27th the holy family mass16 11am

2. Joy to the World , the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King; Let every
heart prepare Him room, and
Heaven and nature sing, and Heaven
and nature sing, and Heaven, and
Heaven, and nature sing.

3. Joy to the World, the Saviour reigns!
Let men their songs employ; While
fields and floods, rocks, hills and
plains. Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat,
repeat, the sounding joy.

4. He rules the world with truth and
grace, And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love, And
wonders of His love, And wonders,
wonders, of His love.

5. In the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the
Holy Spirit.
All: Amen We Gather

6. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God, and the
communion of the Holy Spirit be
with you all.
All: And with your spirit.
We Gather

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

9. May almighty God have mercy
on us, forgive us our sins, and
bring us to everlasting life.
All: Amen.
Penitential act

10. Glory! Glory!
Glory to God!
Glory! Glory to
God!

11. Glory to God in the
heights of the heavens.
Peace to God’s people,
all people on earth.

12. Glory! Glory!
Glory to God!
Glory! Glory to
God!

13. Son of the Father, all
glory and worship;
praise and thanksgiving
to you. Lamb of God.

14. Glory! Glory!
Glory to God!
Glory! Glory to
God!

15. You take away the sin
of the world; have
mercy on us, receive
our prayer.

16. Glory! Glory!
Glory to God!
Glory! Glory to
God!

17. Seated in power at the
right of the Father,
Jesus alone is the Lord,
the Most High.

18. Glory! Glory!
Glory to God!
Glory! Glory to
God!

19. And with the Spirit of
love everlasting,
reigning in glory for
ever. Amen.

20. Glory! Glory!
Glory to God!
Glory! Glory to
God!

21. O God, who were pleased to
give us the shining example
of the Holy Family, graciously
grant that we may imitate
them in practising the virtues
The Collect

22. of family life and in the bonds
of charity, and so, in the joy
of your house, delight one
day in eternal rewards.
The Collect

23. 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.
All: Amen The Collect

24. The First
Reading

25. A reading from the first book
of Samuel
Hannah conceived and gave
birth to a son, and called him

26. Samuel ‘since’ she said ‘I
asked the Lord for him.’
When a year had gone by,
the husband Elkanah went up
again with all his family to

27. offer the annual sacrifice to
the Lord and to fulfil his vow.
Hannah, however, did not go
up, having said to her
husband, ‘Not before the

28. child is weaned. Then I will
bring him and present him
before the Lord and he shall
stay there for ever.’
When she had weaned him,

29. she took him up with her
together with a three-year old
bull, an ephah of flour and a
skin of wine, and she brought
him to the temple of the Lord

30. at Shiloh; and the child was
with them. They slaughtered
the bull and the child’s
mother came to Eli. She said,
‘If you please, my lord.

31. As you live, my lord, I am the
woman who stood here
beside you, praying to the
Lord. This is the child I
prayed for, and the Lord

32. granted me what I asked him.
Now I make him over to the Lord
for the whole of his life. He is
made over to the Lord.’ There she
left him, for the Lord.

33. The Word
of the Lord
Thanks be to God.

34. They are happy who
dwell in your house,
O Lord.
The Psalm

35. How lovely is your dwelling place,
Lord, God of hosts. My soul is
longing and yearning, is
yearning for the courts of the
Lord. My heart and my soul ring
out their joy to God, the living
God. The Psalm

36. They are happy who
dwell in your house,
O Lord.
The Psalm

37. They are happy, who dwell in your
house, for ever singing your
praise.
They are happy, whose strength is
in you, in whose hearts are the
roads to Zion.
The Psalm

38. They are happy who
dwell in your house,
O Lord.
The Psalm

39. O Lord God of hosts, hear my
prayer,
give ear, O God of Jacob.
Turn your eyes, O God, our shield,
look on the face of your
anointed.
The Psalm

40. They are happy who
dwell in your house,
O Lord.
The Psalm

41. The Second
Reading

42. A reading from the first letter of
St John
Think of the love that the
Father has lavished on us,

43. by letting us be called God’s
children;
and that is what we are.
Because the world refused to
acknowledge him,

44. therefore it does not
acknowledge us.
My dear people, we are
already the children of God
but what we are to be in the

45. future has not yet been
revealed;
all we know is, that when it is
revealed
we shall be like him

46. because we shall see him as
he really is.
My dear people,
if we cannot be condemned
by our own conscience,

47. we need not be afraid in
God’s presence,
and whatever we ask him,
we shall receive,
because we keep his

48. commandments
and live the kind of life that he
wants.
His commandments are
these:

49. that we believe in the name of
his Son Jesus Christ
and that we love one another
as he told us to.
Whoever keeps his

50. Commandments lives in God
and God lives in him.
We know that he lives in us
by the Spirit that he has given
us.

51. The Word
of the Lord
Thanks be to God.

52. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia praise God!
Open our heart, O Lord,
to accept the words of your
Son.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia praise God!
Gospel Acclamation

53. The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to Luke.
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel

54. Every year the parents of
Jesus used to go to
Jerusalem for the feast of
the Passover. When he was
twelve years old, they went

55. up for the feast as usual.
When they were on their way
home after the feast, the boy
Jesus stayed behind in
Jerusalem without his

56. parents knowing it. They
assumed he was with the
caravan, and it was only
after a day’s journey that
they went to look for him

57. among their relations and
acquaintances. When they
failed to find him they went
back to Jerusalem looking
for him everywhere.

58. Three days later, they found
him in the Temple, sitting
among the doctors, listening
to them, and asking them
questions; and all those who

59. heard him were astounded
at his intelligence and his
replies. They were overcome
when they saw him, and his
mother said to him,

60. ‘My child, why have, you
done this to us? See how
worried your father and I
have been, looking for you.’
‘Why were you looking for

61. me?’ he replied ‘Did you not
know that I must be busy
with my Father’s affairs?’
But they did not understand
what he meant.

62. He then went down with
them and came to Nazareth
and lived under their
authority. His mother stored
up all these things in her

63. heart. And Jesus increased
in wisdom, in stature, and in
favour with God and men.

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

66. I believe in God, the Father
almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only
Son, our Lord,
The Apostles’

67. who was conceived by the
Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
The Apostles’

68. was crucified, died and was
buried;
he descended into hell;
on the third day he rose again
from the dead;
The Apostles’

69. he ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right
hand of God the Father
almighty;
The Apostles’

70. from there he will come to
judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
The Apostles’

71. the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
Amen
The Apostles’

72. Prayer of the Faithful

73. Celebrant: God sent his Son into our
world as a helpless child who
needed the warmth and protection of
a human family. In our helplessness
we turn to him in prayer.

74. 1. Let us ask God to bless the Church,
our Christian family, both in this parish
and throughout the world; that we may
witness to his life-giving presence by
the kind of lives we lead, and the work
that we do. Lord, hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us

75. 2. We pray for the leaders of nations;
may they enact laws and pursue policies
which protect family life.
Lord, hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us

76. 3. Let us pray for all families,
especially those experiencing
difficulties; may the prayers of the Holy
Family help to unite them in love.
Lord, hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us

77. 4. We pray for all children at risk from
parents or relatives; all those born
prematurely; all who are handicapped,
and for their families, that they may not
be like sheep without a shepherd, but
may be lovingly cared for and tended by
God. Lord, hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us

78. 5. We pray for those who have
departed this life, that all families may
be reunited in the glory of God's
kingdom.
Lord hear us
All: Lord graciously hear us

79. 6. In silence, we put our own needs
before our loving Lord, especially those
intentions mentioned in our Book.

80. Mary, wife of Joseph and Mother of Our
Lord, we ask that you join with the
prayers of the whole human family, as
we say:

81. Hail Mary, full of grace. The
Lord is with thee. Blessed
art thou among
women, and blessed
is the fruit of
thy womb, Jesus.

82. Holy Mary, Mother
of God, pray for us
sinners, now and
at the hour of our
death. Amen.

83. Celebrant: Father, you sent your Son
into the human family to bring about
the work of redemption. Help us to
appreciate all that you have done for
us. We ask this through Christ our
Lord.

85. 1. Hark the herald angels
sing, glory to the new– born
King; peace on earth and
mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled;

86. joyful all ye nations rise,
join the triumph of the skies,
with the angelic–host
proclaim, Christ is born in
Bethlehem.

87. Hark, the herald Angels
sing, glory to the new–
born King,

88. 2. Christ, by highest heaven
adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
late in time behold him come,
offspring of a Virgin’s womb!

89. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
hail the incarnate Deity!
Pleased as man with man to
dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.

90. Hark, the herald Angels
sing, glory to the new–
born King,

91. 3. Hail the heaven – born Prince
of Peace!
Hail the Son of righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
risen with healing in his wings,

92. mild he lays his glory by,
born that man no more may die,
born to raise the sons of earth,
born to give them second birth.

93. Hark, the herald Angels
sing, glory to the new–
born King,

95. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation,
for through your goodness we have
received the bread we offer you: fruit of
the earth and work of human hands, it will
become for us the bread of life.
All: Blessed be God for ever.
Presentation and preparation of the

97. Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation,
for through your goodness we have
received the wine we offer you: fruit of the
vine and work of human hands it will
become our spiritual drink.
All: Blessed be God for ever.
Presentation and preparation of the

99. Pray, my brothers and sisters,
that my sacrifice and yours may
be acceptable to God, the
almighty Father.

100. All: 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.

101. We offer you, Lord, the sacrifice of
conciliation, humbly asking that, through
the intercession of the Virgin Mother of
God and Saint Joseph, you may
establish our families firmly in your
grace and your peace. Through Christ
our Lord. All: Amen
Prayer over the offerings

102. The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit.
Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.
All: It is right and just.Preface Dialogue

104. 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.

106. O come let us adore him,
O come let us adore him,
O come letMemorial Acclamation

108. Through him, and with him, and in
him, O God, almighty Father, in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and
honour is yours, for ever and ever.
All: Amen!

110. Our Father, who art in heaven
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be
done, hallowed be thy name,
hallowed be thy name

111. On earth as it is in heaven.
hallowed be thy name.
Give us this day our daily
bread. Hallowed be thy
name. (2)

112. Forgive us our trespasses,
Hallowed be thy name.
As we forgive those who
trespass against us.
Hallowed be thy name. (2)

113. Lead us not into temptation.
Hallowed be thy name.
but deliver us from all that is
evil. Hallowed be thy name.
(2)

114. 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, and useless worry, as we
await the blessed hope and the coming
of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

115. For thine is the kingdom, the
power, and the glory. Hallowed
be thy name.
for ever, and for ever and ever.
Hallowed be thy name. (2)

116. 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,

117. and graciously grant her
peace and unity in
accordance with your will.
Who live and reign for ever
and ever. Amen

118. The Peace of the Lord
be with you always.
And with your
spirit.
Let us offer each other the sign of peace
We Share God’s Peace

119. 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.Fraction of the Bread

121. 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.
Invitation to Communion

122. All: Lord, I am not worthy
that you should enter under
my roof, but only say the
word and my soul shall be
healed.
Invitation to Communion

124. Silent night, Holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon virgin, mother and child
Holy infant, tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

125. Silent night, Holy night
Shepherds quake, at the sight
Glories stream from heaven above
Heavenly, hosts sing Hallelujah.
Christ the Saviour is born,
Christ the Saviour is born.

126. Silent night, Holy night
Son of God, love's pure light
Radiant beams from thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord at thy birth
Jesus, Lord at thy birth.

128. Father, slow to anger, abounding in
mercy, You see us and run to us
when we are far away from you, you
find your way to us when we cannot
find our way to you, you are always
faithful when we are unfaithful.

129. Jesus Christ, you entered
the house of sinners, you
sat at the table of the
poor, you mounted the
Cross, you throne of
mercy.

130. 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.

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

133. Bring those you refresh with this
heavenly Sacrament, most merciful
Father, to imitate constantly the example
of the Holy Family, so that, after the trials
of this world, we may share their
company for ever. Through Christ our
Lord. All: Amen
Prayer after communion

135. The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit.
Final Blessing

136. May almighty God bless you,
the Father, and the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
All: Amen.
Final Blessing

137. The mass is ended, go in peace
and proclaim the Gospel of the
Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
Dismissal

138. Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and
everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born

139. While shepherds kept their
watching, O'er silent flocks
by night, Behold throughout
the heavens, there shone a
holy light

140. Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and
everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born

141. And lo, when they had seen
it, they all bowed down and
prayed, they travelled on
together to where the Babe
was laid.

142. Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and
everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born

143. When I was a seeker
I sought both night and day
I sought the Lord to help me
And He showed me the way.

144. Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and
everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born

145. He made me a watchman
Upon the city wall
And If I am a Christian
I am the least of all.

146. Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and
everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born