Lord be with you.
And with your Spirit.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right and just
It is truly right and just, our duty and
our salvation,
at all times to acclaim you, O Lord,
but in this time above all to laud you
yet more gloriously,
when Christ our Passover has been
sacrificed.
By the oblation of his Body,
he brought the sacrifices of old to
fulfilment
in the reality of the Cross and, by
commending himself to you
for our salvation,
showed himself the Priest, the Altar,
and the Lamb of sacrifice.
Therefore, overcome with paschal joy,
every land, every people exults in your
praise and even the heavenly Powers,
with the angelic hosts,
sing together the unending hymn of
your glory, as they acclaim:
Communion Rite
Lord Jesus, I reverence you in my heart.
You sent the Holy Spirit to me at
confirmation. May the Spirit of Truth help
me to understand your words, and
strengthen me in my daily life to follow
your example. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the
hearts of your faithful and enkindle in us
the fire of your love.
Welcome, Lord Jesus, into this soul of
mine. You are the Word who was made
flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary,
suffered and died on the cross to save
me, and then went back to the Father,
promising to return.
I know you will come again on the last
day, the Lamb who is to be the light of
the new Jerusalem. Yet you do not wait
until that day of glory; in your great love
you now come to me sacramentally.
You bring with you your gift of peace,
so that my heart may not be troubled or
afraid.
The peace you give is not that of this
world, but union with you and the Father
in the Holy Spirit.
I want to love you and keep your
word, so that you and the Father may
always make your home with me.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Jn 14: 15-16
If you love me, keep my
commandments, says the Lord,
and I will ask the Father and he will
send you another Paraclete,
to abide with you for ever, alleluia.
The peace of the Lord be with you
always.
And with your Spirit.
The priest may add these or similar words.
Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
The priest places a small piece of the host in
the chalice saying quietly:
May this mingling of the body and
blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
bring eternal life to us who receive it.
Meanwhile the people sing or say:
Lamb of God, you take away the
sins of the world:
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the
sins of the world:
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the
sins of the world:
grant us peace.
May the Body of Christ
keep me safe for eternal life.
The Priest reverently consumes the Body of
Christ.
Then he takes the chalice and says quietly:
May the Blood of Christ
keep me safe for eternal life.
The Priest raises a host slightly and shows it
to each of the communicants, saying:
The Body of Christ.
Amen.
The priest says quietly:
May the receiving of your Body and
Blood,
Lord Jesus Christ,
not bring me to judgement and
condemnation,
but through your loving mercy
be for me protection in mind and body,
and a healing remedy.
Raising the host the priest says:
Behold the Lamb of God,
behold him who takes away the sins of
the world.
Blessed are those called to the supper
of the Lamb.
And together with the people he says once:
Lord, I am not worthy
that you should enter under my roof,
but only say the word
and my soul shall be healed.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Almighty ever-living God, who restore
us to eternal life in the Resurrection of
Christ, increase in us, we pray, the
fruits of this paschal Sacrament and
pour into our hearts the strength of
this saving food.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Praise, my soul, the king of heaven!
To his feet thy tribute bring.
Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
who like me his praise should sing?
Praise him! Praise him!
Praise him! Praise him!
Praise the everlasting king!
Praise him for his grace and favour
to our fathers in distress;
praise him still the same for ever,
slow to chide and swift to bless.
Praise him! Praise him!
Praise him! Praise him!
Glorious in his faithfulness!
Refrain:
We have been told, we’ve seen his
face, and heard his voice alive in our
hearts;
live in my love with all your heart,
as the Father has loved me,
so I have loved you.
I am the vine, you are the branches,
and all who live in me will bear
great fruit. R.
You are my friends, if you keep my
commands, no longer slaves, I call
you friends. R.
No greater love is there than this:
to lay down one’s life, for a friend.
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The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
Solemn Blessing No6 Easter Time
May God, who by the Resurrection of
his Only Begotten Son
was pleased to confer on you
the gift of redemption and of adoption,
give you gladness by his blessing.
Amen.
May he, by whose redeeming work
you have received the gift of
everlasting freedom, make you heirs to
an eternal inheritance.
Amen.
And may you, who have already risen
with Christ in Baptism through faith,
by living in a right manner on this
earth, be united with him in the
homeland of heaven.
Amen.
And may the blessing of almighty God,
the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, come down on you
and remain with you for ever.
Amen.
Go in peace glorifying the Lord by
your life.
Thanks be to God.
Communion Hymn
Private Prayer after Communion
Concluding Rites
Recessional Hymn