ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Cf. Ps 85: 3,
5 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I
cry to you all the day long.
O Lord, you are good and
forgiving, full of mercy to all who
call to you.

COLLECT
God of might, giver of every good gift,
put into our hearts the love of your
name, so that, by deepening our
sense of reverence,
you may nurture in us what is good

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.

The absolution by the priest follows:
May almighty God have mercy on us,
forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.

PENITENTIAL ACT
Brethren (Brothers and sisters),
let us acknowledge our sins,
and so prepare ourselves to
celebrate the sacred mysteries.

SIT

Refrain:
A new hymn of praise let us sing
to the Lord,
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
This is the day the Lord has made.
Ransom for sin his life he gave.
To save us he was crucified,
Raising our hearts when hope had
died.
Bringing him gifts of bread and wine,
We receive back, his life divine.
So live within us, make us one;
Stay with us Lord, till life is done.

Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy. Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.

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.

GLORIA

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.

30th August 2026

The Liturgy of the Word

Entrance Hymn

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

and, by your watchful care,
keep safe what you have nurtured.
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.

FIRST READING 20:7-9
A reading from the prophet
Jeremiah
You have seduced me, Lord, and
I have let myself be seduced;
you have overpowered me:
you were the stronger.
I am a daily laughing-stock,
everybody’s butt.
Each time I speak the word,
I have to howl and proclaim:
‘Violence and ruin!’
The word of the Lord has meant for me
insult, derision, all day long.
I used to say, I will not think about him,
I will not speak in his name any
more.
Then there seemed to be a fire
burning in my heart,
imprisoned in my bones.
The effort to restrain it wearied me,
I could not bear it.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

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.
PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL

SIT

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

GOSPEL 16:21-27

The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A reading from the holy
Gospel according to Matthew
Glory to you, O Lord.

Jesus began to make it clear to his
disciples that he was destined to go
to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at
the hands of the elders and chief
priests and scribes, to be put to
death and to be raised up on the third
day. Then, taking him aside, Peter
started to remonstrate with him.
“Heaven preserve you, Lord,” he
said. “This must not happen to you.”
But he turned and said to Peter, “Get
behind me, Satan! You are an
obstacle in my path, because the
way you think is not God's way but
man’s.”

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If
anyone wants to be a follower of
mine, let him renounce himself and
take up his cross and follow me. For
anyone who wants to save his life will
lose it; but anyone who loses his life
for my sake will find it. What, then,
will a man gain if he wins the whole
world and ruins his life? Or what has
a man to offer in exchange for his
life?

“For the Son of Man is going to
come in the glory of his Father with
his angels, and, when he does, he
will reward each one according to his
behaviour.”

The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

ACCLAMATION cf.Eph 1:17.18
Alleluia, alleluia!

May the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of

our mind, so that we can see
what hope his call holds for us.

Alleluia!

SECOND READING 12:1-2

A reading from the letter of
St Paul to the Romans
Think of God's mercy, my brothers,
and worship him, I beg you, in a way
that is worthy of thinking beings, by
offering your living bodies as a holy
sacrifice, truly pleasing to God. Do
not model yourselves on the
behaviour of the world around you,
but let your behaviour change,
modelled by your new mind. This is
the only way to discover the will of
God and know what is good, what it
is that God wants, what is the perfect
thing to do.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Ps62:2-6, 8-9. R.v.2
R. For you my soul is thirsting,
O Lord my God.
1. O God, you are my God, for you I
long:
for you my soul is thirsting.
My body pines for you.
like a dry, weary land without water.
R.
2. So I gaze on you in the sanctuary
to see your strength and your glory.
For your love is better than life,
my lips will speak your praise. R.
3. So I will bless you all my life,
in your name I will lift up my hands.
My soul shall be filled as with a
banquet,
my mouth shall praise you with joy.
R.
4. For you have been my help;
in the shadow of your wings
I rejoice.
My soul clings to you;
your right hand holds me fast. R.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
May this sacred offering, O Lord,
confer on us always the blessing of
salvation,
that what it celebrates in mystery
it may accomplish in power.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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.

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER III
Preface VII Ordinary Time

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, always and everywhere
to give you thanks,
Lord, holy Father, almighty and
eternal God.
For you so loved the world
that in your mercy you sent us the
Redeemer, to live like us in all things
but sin, so that you might love in us
what you loved in your Son,
by whose obedience we have been
restored to those gifts of yours
that, by sinning, we had lost in
disobedience.
And so, Lord, with all the Angels and
Saints, we, too, give you thanks, as in
exultation we acclaim:

The mystery of faith:
We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.
Then the Priest, with hands extended, says:
Therefore, O Lord, as we celebrate
the memorial of the saving Passion of
your Son,
his wondrous Resurrection and
Ascension into heaven, and as we
look forward to his second coming, we
offer you in thanksgiving this holy and
living sacrifice.

Look, we pray, upon the oblation of
your Church and, recognising the
sacrificial Victim by whose death
you willed to reconcile us to yourself,
grant that we, who are nourished by
the Body and Blood of your Son and

filled with his Holy Spirit, may become
one body, one spirit in Christ.
May he make of us an eternal offering
to you, so that we may obtain an
inheritance with your elect,
especially with the most Blessed
Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
with blessed Joseph, her Spouse, with
the blessed Apostles and glorious
Martyrs (with Saint N., the Saint of the
day or Patron Saint) and with all the
Saints, on whose constant
intercession in your presence we rely
for unfailing help.
May this Sacrifice of our reconciliation,
we pray, O Lord, advance the peace
and salvation of all the world. Be
pleased to confirm in faith and charity
your pilgrim Church on earth,
with your servant Leo, our Pope, and
N. our Bishop, his assistant Bishop(s)
the Order of Bishops, all the clergy,
and the entire people you have gained
for your own.
Listen graciously to the prayers of this
family, whom you have summoned
before you: in your compassion, O
merciful Father, gather to yourself all
your children scattered throughout the
world.
To our departed brothers and sisters
and to all who were pleasing to you
at their passing from this life,
give kind admittance to your kingdom.
There we hope to enjoy for ever the
fullness of your glory
The Priest joins his hands.
through Christ our Lord,
through whom you bestow on the
world all that is good.

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.

You are indeed Holy, O Lord,
and all you have created
rightly gives you praise,
for through your Son our Lord Jesus

Facing the people the priest says:

Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters),
that my sacrifice and yours
may be acceptable to God,
the almighty Father.

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.

Communion Rite

Christ, by the power and working of
the Holy Spirit,
you give life to all things and make
them holy, and you never cease to
gather a people to yourself, so that
from the rising of the sun to its setting
a pure sacrifice may be offered
to your name.
Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore
you: by the same Spirit graciously
make holy these gifts we have brought
to you for consecration, that they may
become the Body and @ Blood of your
Son our Lord Jesus Christ, at whose
command we celebrate these
mysteries.
For on the night he was betrayed
he himself took bread and, giving you
thanks, he said the blessing,
broke the bread 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.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ps 30: 20
How great is the goodness, Lord,
that you keep for those who fear you.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Renewed by this bread from the
heavenly table,
we beseech you, Lord,
that, being the food of charity,
it may confirm our hearts
and stir us to serve you in our
neighbour.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

How lovely on the mountains
are the feet of him
who brings good news, good news,
announcing peace,
proclaiming news of happiness:
our God reigns, our God reigns.
R. Our God reigns, our God reigns,
our God reigns, our God reigns.
Ends of the earth, see the salvation
of our God!
Jesus is Lord, is Lord!
Before the nations,
he has bared his holy arm:
our God reigns, our God reigns. R

The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.

Bow head for the blessing – No.13
May almighty God always keep every
adversity far from you and in his
kindness pour out upon you the gifts of
his blessing.
Amen.
May God keep your hearts attentive to
his words, that they may be filled with
everlasting gladness.
Amen.
And so, may you always understand
what is good and right, and be found
ever hastening along in the path of
God’s commands, made coheirs with
the citizens 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 forth, the Mass is ended.
Thanks be to God.

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 says quietly:
May the receiving of your Body and
Blood, Lord Jesus Christ,
not bring me to judgment 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.

Imprimi Potest: Concordat Cum Originali: @ Most Rev. Alan McGuckian SJ, Bishop of Down and Connor. Nihil Obstat: Excerpts from
the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy corporation.
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Communion Hymn

Private Prayer after Communion

Concluding Rites

Recessional Hymn

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.

For the kingdom, the power and the
glory
are yours, now and for ever.

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.

Lord Jesus, my Redeemer,
you suffered grievously; you were
rejected by the leaders of your own
people; you were put to death and
raised up on the third day. Your
followers must tread the same path.
‘If anyone wants to be a follower of me,
let him renounce himself and take up
his cross and follow me’.
Today, some of your followers must
renounce their wealth, reputation,
friends, even their life.
Some are in prison. Others bear the
unspectacular burden of their family,
of the efffort of their work,
of the pain of illness or failure.
Guest of my soul, let me recognise my
cross and take it up today. Let me
recall your words, ‘What does it profit a
man, if he gains the whole world
and suffers the loss of his soul.’

Longing for light, we wait in darkness.
Longing for truth, we turn to you.
Make us your own, your holy people,
light for the world to see.

Christ be our light! Shine in our hearts.
Shine through the darkness.
Christ be our light!
Shine in your Church gathered today.

Longing for peace, our world is troubled.
Longing for hope, many despair.
Your word alone has power to save us.
Make us your living voice.

Longing for food, many are hungry.
Longing for water, still many thirst.
Make us your bread, broken for others,
shared until all are fed.

Longing for shelter, many are homeless.
Longing for warmth, many are cold.
Make us your building, sheltering others,
walls made of living stone.