LITURGICAL RECEPTION OF THE REMAINS OF

╬ CRISANTO AMAZA
23 October 2023

Commentator: ¡Good afternoon my dear brothers and sisters in Christ!

We behold today the mortal remains of +CRISANTO Let us pray to

God that he may be more worthy to share the rewards of God’s
kingdom and may he attain eternal rest.

ENTRANCE HYMN

Presider: In the name of the + Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit.

People: Amen.

GREETING

Presider: Praised be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation! He
comforts us in all our afflictions and thus enables us to
comfort those who are in trouble,
with the same consolation we have received from him

OPENING PRAYER

Presider: Let us pray…

Father,
God of all consolation,
in your unending love and mercy for us
you turn the darkness of death

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 into the dawn of new life.

Show compassion to your people in their sorrow.

Be our refuge and our strength
to lift us from the darkness of this grief
to the peace and light of your presence.

Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, by dying for us,

conquered death and by rising again, restored life.
May we then go forward eagerly to meet him, and after
our life on earth be reunited with our brothers and
sisters where every tear will be wiped away.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

GOSPEL Jn 6: 37-40
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John

Jesus said to the crowd: “All that the Father gives me shall come to
me; no one who comes will I ever reject, because it is not to do my own
will that I have come down from heaven, but to do the will of him who
sent me. It is the will of him who sent me that I should lose nothing of
what he has given me; rather, that I should raise it up on the last day.
Indeed, this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks upon the
Son and believes in him shall have eternal life. Him I will raise up on the
last day.”
The Gospel of the Lord.

Short Homily
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GENERAL INTERCESSIONS

Presider: God, the Almighty Father, raised Christ his

Son from the dead; with confidence we ask
him to save his people, living and dead.

LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER

1. Our brother, + CRISANTO was given the promise of eternal life in baptism; Lord give
him communion with your saints forever. We pray.

2. + CRISANTO ate the bread of eternal life, the body of Christ; raise him up, Lord, at the
last day. We pray.

3. We pray for our brothers and sisters, our relatives, for all who were close to us and good
to us; Lord, give them the reward of their goodness. We pray.

4. We pray for all who have died in the hope of rising again; welcome them, Lord, into the
light of your presence. We pray.

5. We pray for all who have gathered here to worship in faith; Lord, make us one in your
kingdom. We pray.

Presider: Lord, Jesus Christ, hear our prayer

for our brother + CRISANTO and for all who have gone
before us
in faith to eternal life.
Free them from all their sins and let them share
in the fullness of salvation in the Kingdom
where you are Lord for ever and ever.

All: Amen.

RESPONSORY FOR THE DEAD

V. Lord, in your steadfast love, give + CRISANTO eternal rest.

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R. Lord, in your steadfast love, give + CRISANTO eternal rest.

V. You will come again to judge the living and the dead.

R. Give + CRISANTO eternal rest.

V. Glory to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

R. Lord, in your steadfast love, give + CRISANTO eternal rest.

Intercessions:

By your coming as man, All: Lord, save your people

By your birth,
By your baptism and fasting,
By your suffering and cross,
By your death and burial,
By your rising to new life,
By your return in glory to the Father,
By your gift of the Holy Spirit,
By your coming again in glory,

Our Father...

(The presider and the other priest present will sprinkle with the holy water the mortal remain and an appropriate
song will be sung)

Presider: Into your hands, O Lord,

we humbly entrust our brother + CRISANTO
In this life you embraced him/her with your tender love;
deliver him/her now from every evil
and bid him/her enter eternal rest.
The old order has passed away:
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welcome him then into paradise,
where there will be no sorrow, no weeping nor pain,
but the fullness of peace and joy
with your Son and the Holy Spirit
for ever and ever.
All: Amen.

FINAL BLESSING

Presider: May the love of God and the peace of the Lord Jesus
Christ bless and console us and gently wipe every tear
from our eyes: in the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.

Presider: Go in peace.

All: Thanks be to God.

FINAL HYMN