Week Day Mass Readings

1. Year of Mercy
Mary Mother of
Mercy
Prayer for us

3. Entrance antiphon
All the earth shall bow down
before you, O God, and shall
sing to you, shall sing to
your name, O Most High!

5. …Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy
…Christ, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy
…Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy
Penitential act

7. Almighty ever-living God, who
govern all things,
both in heaven and on earth,
mercifully hear the pleading of
your people and bestow your
peace on our times.
Collect

8. Through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in
the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Collect

10. The First Reading

11. A reading from the second
Book of Samuel 1:1-4,
11-
12,19,23-27
David returned from his rout

12. two days in Ziklag. On the
third day a man came from
the camp where Saul had
been, his garments torn and
earth on his head. When he
came to David, he fell to the

13. ground and did homage.
‘Where do you come from?’
David asked him. ‘I have
escaped from the Israelite
camp’ he said. David said to
him,‘What happened? Tell me

14. He replied, ‘The people have
fled from the battlefield and
many of them have fallen.
Saul and his son Jonathan
are dead too.’
Then David took hold of his

15. garments and tore them, and
all the men with him did the
same. They mourned and
wept and fasted until the
evening for Saul and his son
Jonathan, for the people of

16. The Lord and for the House of
Israel, because they had
fallen by the sword.
Then David made this
lament over Saul and his son
Jonathan.

17. “Alas, the glory of Israel has
been slain on your heights!
How did the heroes fall?
“Saul and Jonathan, loved
and lovely,
neither in life, nor in death,

18. were divided.
Swifter than eagles were
they,
stronger were they than lions.
O daughters of Israel, weep
for Saul

19. and fine linen, who set
brooches of gold on your
garments.
“How did the heroes fall in
the thick of the battle?
“O Jonathan, in your death I

20. am stricken,
I am desolate for you,
Jonathan my brother.
Very dear to me you were,
your love to me more
wonderful

21. than the love of a woman.
“How did the heroes fall
and the battle armour fail?”

22. Thanks be to God
The Word of
the Lord

23. Let your face shine
on us, O Lord, and
we shall be saved.
The Psalm

24. O shepherd of Israel, hear us,
you who lead Joseph’s flock, shine
forth from your cherubim throne
upon Ephraim, Benjamin,
Manasseh.
O Lord, rouse up your might,
O Lord, come to our help.
The Psalm

25. Let your face shine
on us, O Lord, and
we shall be saved.
The Psalm

26. Lord God of hosts, how will you frown
on your people’s plea? You have fed
them with tears for their bread an
abundance of tears for their drink.
You have made us the taunt of our
neighbours, our enemies laugh us to
scorn.
The Psalm

27. Let your face shine
on us, O Lord, and
we shall be saved.
The Psalm

28. Alleluia, alleluia!
God in Christ was reconciling
the world to himself, and he
has entrusted to us the news
that they are reconciled.
Alleluia! Gospel Acclamation

29. The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to Mark 3:20-21
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel

30. Jesus went home, and once
more such a crowd collected
that they could not even
have a meal. When his
relatives heard of this, they
set out to take charge of him,

31. convinced he was out of his
mind.

32. The Gospel of the Lord
Praise to you, Lord
Jesus Christ.

34. Grant us, O Lord, we pray, that we may
participate worthily in these mysteries,
for whenever the memorial of this
sacrifice is celebrated the work of our
redemption is accomplished.
Through Christ our Lord. All:Amen
Prayer over The Offering

36. The Peace of the Lord be
with you always.
And with your
spirit.
Let us offer each other
the sign of peace
WeShare God’sPeace

38. God our Father, slow to anger,
abounding in mercy,
you find your way to us when we
cannot find our way to you,
you are always faithful even if when
we are unfaithful.

39. Jesus Christ, you entered
the house of sinners,
you sat at the table of the
poor,
you accepted the Cross,
your throne of mercy.

40. Holy Spirit, you pour your
healing gifts over our
wounds, you anoint us to
bring good news to the
poor, you send us out as
missionaries of mercy.

41. God of Mercies, have
mercy on us, so that where
sin abounds your grace
may abound all the more,
and we shall become
Merciful like you. Amen.