CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST

Thanksgiving Mass for the End of the s/y 2017-2018

Ateneo de Naga University Grade School
April 5, 2018

INTRODUCTORY RITES

Today we are gathered as a community to give thanks to

the Lord our God for another fruitful school year. We
have a lot to be thankful for, particularly for our first
batch of Elementary graduates. We look forward for the
next school years to come and for the memories we will
make as we all grow together in the Ateneo de Naga
Grade School.

Now, with deep gratitude to the Lord, who bestowed us all

these blessings that we obtain today, let us honor Him as we
rise and sing together our hymn of praise, with our celebrant,
Reverend Father Angelo “Boboy” Silerio of the Society of
Jesus.

Commentator: Let us all join in singing the opening hymn.

Processional

Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen.

Priest: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the

love of God, and the communion of the Holy
Spirit be with you all.

All: And with your spirit.

PENITENTIAL RITE

Priest: As we prepare to celebrate

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 the mystery of Christ’s love,
let us acknowledge our failures and ask the
Lord for pardon and strength.

Priest: I confess to almighty God

ALL: 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, 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.

Priest: May almighty God, have mercy on us,

Forgive us our sins,
And bring us to everlasting life.

ALL: Amen.

Kyrie (sung)

*GLORIA

OPENING PRAYER

Priest: O God, who have united the many nations in

confessing your name, grant that those reborn in
the font of Baptism may be one in the faith of
their hearts and the homage of their deeds.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who
lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

All: Amen.

All be seated for the Liturgy of the Word.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

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First Reading

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles: Acts 3:11-26

As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John,
all the people hurried in amazement toward them
in the portico called "Solomon's Portico."
When Peter saw this, he addressed the people,
"You children of Israel, why are you amazed at this,
and why do you look so intently at us
as if we had made him walk by our own power or piety?
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus
whom you handed over and denied in Pilate's presence,
when he had decided to release him.
You denied the Holy and Righteous One
and asked that a murderer be released to you.
The author of life you put to death,
but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.
And by faith in his name,
this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong,
and the faith that comes through it
has given him this perfect health,
in the presence of all of you.
Now I know, brothers and sisters,
that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;
but God has thus brought to fulfillment
what he had announced beforehand
through the mouth of all the prophets,
that his Christ would suffer.
Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,
and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment
and send you the Christ already appointed for you, Jesus,
whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration
of which God spoke through the mouth
of his holy prophets from of old.

For Moses said:

A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.
Everyone who does not listen to that prophet
will be cut off from the people. 

"Moreover, all the prophets who spoke,

from Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days.
You are the children of the prophets

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and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors
when he said to Abraham,
In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you
by turning each of you from your evil ways."

The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (Ps 105:4-5,6-7,8-9)

Reader: Let our response be: “O Lord, our God, how

wonderful your name in all the earth!”

All: “O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in

all the earth!”

Reader: O LORD, our Lord,

how glorious is your name over all the earth!
What is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the son of man that you should care for him?

R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

You have made him little less than the angels,

and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting all things under his feet.

R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

All sheep and oxen,

yes, and the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.

R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

Commentator: All stand for the gospel acclamation

(Alleluia)

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

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Priest: A reading from the Holy Gospel according
to John

All: Glory to you O Lord.

Gospel Luke 24: 35 - 48

A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to Luke

The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way,
and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.

While they were still speaking about this,

he stood in their midst and said to them,
"Peace be with you."
But they were startled and terrified
and thought that they were seeing a ghost.
Then he said to them, "Why are you troubled?
And why do questions arise in your hearts?
Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.
Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones
as you can see I have."
And as he said this,
he showed them his hands and his feet.
While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed,
he asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?"
They gave him a piece of baked fish;
he took it and ate it in front of them.

He said to them,
"These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled."
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them,
"Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise from the dead on the third day
and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be preached in his name
to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things."

The Gospel of the Lord

All: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ

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Be seated quietly for the homily

HOMILY

Commentator: All stand for the Prayers of the Faithful.

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

Priest: The merciful love of our Father in heaven
is perfectly revealed in and through the
person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us
ask our Lord Jesus to listen to our needs.
After each petition, our response will be:
“Lord hear our prayer.”

ALL: Lord hear our prayer

Reader: For the Holy Catholic Church, for Francis our

pope, Rolando our bishop, and for all bishops,
priests, and deacons, we pray to the Lord: 

ALL: Lord Hear Our Prayer

Reader: For the leaders of the world, that they would

work together to promote the good of all, we
pray to the Lord:

ALL: Lord Hear Our Prayer

Reader: For our school community: that we would

continue to form the minds and hearts of all
students, allowing them to grow in faith and
intellect, we pray to the Lord:

ALL: Lord Hear Our Prayer

Reader: For our pupils: that they would excel in

everything they do, and that they would carry
the love of Christ with them always, we pray to
the Lord: 

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ALL: Lord Hear Our Prayer

Reader: In thanksgiving for those who have helped

make our school year successful: for all
parents, relatives, teachers, school staff,
clergy, and community members, we pray to
the Lord: 

ALL: Lord Hear Our Prayer

Reader: For all those who have died, especially the

departed alumni of our school, we pray to the
Lord:

ALL: Lord Hear Our Prayer

Priest: Merciful Father,

in and through your Son, Jesus Christ,
you give our people the grace of
conversion
and hope for a new and better life.

Hear our prayers today

that our faith in you
may be transformed
by the love and obedience of your Son.

We ask this through Christ, our Lord.

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Commentator : Please be seated for the preparation of

the gifts.

PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS (Offertory)

Commentator: Stand quietly.

Priest: Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters), that

my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable
to God, the almighty Father.
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All: 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.

Prayer over the Gifts

Priest: Graciously be pleased, O Lord,

to accept the sacrificial gifts we offer
joyfully, both for those who have been
reborn and in hope of your increased help
from heaven.
Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

Preface

Priest: The Lord be with you.

All: And with your spirit.

Priest: Lift up your hearts.

All: We lift them up to the Lord.

Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

All: It is right and just.

Priest: Father, 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 Jesus
Christ our Lord.

He ascended above all the heavens, and

from his throne at your right hand poured
into the hearts of your adopted children
the Holy Spirit of your promise.

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 With steadfast love we sing your unending
praise; we join with the hosts of heaven in
their triumphant song:

Sanctus (sung)

All kneel quietly

CANON II

Priest: You are indeed Holy, O Lord, the fount of all

holiness. 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:

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.

Priest: The mystery of faith.

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All: We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.

Priest: 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 Francis,
our Pope and Rolando, our Bishop 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 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.

Priest: Through him, and with him, and in him, O

God, almighty Father, in the unity of the
Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, for
ever and ever.

All: Great Amen… ( to be sung)

Commentator: All stand quietly

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COMMUNION RITE

Priest: At the savior’s command and formed by the

Divine teaching we dare to say:

Our Father (Sung)

Priest: 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 Savior, Jesus Christ.

All: For the kingdom, the power and the glory are
yours now and forever.

SIGN OF PEACE

Priest: 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.

All: Amen.

Priest: The peace of the Lord be with you always.

All: And with your spirit.

Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

Peace be with you…

(Agnus Dei) Lamb of God

All kneel quietly

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Priest: 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.

All: 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

All stand quietly

Priest: Let us pray… Nourished by your saving

gifts, we beseech your mercy, Lord, that by
this same sacrament, with which you feed
us in the present age, you may make us
partakers of life eternal. Through Christ
our Lord.

All: Amen.

SOLEMN BLESSING OVER THE PEOPLE

Priest: Bow your heads and pray for God’s blessing.

The Father of mercies has given us

an example of unselfish love
in the sufferings of his only Son.
Through your service of God and neighbor
may you receive his countless blessings.

All: Amen.

Priest: You believe that by his dying

Christ destroyed death forever.
May he give you everlasting life.

All: Amen.

Priest: He humbled himself for our sakes.

May you follow his example
and share in his resurrection.
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All: Amen.

Priest: May almighty God bless you,

the Father, and the Son +
and the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen.

Priest: Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

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