ARCHDIOCESE OF PALO

ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY

PARISH
Tanauan, Leyte

ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY PARISH

Tanauan, Leyte
6502
COMMENTATOR : Before we begin with the ceremony, may we request the
photographers not to take pictures during the Mass to
maintain the solemnity of the occasion.
PROFESSIONAL : (FIRST COMMUNICANTS march in, each with a
lighted candle)
ENTRANCE HYMN
DIALOGUE : OPENING CEREMONY (The communicants standing
at their respective places.)
COMMENTATOR : Parents of the communicants are requested to get hold of
their folders to maintain continuity of response.
As soon as the communicants are all in their respective places, they’ll start to recite
the following:
CHILDREN : Dear parents/ we have come here with you/ to celebrate
the Holy Eucharist together. / This is the first time/ we,
your children will be permitted/ to receive the body of
Jesus in the Mass. / Together with you/ we shall eat the
body of Jesus/ the Living Bread. / We will be united/ with
Jesus, our Lord.
PARENTS : Dear friends/ we all wish to share in the joy of our
children. / We want to celebrate this Eucharist with you
and with our children/ to strengthen our faith in God, who
help support the life of faith of our children.
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ACT OF CONTRITION
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all
my sins because I dread the loss of Heaven and the pains of hell. But most of all,
because they offended thee, my God, who art all good and deserving of all my
love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance
and to amend my life. Amen.
PRAYER BEFORE CONFESSION
Come, Holy Spirit, enlighten my mind that I may clearly know my sins.
Move my heart that I may be sincerely sorry for them, honestly confess them and
firmly resolve to amend my life. Spirit of Wisdom, grant me to see the malice of
sin and my ingratitude toward you, the all-loving God, Spirit of Fortitude, help me
to make whatever sacrifice is needed to avoid sin in the future. Amen.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Almighty and Merciful God, whose mercy is boundless and everlasting
and of whose goodness the riches are infinite. I thank you because you have so
graciously pardoned all my sins and restored your heavenly favor. I am awed by
your divine compassion and the incomprehensible love for your Son, which has led
him to institute so gentle and remedy for sins. In union with all the gratitude that
has never ascended to you from truly penitent hearts, I proclaim your merciful
praises on behalf of all Heaven, on earth and in purgatory, for ever and ever.
Amen.
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CHILDREN’S PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
CHILDREN : God, our Father, / we praise and thank you/ for this
beautiful day. / Thank you for giving us our parents, / our
 brothers/ and sisters, / our relatives and friends. / Thank Today through the help of your parents, teachers, priests,
you for giving us our school/ and our understanding you have learned to understand the Eucharist better, and to
teachers. / But most especially, / thank you for the body take part in the celebration. Today, Jesus invites you for
and blood/ of your son, Jesus Christ, / whom we have the first time to his Holy Table. You will eat the Bread of
received for the first time today. / We praise and thank Life. With whole heart give thanks to God for this
you, o Lord/ now and forever. Amen. wonderful day. Now, children, today I would like to ask
you the following questions.
PARENT’S PRAYER
Who is truly present in the sacred host?
PARENTS : O, Lord with joyful hearts, we offer you your children.
We beseech you to help them always. We know that there CHILDREN : Jesus, the Son of God.
is much evil in the world, that is why Lord, we pray to
PRIEST : What do you ask of Jesus?
you, keep our children pure and in your love. Let us pray
to the Lord. CHILDREN : We ask to receive Him/ as our spiritual food/ on our way
to Heaven.
ALL : Lord, hear our prayer.
PRIEST : What will Jesus do for you?
PARENTS : O, Lord, we want our children to live up to the dignity of
their Christian calling. Let them serve you with generosity CHILDREN : He will make us strong/ obedient/ and joyful members of
all the days of their lives. O, Lord, we pray to you, keep his great family.
our children loyal in their service. Let us pray to the Lord.
PRIEST : Why does Jesus invite you to eat his Living Bread, in
ALL : Lord, hear our prayers. Holy Communion?
CHILDREN : Because Jesus loves us/ He wants us to be united with
Him/ and He wants us to live as He did, / loving God and
loving our neighbor.

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PRIEST ; Therefore, if you want to live as true children of God,
PRIEST : Dear children, few days after you were born you were love and serve Him with all your hearts, and love your
brought to church for baptism. That was your second neighbor as you love yourselves.
birthday, a day greater than the first one, because in
And now, we are ready to celebrate the Holy Eucharist
baptism you were born as a children of our father in
together. We shall thank our Heavenly Father for all that
heaven.
He has done and will do for us.
COMMENTATOR : Children, you may blow your candles now and put them ALL : Amen.
down. (Let us please all stand for the Opening Hymn)
PRIEST : May the Almighty God bless you, the Father, the Son
INTRODUCTORY RITES - (Everybody sings the Entrance Song) and the Holy Spirit.
PRIEST : In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the ALL : Amen.
Holy Spirit.
PRIEST : The mass is ended, go in peace.
ALL : Amen.
ALL : Thanks be to God.
PRIEST : The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you always.
CLOSING HYMN – (Pupils remain seated for picture taking.)
ALL : And with your Spirit.
PRIEST : My brothers and sisters, to prepare ourselves to celebrate
the Sacred Mystery, let us call to mind our sins.
After a brief silence, all will say:
ALL : I confess/ to Almighty God, / and to you/ my brothers
and sisters, / that I have sinned/ through my own fault/ in
my thoughts/ and in my words/ in what I have done, / and
in what, / I have failed to do, / and I ask the blessed
Mary, / ever virgin, / all the angels and saints, / and to you
my brothers and sisters, / to pray for me, / to the Lord our 16
God.
: For ourselves/ give us dear Lord, your special blessings/
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never forget this day of grace. / With Mary, our loving
PRIEST : Born of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the son of God Mother, we thank you/ dear Jesus/ Amen.
redeemed mankind may he enrich you with his blessings.
PARENT’S PRAYER
ALL : Amen.
COMMENTATOR : Parents of the communicants will stand for the Parent’s
PRIEST : You received the author of life through Mary, may you prayer.
always rejoice in her loving care.
AFTER PARENT’S PRAYER
ALL : Amen.
COMMENTATOR : Please stand.
PRIEST : You have come to rejoice at Mary’s feast, may you be
filled with joys of the Spirit and the gifts of your eternal PRIEST : (Bless the Certificates.)
home.
CONCLUDING RITES
COMMENTATOR : Please stand. PRIEST : Let us pray. Father, you prepared the Virgin Mary to be
the worthy mother of your Son. You let her share
PRIEST : Let us pray. Lord our God, in your love, you chose the
beforehand in the salvation Christ would bring by his
Virgin Mary and kept her free from sin, and may this
death, and kept her sinless from the first moment of her
sacrament of your love free us from our sins. Grant this
conception. Help us by her prayers to live in your
through Christ our Lord.
presence without sin. We ask this through our Lord Jesus
ALL : Amen. Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.

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ALL : Amen.
PRIEST : May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our
sins, and bring us to everlasting life. COMMENTATOR : Please be seated and listen to the word of God.

ALL : Amen.
LORD HAVE MERCY (To be sung) LITURGY OF THE WORD

PRIEST : Glory to God in the Highest. (Optional)  FIRST READING (Thanks be to God)
 RESPONSORIAL PSALM
ALL : And peace to His people on earth/ Lord God/ Heavenly
 SECOND READING
King/ Almighty God and Father,/ we worship you/ we
give you thanks/ we praise you for your glory / Jesus SECOND READER : The word of the Lord. (Thanks be to God)
Christ/ only Son of the Father/ Lord God/ Lamb of God/
you take away the sins of the world/ have mercy on us/ COMMENTATOR : Please all stand to honor the Holy Gospel.
You are seated at the right hand of the Father/ receive our
prayer,/ For you alone are the Holy one / You alone are SING ALLELUIA
the Lord/ You alone are the Most High Jesus Christ with GOSPEL READING By the Priest.
the Holy Spirit/ in the glory of God the Father / Amen.
PRIEST : The Lord be with you.
ALL : And with your Spirit. Thank you, Jesus for this beautiful day/ Jesus, thank you, for those who are
present here today/ for my parents/ brothers and sisters/ priests/ teachers/
PRIEST : A reading with the Holy Gospel according to St.
sisters and friends. / Thank you, Jesus, for you share with me/ your life/
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and your love/ in the Holy Communion.
ALL : Glory to you, O Lord.
Thank you Jesus, for you are with me/
PRIEST : This is the Gospel of the Lord. Jesus, you are my Guest, I welcome you/
Jesus, you are my God, I adore you/
ALL : Praise to you, O Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus, you are my Brother, I love you/
COMMENTATOR : Please be seated for the Homily. Jesus, you are my Leader, I follow you. /
Jesus, you are my friend, I love you/
Jesus, you are my Good Shepherd, I run to you/
Jesus, you are my Master, I obey you/
Jesus, you are my King, I trust you.

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DURING COMMUNION
COMMENTATOR : Communicants, please pick up your candles.
Parents of communicants are requested to join
with their children in receiving the Holy
Communion. Communion is one at a time. We are
requesting the Knights of the Altar assigned to
light the candles.
ALL : For the Kingdom, the power and the glory are yours,
now and forever.
PRIEST : Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your Apostles. I leave you
peace, my peace I give you. Look at not on our sins, but
on the faith of your Church and grant us the peace and
unity of your Kingdom, where you live forever and ever.
ALL : Amen.
PRIEST : The peace of the Lord be with you always.

AFTER COMMUNION ALL : And with your spirit.

COMMENTATOR : Communicants please pick up your candles and PRIEST : Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
stand for the Thanksgiving Prayer. We are ALL : (Giving the sign of peace)
requesting the Knights of the altar assigned to
light the candles. LAMB OF GOD (To be sung)

(Thanksgiving prayer of the communicants.) COMMENTATOR : Please kneel.

THANKSGIVING PRAYER PRIEST : This is Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins
of the world, happy are those who are called to his supper.
ALL : Lord, I am not worthy that you should come and enter PRIEST : Do you renounce all his works and empty
my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be promises?
healed.
CHILDREN : We do renounce them.
PRIEST : Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty
Creator of Heaven and earth?
CHILDREN : We do believe.

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PRIEST : Do you believe in Jesus Christ, the Bread of Life
whom will receive in Holy Communion?
HOMILY (Priest gives the Homily)
CHILDREN : We do believe.
After the Homily, the children will light their candles.
PRIEST : Do you believe in the Holy Spirit and life
COMMENTATOR : Communicants, please pick up your candles and
everlasting?
stand for the Renewal of Baptismal Vows. We are
requesting the Knights of the Altar assigned to CHILDREN : We do believe.
light the candles.
PRIEST : Do you believe in the Holy Catholic Church.
RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL VOWS
CHILDREN : We do believe.
PRIEST : Dear children, you are going to renew your
PRIEST : This is our faith, the faith that we received in
baptismal promises. On the day your Baptism, the
baptism. And may the Almighty God help you
priest asked you. "Do you renounce Satan? Do
keep your promises faithfully unto life
you promise to follow Christ? You were then too
everlasting.
small to answer for yourself, Instead, your parents
and godparents answered for you. Today, Mother CHILDREN : Amen.
church will ask you the same questions, and this
time you will make the promises yourselves. With Communicants, please blow your candles and put them down.
your whole hearts and minds be then ready to COMMENTATOR : Please al stand for the Apostles Creed.
answer.”
PRIEST : I believe in God…
PRIEST : Do you renounce Satan?
ALL : I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of
CHILDREN : We do renounce him. heaven and earth. And in Jesus Christ, His only
 Son, our Lord; Who was conceived by the Holy
Spirit; Born of the Virgin Mary; Suffered under
Pontius Pilate; Was crucified, dead and buried; He
descended into Hell; The third day He rose again
from the dead; He ascended into heaven; And
sitteth on the right hand of God the Father
Almighty; From thence He shall come to judge 12
the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy
Spirit; The Holy Christian Purest of Virgins, she was to bring forth your son,
the innocent lamb who takes away the sins. You
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PRIEST : In memory of his death and resurrection, we offer you, you and our pattern of holiness.
Father, this life-giving bread, this saving cup. We thank you for counting us In our joys we sing to your Glory with all the choirs of angels:
worthy to stand in your presence and serve you, may all of us who share in the
body and blood of Christ be brought together in the unity by the Holy Spirit. Lord ALL : Holy, Holy, Holy (To be sung)
remember your Church throughout the world; make us grow in love, together with
COMMENTATOR : Please kneel.
Francis our Pope, John Du our Bishop, and all the clergy. Remember our brothers
and sisters who have gone to their rest in the hope rising again, bring them and all PRIEST : Lord, You are Holy indeed, the fountain of all
the departed into the light of your presence. Have mercy on us all, make us worthy holiness. Let your Spirit come upon these gifts to
to share eternal life with Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, with the apostles, and make them holy, so that they may become for us
with all the saints who have done your will throughout the ages. May we praise the body and blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
you in union with them, and give you glory through your Son Jesus Christ. Before He was given up to death He freely
accepted, He took the bread, gave it to his
Through him, with him, in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor
disciples, and said. "Take this all of you, and eat
is yours, Almighty Father, forever and ever.
it. This is my body which will be given up for
ALL : Amen. you."

COMMUNION RITES When supper was ended, He took the cup. Again
he gave you thanks and praise, gave the cup to His
PRIEST : Let us pray with confidence to the Father in the disciples and said. "Take this, all of you, and
words our Savior taught us. drink from it. This is the cup of my blood, the
ALL : Our Father (To be sung) blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will
be shed for you and for all so that sins may be
PRIEST : Deliver us Lord, from every evil, and grant us forgiven. Do this in memory of me.
peace in our day. In your mercy keep us free from
sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in Let us proclaim the Mystery of Faith.
joyful hope for the coming of our Savior Jesus COMMENTATOR : Please stand.
Christ.
ALL : Christ has died (To be sung)
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Church, the Communion of Saints; The
Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body;
and the life everlasting. Amen.
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
PRIEST : Faith and love brought us here together and the
Lord Jesus is coming to us. Let us pray through
Him to the Father, who cares for all his children.
And let us say to Him, "LORD, HEAR OUR
PRAYER.”
LEADER : For all who take part in this Eucharistic
Celebration, that they acquire a sense of
responsibility for the poor and the socially weak,
the afflicted and the sick. Let us pray to the Lord.
(Lord, hear our prayer)
: For parents, that they show more awareness of
their role in building the Church of Christ by
giving their children the needed religious training.
Let us pray to the Lord. (Lord, hear our prayer.)
: For all of us here present that we may fully
understand our duty to share in the mission of the
Church. Let us pray to the Lord. (Lord, hear our
prayer.)
: For our Father and Mother, for teachers, for our
priests and for all those who have done their best
to make this happy day for us, that they may go on
helping us lave one another more. Let us pray to
the Lord. (Lord, hear our prayer.)
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: That all of us who will partake of the Body of
Jesus at this banquet, may be worthy of this great
testament of his Love. Let us pray to the Lord.
(Lord, hear our prayer)
PRIEST : Almighty God, you have called us here together
as one family. Listen to our prayers. Help us to
live more and more for you and to do everything
with your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
COMMENTATOR : Amen. (Please be seated for the offertory)
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
(Offertory Hymn and Procession)
PRIEST : Blessed are you Lord, God of all Creation.
Through your goodness we have this bread to
offer, which earth has given human hands have
made. It will become for life.
ALL : Blessed be God forever.
PRIEST : Blessed are you Lord, God of all Creation.
Through your goodness we have this wine to
offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands.
It will become our spiritual drink.
ALL : Blessed be God forever.
PRIEST : Pray brethren, that our sacrifice may be
acceptable to God. The Father Almighty.
ALL : May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands
for the praise and the glory of his name, for our
good and the good of all His church.
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COMMENTATOR : Please stand.
PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS
PRIEST : Lord accept this sacrifice on the feast of the
sinless Virgin Mary. You kept her free
from sin from the first moment of her life.
Help us by her prayers and free us from
our sins.
We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
ALL : Amen.
PRIEST : The Lord be with you.
ALL : And with you 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, all powerful and ever living God, we do
well always and everywhere to give you thanks.
You allowed no stain of Adam's sin to touch the
Virgin Mary. Full of grace, she was to be worthy
mother of your Son, your sign of favor to the
Church at its beginning, and the promise of its
perfection as the bride of Christ, radiant in beauty.

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