COMMENTATOR’S GUIDE FOR THE WEEKDAY/SATURDAY MASS

DURING LENT
(with TECH MARKS IN RED)

(> 10 minutes before the Mass, Play WAITING FOR FATHER/ INSTRUMENTAL SONG.
> 5 minutes before the Mass, sharescreen ORATIO IMPERATA to be led by Commentator.)

ORATIO IMPERATA AGAINST COVID-19 (2021)

Merciful and compassionate Father, we come to you in our need to seek your protection against
the COVID-19 virus that has disturbed and even claimed lives.

We ask you now to look upon us with love and by your healing hand, dispel the fear of sickness
and death, restore our hope, and strengthen our faith.

We pray that you guide the people tasked to find cures for this disease and to stem its
transmission.

We thank you for the vaccines developed, made possible by your guiding hands.

Bless our efforts to use these vaccines to end the pandemic in our country.

We pray for our health workers that they may minister to the sick with competence and
compassion.

Grant them health in mind and body, strength in their commitment, protection from the disease.

We pray for those afflicted. May they be restored to health. Protect those who care for them.
Grant eternal rest to those who have died.

Give us the grace in these trying times to work for the good of all and to help those in need. May
our concern and compassion for each other see us through this crisis
And lead us to conversion and holiness.

Grant all these through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son who lives and with you, in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.

We fly to Your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our petition in our necessities,
but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin. Amen.

Our Lady, health of the sick, pray for us.

St. Joseph, pray for us.

St. Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

San Roque, pray for us.

San Lorenzo Ruiz, pray for us.

San Pedro Calungsod, pray for us.

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may not come out after Powerpoint was shared.)

MASS

C: Good afternoon, Brothers and Sisters! Welcome to the Mass for (Open Door
Interactive).
Our Mass Presider is (Fr. JV Acosta - or name of priest). (> Play ENTRANCE SONG)
Let us all stand and sing the Entrance Hymn.

Introductory Rites

P: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
C: Amen.

Greeting

P. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit
be with you all.
C: And with your spirit.

Penitential Act

P: Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins,

and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
(Commentator waits for priest’s cue on which Penitential prayer/s will be used.)

OPTION A
All: 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,
(And, striking their breast, they 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.

P: May almighty God have mercy on us,

forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life.
C: Amen.

P: Lord have mercy.

C: Lord have mercy.

P: Christ have mercy.

C: Christ have mercy.

P: Lord have mercy.

C: Lord have mercy.

OPTION B

(Priest says introductory prayers. People will repeat the response – Lord/Christ, have mercy.)

Collect (Opening Prayer)

P: Let us pray … (Priest prays Collect / Opening Prayer)

C: Amen.

First Reading

L: (Reads from Scripture, after which is said)

The word of the Lord.
C: Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm
L:
C: (see separate file for response)
Gospel Acclamation (to be sung acapella)

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory!

(Verse before the Gospel – see Mass Readings)
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory!

Gospel

P: The Lord be with you.

C: And with your spirit.

P: A reading from the holy Gospel according to N.

C: Glory to you, Lord.

P: (Reads from Scripture then says) The Gospel of the Lord.

C: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Homily

Prayer of the Faithful

(See separate file for response)

Offertory

> Play OFFERTORY SONG after Prayer of the Faithful. Stop the song after priest washes
hands. Commentator does not need to respond “Blessed be God forever” if Offertory Song is
played.)

[P. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation …

C: Blessed be God for ever.]

P: Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters),

That my sacrifice and yours
May be acceptable to God,
The almighty Father.

C: 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.
Then the Priest, with hands extended, says the Prayer over the Offerings, at the end of which
the people acclaim:

C: Amen.

P: The Lord be with you.

C: And with your spirit.

P: Lift up your hearts.

C: We lift them up to the Lord.

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

C: It is right and just.

P. (PREFACE – ends with “and without end we acclaim.”)

C: 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.

Consecration

Memorial Acclamation

P: The mystery of faith.

C: When we eat this bread and drink this cup,
We proclaim your death, O Lord,
Until you come again.

P: 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.
C: Amen

Lord’s Prayer

P: At the Savior’s command

And formed by divine teaching,
We dare to say:
C: 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.

Doxology

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

Sign of Peace

P: 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.
C: Amen.

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

C: And with your spirit.

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

C: Peace be with you.
Breaking of the Bread

C: 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.

P: 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.

C: Lord, I am not worthy

That you should enter under my roof,
But only say the word
And my soul shall be healed.

Act of Spiritual Communion

My Jesus,
I believe that you are truly present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things,
and I desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace you as if you were already there
and unite myself wholly to you. (> Play COMMUNION SONG)
Never permit me to be separated from you.
Amen.

Prayer after Communion

P: Let us pray.
(The Priest, with hands extended, says the Prayer after Communion)
C: Amen.

Blessing

P: The Lord be with you.

C: And with your spirit.
P: May almighty God bless you,
The Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
C: Amen.

Dismissal

P. Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

C: Thanks be to God.

AFTER PATHWAYS CENTRAL LEADER THANKS FR. JV ACOSTA/PRIEST

(> Play LAST SONG)

Notes to Commentator on Zoom:

If priest will pray the responses even after you pray, let him continue. No need for you to pray
aloud so as not to compete with the sound on Zoom.
Mass for Sundays and Solemnities have Gloria, 2nd Reading, and Creed (Apostles’ or Nicene).
Mass during Lent has no Alleluia and Gloria.

Notes to Tech Person:

Cue to play song is timed so that the song will start exactly after Commentator gives last line.
That is why the PLAY button is instructed before the Commentator ends (because there is a 3 to
5 second lag before the music is heard). Music should not be delayed so that the priest will not
proceed with the Mass, thinking there is no music. (Although, for his guidance, priest is also
informed in advance of the parts where songs will be sung.)