This document contains the order of service for a Mass honoring Saint Agnes. It includes prayers, readings from Scripture, and parts of the Mass liturgy. The opening and closing prayers ask God for the strength and faith of Saint Agnes, and for God's gracious acceptance of the offerings. The Gospel reading is from Mark about Jesus withdrawing from crowds to the lakeside due to their size.

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

3. Entrance antiphon
Behold, now she follows the
Lamb who was crucified for us,
powerful in virginity, modesty
her offering, a sacrifice on the
altar of chastity.

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
choose what is weak in the world
to confound the strong, mercifully
grant, that we, who celebrate the
heavenly birthday of your Martyr
Collect

8. Saint Agnes, may follow her
constancy in the faith. Through our
Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in
the unity of the Holy Spirit, on God,
for ever and ever. All:Amen
Collect

10. The First Reading

11. A reading from the first Book
of Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7
On their way back, as David
was returning after killing the

12. Philistine, the women came
out to meet King Saul from all
the towns of Israel, singing
and dancing to the sound of
tambourine and lyre and cries
of joy; and as they danced

13. the women sang: ‘Saul has
killed his thousands, and
David his tens of thousands.’
Saul was very angry; the
incident was not to his liking.

14. “They have given David the
tens of thousands,’’ he said
‘but me only the thousands;
he has all but the kingship
now.’ And Saul turned a
jealous eye on David from

15. that day forward.
Saul told Jonathan his son
and all his servants of his
intention to kill David. Now
Jonathan, Saul’s son, held
David in great affection; and

16. so Jonathan warned David;
‘My father Saul is looking for
a way to kill you,’ he said ‘so
be on your guard tomorrow
morning; hide away in some
secret place. Then I will go

17. out and keep my father
company in the fields where
you are hiding, and will talk
to my father about you; I will
find out what the situation is
and let you know.’

18. So Jonathan spoke well of
David to Saul his father; he
said, ‘Let not the king sin
against his servant David, for
he has not sinned against
you, and what he has done

19. has been greatly to your
advantage. He took his life in
his hands when he killed the
Philistine, and the Lord
brought about a great victory
for all Israel. You saw it

20. yourself and rejoiced; why
then sin against innocent
blood in killing David without
cause?’ Saul was impressed
by Jonathan’s words and
took an oath, ‘As the Lord

21. lives, I will not kill him.’
Jonathan called David and
told him all these things.
Then Jonathan brought him
to Saul, and David attended
on him as before.

22. Thanks be to God
The Word of
the Lord

23. In God I trust;
I shall not fear.
The Psalm

24. Have mercy on me, God, men
crush me; they fight me all day
long and oppress me.
My foes crush me all day long,
for many fight proudly against
me.
The Psalm

25. In God I trust;
I shall not fear.
The Psalm

26. You have kept an account of my
wanderings; you have kept a
record of my tears; (are they not
written in your book?)
Then my foes will be put to flight
on the day that I call to you.
The Psalm

27. In God I trust;
I shall not fear.
The Psalm

28. This I know, that God is on my
side.
In God, whose word I praise,
in the Lord whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I shall not fear;
what can mortal man do to me?
The Psalm

29. In God I trust;
I shall not fear.
The Psalm

30. I am bound by the vows I have made
you. O God, I will offer you praise
for you have rescued my soul from
death, you kept my feet from
stumbling that I may walk in the
presence of God and enjoy the
light of the living. The Psalm

31. In God I trust;
I shall not fear.
The Psalm

32. Alleluia, alleluia!
Your words are spirit, Lord,
and they are life you have the
message of eternal life.
Alleluia!
Gospel Acclamation

33. The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to Mark 3:7-12
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel

34. Jesus withdrew with his
disciples to the lakeside, and
great crowds from Galilee
followed him. From Judaea,
Jerusalem, Idumaea,
Transjordania and the region

35. of Tyre and Sidon, great
numbers who had heard of
all he was doing came to
him. And he asked his
disciples to have a boat
ready for him because of the

36. crowd, to keep him from
being crushed. For he had
cured so many that all who
were afflicted in any way
were crowding forward to
touch him. And the unclean

37. spirits, whenever they saw
him, would fall down before
him and shout, ‘You are the
Son of God!’ But he warned
them strongly not to make
him known.

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

40. May the offerings we bring in
celebration of blessed Saint Agnes
win your gracious acceptance, O Lord,
we pray, just as the struggle of her
suffering and passion was pleasing to
you. Through Christ our Lord.
All : Amen Prayer over The Offering

42. 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

44. 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.

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

46. 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.

47. 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.