ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Cf. Ps 104: 3-4
Let the hearts that seek the Lord
rejoice; turn to the Lord and his
strength; constantly seek his face.
COLLECT
Almighty ever-living God, increase our
faith, hope and charity, and make us
love what you command, so that we
may merit what you promise. 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.
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.
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.
Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy. Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Love is his word, love is his way,
Feasting with kin, fasting alone,
Living and dying, rising again,
Love, only love, is his way.
Richer than gold is the love of my Lord:
Better than splendour and wealth.
Love is his way, love is his mark,
sharing his last Passover feast,
Christ at his table, host to the twelve,
love, only love, is his mark.
Love is his law, love is his word,
love of the Lord, Father and Word,
love of the Spirit, God ever one,
love, only love, is his word.
Love is his name, love is his law.
Hear his command, all who are his:
‘Love one another, I have loved you.’
Love, only love, is his law.
25th October 2026
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.
SIT
The Liturgy of the Word
Entrance Hymn
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
FIRST READING 22:20-26
A reading from the book of Exodus
The Lord said to Moses, “Tell the sons
of Israel this, ‘You must not molest the
stranger or oppress him, for you lived
as strangers in the land of Egypt. You
must not be harsh with the widow, or
with the orphan; if you are harsh with
them, they will surely cry out to me,
and be sure I shall hear their cry; my
anger will flare and I shall kill you with
the sword, your own wives will be
widows, your own children orphans.’
“If you lend money to any of my
people, to any poor man among you,
you must not play the usurer with him:
you must not demand interest from
him.’
“If you take another’s cloak as a
pledge, you must give it back to him
before sunset. It is all the covering he
has; it is the cloak he wraps his body
in; what else would he sleep in? If he
cries to me, I will listen, for I am full of
pity.”
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Ps 17:2-4,47, 51; Rv2
R. I love you, Lord, my strength.
1. I love you, Lord, my strength,
my rock, my fortress, my saviour.
My God is the rock where I take refuge;
my shield, my mighty help, my
stronghold;
the Lord is worthy of all praise:
when I call I am saved from my foes. R.
2. Long life to the Lord, my rock!
Praised be the God who saves me.
He has given great victories to his king
and shown his love for his anointed. R.
PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
Look, we pray, O Lord,
on the offerings we make to your
majesty, that whatever is done by us
in your service may be directed above
all to your glory.
Through Christ our Lord.
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
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.
PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL
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.
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 22:34-40
The Lord be with you
And with your Spirit.
A reading from the holy
Gospel according to Matthew
Glory to you, O Lord.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus
had silenced the Sadducees they got
together and, to disconcert him, one of
them put a question, ‘Master, which is
the greatest commandment of the
Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the
Lord your God with all your heart, with
all your soul, and with all your mind.
This is the greatest and the first
commandment. The second
resembles it: you must love your
neighbour as yourself. On these two
commandments hang the whole Law,
and the Prophets also.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
ACCLAMATION Jn14:23
Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O God, to accept
the words of your Son. Alleluia!
SECOND READING 1:5-10
A reading from the first letter of St
Paul to the Thessalonians.
You observed the sort of life we lived
when we were with you, which was for
your instruction, and you were led to
become imitators of us, and of the
Lord; and it was with the joy of the
Holy Spirit that you took to the gospel,
in spite of the great opposition all
around you.
This has made you the great
example to all believers in Macedonia
and Achaia since it was from you that
the word of the Lord started to spread
– and not only throughout Macedonia
and Achaia, for the news of your faith
in God has spread everywhere.
We do not need to tell other people
about it: other people tell us how we
started the work among you, how you
broke with idolatory when you were
converted to God and became
servants of the real, living God; and
how you are now waiting for Jesus,
his Son, whom he raised from the
dead, to come from heaven to save
us from the retribution which is
coming.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
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.
The mystery of faith
We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.
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 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:
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,
together with Leo our Pope and
N. our Bishop, his assistant Bishop(s),
and all the clergy.
Remember also our brothers and
sisters who have fallen asleep in the
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II
PREFACE III 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 we know it belongs to your
boundless glory,
that you came to the aid of mortal
beings with your divinity
and even fashioned for us a remedy
out of mortality itself,
that the cause of our downfall
might become the means of our
salvation,
through Christ our Lord.
Through him the host of Angels
adores your majesty
and rejoices in your presence for
ever.
May our voices, we pray, join with
theirs in one chorus of exultant
praise, as we acclaim:
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 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.
Communion Rite
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, once more giving thanks,
he gave it 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.
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.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON Cf. Ps 19: 6
We will ring out our joy at your
saving help and exult in the name of
our God.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
May your Sacraments, O Lord, we
pray, perfect in us what lies within
them, that what we now celebrate in
signs we may one day possess in
truth. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Gifts of bread and wine,
gifts we’ve offered,
fruits of labour, fruits of love;
taken, offered, sanctified,
blessed and broken;
words of one who died:
Refrain: ‘Take my body, take my
saving blood.’
Gifts of bread and wine:
Christ our Lord.
Christ our Saviour,
living presence here,
as he promised while on earth:
‘I am with you for all time,
I am with you
in this bread and wine.’ Refrain
Through the Father, with the Spirit,
one in union with the Son,
for God’s people, joined in prayer,
faith is strengthened
by the food we share. Refrain
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
Bow head for the blessing Ord. Time V No13
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.
God’s spirit is in my heart.
He has called me and set me apart.
This is what I have to do,
what I have to do.
He sent me to give the Good News to the
poor,
tell prisoners that they are prisoners
no more,
tell the blind people that they can see,
and set the downtrodden free,
and go tell ev’ryone
the news that the Kingdom of God has
come,
and go tell ev’ryone
the news that God’s Kingdom has come.
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 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.
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.
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Communion Hymn
Private Prayer after Communion
Concluding Rites
Recessional Hymn
Lord Jesus, my Saviour, in your love you
have called me to your Supper.
Abide in me and I in you.
“What is the greatest thing a man can do
on earth?” they asked you.
“What is the first thing that God asks of
man or woman?”
“Which is the greatest of the
commandments of God?”
May I never forget your answer.
“You must love the Lord your God with
all your heart, with all your soul and with all
your mind.’
I love you, my Lord, my strength, my rock,
my fortress, my Saviour.
The second commandment is: you must
love your neighbour as yourself. I shall be
friendly to strangers, helpful of the weak,
honest in work and trade. Thus may I be a
servant of the real, living God: waiting for
Jesus, his Son, whom he raised from the
dead, to come from heaven to save me.