Call to Worship

While making the sign of the cross:

God, come to our assistance.
Lord, make haste to help us.

Glory to the Father and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning,
is now and will be forever. Amen. Alleluia!

Hymn

Phos Hilaron (1)

O radiant light, O sun divine,
Of God the Father's deathless face,
O image of the light sublime
That fills the heav'nly dwelling place.

O Son of God, the source of life,
Praise is your due by night and day.
Our happy lips must raise the strain
of your esteem'd and splendid name.

Lord Jesus Christ, as daylight fades,
As shine the lights of eventide,
We praise the Father with the Son,
The Spirit blest and with them one.

PSALMODY
Psalm 141:1-9

Ant. O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like incense, my hands like an evening offering.

O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like
incense, my hands like an evening offering.

Lord, I am calling: hasten to help me.
Listen to me as I cry to you.
Let my prayer rise before you like incense,
my hands like an evening offering.

O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like
incense, my hands like an evening offering.

Lord, set a guard at my mouth,
keep watch at the gate of my lips.
Let my heart not turn to things that are wrong,
to sharing the evil deeds done by the sinful.
No, I will never taste their delights.

O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like
incense, my hands like an evening offering.

The good may reprove me,
In kindness chastise me,
but the wicked shall never anoint my head.
Every day, I counter their malice with prayer.

O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like
incense, my hands like an evening offering.

To you, Lord my God, my eyes are turned:
In you I take refuge; do not forsake me.
Keep me safe from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those who do evil.

O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like
incense, my hands like an evening offering.

Praise to the Father, praise to the Son,
all praise to the life giving Spirit.
As it was, is now, and shall always be
for ages unending. Amen.

Ant. O Lord, let my prayer rise before you like incense, my hands like an evening offering. (2)

Psalm Prayer

Lord,
From the rising of the sun to its setting,
Your name is worthy of all praise.
Let our prayer come like incense before you.
May the lifting up of our hands
be as an evening sacrifice
acceptable to you,
Lord, our God.

Psalm 147

Ant. The Lord brings peace to His Church and fills us with the finest wheat.

O praise the lord, Jerusalem!
Zion, praise your God!

For God has strengthened the bars of your gates,
and has blessed the children within you:
established peace on your borders,
and feeds you with finest wheat.

God sends out the word to the earth
and swiftly runs the command.
God showers down snow white as wool
and scatters hoar-frost like ashes.

God hurls down hailstones like crumbs.
The waters are frozen at his touch.
God sends forth the word and it melts them:
at the breath of the Lord’s mouth the waters flow.

God makes a word known to Jacob,
to Israel laws and decrees.
God has not dealt thus with other nations
and has not taught them his decrees.

Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning
is now and will be forever. Amen.

Ant. The Lord brings peace to His Church and fills us with the finest wheat.

CANTICLE
Revelation 11:17-18; 12:10b-12a

Ant. Truly I say to you: Moses did not give you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven, alleluia.

We praise you, the Lord God Almighty,
Who is and who was.
You have assumed your great power;
You have begun your reign.

The nations have raged in anger, but then came your day of wrath
and the moment to judge the dead: the time to reward your servants the prophets
and the holy ones who revere you,
the great and the small alike.

Now have salvation and power come,
the reign of our God and the authority of the Anointed One.
For the accuser of our brothers and sisters is cast out,
who night and day accused them before God.

They defeated him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony;
love for life did not deter them from death.
So rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell therein!

Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit.
As it was in the beginning
is now and will be forever. Amen.

Ant. Truly I say to you: Moses did not give you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven, alleluia.

Reading

A Reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians
(1 Corinthians 10:16-17)

Is not the cup of blessing we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread we break a sharing in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, many though we are, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

Take a few moments to reflect on the reading.

Responsory

He gave them bread from heaven, alleluia, alleluia.
He gave them bread from heaven, alleluia, alleluia.
Man has eaten the bread of angels,
alleluia, alleluia.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
He gave them bread from heaven, alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Canticle
Canticle of Mary

The Magnificat (3)
Luke 1:46-55
Ant. How kind and gentle you are, O Lord. You showed your goodness to your children by giving them bread from heaven. You filled the hungry with good things, and the rich you sent away empty.

While making the sign of the cross:

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
My spirit sings to God, my saving God,
Who on this day, above all others, favored me
And raised me up, a light for all to see.

Through me, great deeds will God make manifest
And all the earth will come to call me blest.
Unbounded love and mercy sure will I proclaim
For all who know and praise God’s holy name.

God’s mighty arm, protector of the just,
Will guard the weak and raise them from the dust.
But mighty kings will swiftly fall from thrones corrupt.
The strong brought low, the lowly lifted up.

Soon will the poor and hungry of the earth
Be richly blest, be given greater worth.
And Israel, as once foretold to Abraham,
Will live in peace throughout the promised land.

All glory be to God, Creator blest,
To Jesus Christ, God’s love made manifest,
And to the Holy Spirit, gentle Comforter,
All glory be, both now and evermore.

Ant. How kind and gentle you are, O Lord. You showed your goodness to your children by giving them bread from heaven. You filled the hungry with good things, and the rich you sent away empty.

Intercessions

Christ invites all to the supper in which he gives his body and blood for the life of the world. Let us ask him:
Christ Jesus, fill us with light and truth.

Christ, Son of the living God, you commanded that this Thanksgiving meal be done in memory of you, and enrich your Church through the faithful celebration of these mysteries.
Christ Jesus, fill us with light and truth.

Christ, eternal priest of the Most High, you have commanded your priests to offer your sacraments; may they help them to exemplify in their lives the meaning of the sacred mysteries which they celebrate.
Christ Jesus, fill us with light and truth.

Christ, bread from heaven, you form one body out of all who partake of the one bread; refresh all who believe in you with harmony and peace.
Christ Jesus, fill us with light and truth.

Christ, through your bread, you offer the remedy for immortality and the pledge of future resurrection; restore health to the sick and living hope to sinners.
Christ Jesus, fill us with light and truth.

For the sick who have asked us to accompany them with our prayers, that they may experience your merciful and healing touch today.

Please pray aloud the names of those who are sick or in need of healing.

Christ Jesus, fill us with light and truth.

Christ, our king who is to come, you commanded that the mysteries which proclaim your death be celebrated until you return, grant that all who die in you may share in your resurrection.
Christ Jesus, fill us with light and truth. (4)

The Lord’s Prayer

And now let us pray with confidence as Christ our Lord asked:
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.

Closing Prayer

Lord Jesus Christ,
We worship you, living among us
in the sacrament of your body and blood.
May we offer to our Father in heaven
a solemn pledge of undivided love.
May we offer to our brothers and sisters
a life poured out in loving service of that kingdom
where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

Blessing

While making the sign of the cross:

May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and
bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.

Salve Regina (5)

Salve, Regina,
Mater misericordiæ,
vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevæ,
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos
misericordes oculos ad nos converte;
Et Jesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
Pray for us.
Sant’Angelo,
Pray for us.

Let us spend this evening in peace.
Thanks be to God.


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1. Phos Hilaron, 3rd cent.
   Translation: William George Storey.
   Tune: Jesu Dulcis Memoria.
   Vocals: The Carmelites.

2. Text: Based on Psalm 141:1-5, 8-9, Doxology; Paul Inwood, b. 1947.
   Music: Paul Inwood. Text and Music;
   Copyright 1984, 1985, Paul Inwood.
   Vocals: Steven Begert-Clark and The Carmelites.

3. Lyrics Based on Luke 1:68-79; Owen Alstott, b. 1947, copyright 1993.
   Music: Bernadette Farrell, b. 1957, copyright 1993.
   Vocals: Steven Begert-Clark.
   Piano:Benjamin Aguilar, O.Carm.
   Bells: Julian Pardo.

4. Text: “Intercessions.” James A. Wilde, copyright 1996.
   Music: Michael Joncas, copyright 1996.
   Vocals: The Carmelites.

5. Text: Latin, attr. to Hermannus Contractus, 1013-1054; English, Paul F. Ford,
   Music: Chant, Mode V.
   Vocals: The Carmelites, including Matthew Gummess, O.Carm., Carl Markelz, O.Carm., Ryan J. Resurreccion, O. Carm., Benjamín Aguilar, O.Carm.