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Processional Hymn:

INTRODUCTORY RITES

Priest: In the Name of the Father †, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit
All: Amen!

Greeting

Priest: Grace and peace from God our Father, the Lord Jesus Christ,
and the Holy Spirit be with you all!
All: And with your spirit!

Priest: ---
All: Amen!

***Penitential Act
Priest: Lord have mercy ALL: Lord have mercy
Christ have mercy Christ have mercy
Lord have mercy Lord have mercy

***Gloria

Collect
Priest: O God, who willed that your Word
should take on the reality of human flesh
in the womb of the Virgin Mary,
grant, we pray, that we, who confess our Redeemer to be God and man,
may merit to become partakers even in his divine nature.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
All: Amen

C: Let us now be seated and listen to God’s Word.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

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Reading 1 Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah

(pause)

The Word of the Lord

All: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm

For our responsorial psalm, let our response be..

Reading 2

A reading from the second Letter of Saint Paul to the Hebrews

(pause)

The Word of the Lord

All: Thanks be to God

C: Let us stand for the Holy Gospel

Verse Before the Gospel:

R.

Gospel:

Priest: The Lord be with you

All: And with your spirit.
Priest: A reading from the Holy Gospel According to †
All: Glory † to You O Lord.

The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ

C: Let us now listen to the Homily

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**Homily**

**Creed**
The CREED is said. At the words and was incarnate all genuflect

Prayers of the Faithful:

Priest: Though the faithful obedience of the Blessed Virgin Mary, God takes
flesh among us. The mystery of the incarnation calls us to our loving
Father through the incarnate Son.

Priest: Father of the incarnate Word, we bring our intentions before you, the
fabric of our daily lives, made holy by your Son, our brother in the faith, who
lives and reigns for ever and ever.

All: Amen

C: Let us be seated and prepare for the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

(Offertory song)

**If there will be no song, recite this**

Priest: Blest are you, Lord, God of all creation,

thanks to your goodness this bread we offer:
fruit of the earth, work of our hands,
it will become the bread of life.

C: Blessed be God, forever.

Priest: Blest are you, Lord, God of all creation,

thanks to your goodness this wine we offer:
fruit of the earth, work of our hands,
it will become the cup of life.

C: Blessed be God, forever.

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

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C: (when the priest washes his hands) Please all stand.

Preparation of the Gifts

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

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 Offerings

Priest: Be pleased, almighty God, to accept your Church's offering,

so that she, who is aware that her beginnings lie in the Incarnation of your
Only Begotten Son, may rejoice to celebrate his mysteries on this Solemnity.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

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: 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 the
Virgin Mary heard with faith that the Christ was to be born
among men and for men’s sake
by the overshadowing power of the Holy Spirit. Lovingly she
bore him in her immaculate womb, that the promises to the
children of Israel might come about and the hope of nations be
accomplished beyond all telling.
Through him the host of Angels adores your majesty and rejoices
in your presence for ever. May our voices, we pray, join with
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theirs in one chorus of exultant praise, as we acclaim:
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Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts . . . (sung or said)

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

C: Please kneel.

Great Amen (sung)

C: (if not sung) Amen

Mystery of Faith (sung When We Eat)

R: We proclaim your death O Lord, and profess Your resurrection until You come
again.

Communion Rite
Priest: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say:

**Our Father**

Our Father, Who art in heaven,

Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Priest: Deliver us, Lord… our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Or All: (sung or recited) For the kingdom, and the power, and the glory are Yours
now and forever.
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Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles:

Peace I leave you…
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.

All: Peace be with you.

**Lamb of God**

All: Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world.
Grant us peace.

C: Please kneel.

Priest: Behold the Lamb of God… 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.

Priest: This is the Body of Christ

All: AMEN.

**Act of Spiritual Communion

For those who cannot receive communion, let us together pray the Act of Spiritual
Communion
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My Jesus, I believe that You are in the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things,
and I long for You in my soul. Since I cannot now receive You Sacramentally, come at
least spiritually into my heart. As though You have already come, I embrace You and
unite myself entirely to You; never permit me to be separated from You. Amen

**Communion songs

C: (after all received communion) Please kneel. Prayer for Peace by Pope Francis -
Altogether

Lord God of peace, hear our prayer!

We have tried so many times and over so many years to resolve our conflicts by our
own powers and by the force of our arms. How many moments of hostility and
darkness have we experienced; how much blood has been shed; how many lives have
been shattered; how many hopes have been buried… But our efforts have been in
vain.
Now, Lord, come to our aid! Grant us peace, teach us peace; guide our steps in the
way of peace. Open our eyes and our hearts, and give us the courage to say: "Never
again war!"; "With war everything is lost". Instill in our hearts the courage to take
concrete steps to achieve peace.
Lord, God of Abraham, God of the Prophets, God of Love, you created us and you call
us to live as brothers and sisters. Give us the strength daily to be instruments of peace;
enable us to see everyone who crosses our path as our brother or sister. Make us
sensitive to the plea of our citizens who entreat us to turn our weapons of war into
implements of peace, our trepidation into confident trust, and our quarreling into
forgiveness.
Keep alive within us the flame of hope, so that with patience and perseverance we
may opt for dialogue and reconciliation. In this way may peace triumph at last, and
may the words "division", "hatred" and "war" be banished from the heart of every man
and woman. Lord, defuse the violence of our tongues and our hands. Renew our
hearts and minds, so that the word which always brings us together will be "brother",
and our way of life will always be that of: Shalom, Peace, Salaam! Amen.

C: (after ablution/ priest washed his hands) Please all stand.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

Priest: Confirm in our minds the mysteries of the true faith,

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we pray, O Lord,
so that, confessing that he who was conceived of the Virgin Mary
is true God and true man,
we may, through the saving power of his Resurrection,
merit to attain eternal joy.
Through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen!

SOLEMN BLESSING

Priest: The Lord be with you

All: And with your spirit.

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

(pause)
All: Amen.

Priest: 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.
All: Amen.

Priest: Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God!

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