ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Cf. Ps 47: 10-11
Your merciful love, O God,
we have received in the midst of
your temple. Your praise, O God,
like your name, reaches the ends of
the earth; your right hand is filled
with saving justice.

COLLECT
O God, who in the abasement of
your Son have raised up a fallen world,
fill your faithful with holy joy, for on those
you have rescued from slavery to sin
you bestow eternal gladness.
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.

SIT

Come to me,
all who labour and are heavy burdened,
and I shall give you rest.
Take up my yoke and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart.
And you’ll find rest for your souls.
Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden is
light.

The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall never be in need.
Fresh and green are the pastures
where he gives me rest.

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

5th July 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.

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.
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.

The Liturgy of the Word

Entrance Hymn

FIRST READING 9:9-10

A reading from the prophet
Zechariah
The Lord says this:
“Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of
Zion!
Shout with gladness, daughter of
Jerusalem!
See now, your king comes to you;
he is victorious, he is triumphant,
humble and riding on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
He will banish chariots from Ephraim
and horses from Jerusalem;
the bow of war will be banished.
He will proclaim peace for the nations.
His empire shall stretch from sea to
sea,
from the River to the ends of the
earth.”
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,

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.

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.

SIT

Liturgy of the Eucharist

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.

GOSPEL 11:25-30

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

Jesus exclaimed, “I bless you, Father,
Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding
these things from the learned and the
clever and revealing them to mere
children. Yes, Father, for that is what it
pleased you to do. Everything has
been entrusted to me by my Father;
and no one knows the Son except the
Father, just as no one knows the
Father except the Son and those to
whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
“Come to me, all you who labour
and are overburdened, and I will give
you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn
from me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart, and you will find rest for your
souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my
burden light.”

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

ACCLAMATION cf.Mt11:25
Alleluia, alleluia!

Blessed are you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,

for revealing the mysteries of the
kingdom to mere children.

Alleluia!

SECOND READING 8:9.11-13
A reading from the letter of St Paul
to the Romans
Your interests are not in the
unspiritual, but in the spiritual, since
the Spirit of God has made his home
in you. In fact, unless you possessed
the Spirit of Christ you would not
belong to him, and if the Spirit of him
who raised Jesus from the dead is
living in you, then he who raised
Jesus from the dead will give life to
your own mortal bodies through his
Spirit living in you.
So then, my brothers, there is no
necessity for us to obey our
unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual
lives. If you do live in that way, you
are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit
you put an end to the misdeeds of the
body you will live.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Ps144:1-2.8-11.13-14.R.v1
R. I will bless your name for ever,
O God my King.
1. I will give you glory, O God my King,
I will bless your name for ever.
I will bless you day after day
and praise your name for ever. R.

2. The Lord is kind and full of
compassion,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
How good is the Lord to all,
compassionate to all his creatures.
R.

3. All your creatures shall thank you,
O Lord
and your friends shall repeat their
blessing.
They shall speak of the glory of
your reign
and declare your might, O God. R.

4. The Lord is faithful in all his words
and loving in all his deeds.
The Lord supports all who fall
and raises all who are bowed down.
R.

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
May this oblation dedicated to your
name purify us, O Lord,
and day by day bring our conduct
closer to the life of heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

The mystery of faith
We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.

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.

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.

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

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER III
Preface: Sunday Ord Time: 1

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,
through Christ our Lord.
For through his Paschal Mystery,
he accomplished the marvellous deed,
by which he has freed us from the
yoke of sin and death,
summoning us to the glory of being
now called a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for
your own possession, to proclaim
everywhere your mighty works, for
you have called us out of darkness
into your own wonderful light.
And so, with Angels and Archangels,
with Thrones and Dominions,
and with all the hosts and Powers of
heaven, we sing the hymn of your
glory, as without end we acclaim:

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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.

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.

Communion Rite

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COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ps 33: 9
Taste and see that the Lord is
good; blessed the man who seeks
refuge in him.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Grant, we pray, O Lord, that, having
been replenished by such great gifts,
we may gain the prize of salvation
and never cease to praise you.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

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 pris’ners that
they are pris’ners no more,
tell 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.

Just as the Father sent me,
so I am sending you out to be
my witnesses throughout the world,
the whole of the world.

R: God bids us welcome to his House
And He invites us to His Feast
Day of great joy and happiness, Alleluia!

Great was my joy when I was told
Let us approach to God’s abode
That’s in the City of the Lord. R.

Let us approach unto the Feast
To which the Lord invites us all
And eat the bread which gives us life. R.

Christ is the Sun which brings the dawn
He is the Light of all the world
Setting us free from death and sin. R.

Christ is alive, with joy we sing
We celebrate our Risen Lord
Praising the glory of His name. R.

The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.

Bow for the blessing No13 – short silence
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 commandments,
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 forever.
Amen.

Go forth, the Mass is ended.
Thanks be to God.

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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.

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.

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, Son of the Father,
you have come as our King,
but humble and riding a donkey.
You invite us to come to you.
By the power and nourishment of this
communion make me like you,
gentle and humble in heart.
Keep me from being bad-tempered or
harsh,
especially at home, or with those in
my care.
Jesus, meek and humble of heart,
make my heart like unto yours.