This document contains the text of a Catholic mass. It includes an entrance antiphon calling people to sing to God, a penitential act where "Lord, have mercy" is said, and the opening prayer. There are also readings from the Second Book of Samuel and the Gospel of Mark, a Psalm, and prayers including the prayer over offerings and a concluding prayer asking God to have mercy and make people merciful.

3. Entrance antiphon
O sing a new song to the
Lord; sing to the Lord, all the
earth. In his presence are
majesty and splendour,
strength and honour in his
holy place.

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,
direct our actions according to
your good pleasure, that in the
name of your beloved Son
we may abound in good works.
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.
All:Amen
Collect

9. The First Reading

10. A reading from the Second
Book of Samuel
11:1-4,5-10, 13-17
At the turn of the year, the

11. campaigning, David sent
Joab and with him his own
guards and the whole of
Israel. They massacred the
Ammonites and laid siege to
Rabbah. David, however,

12. remained in Jerusalem.
It happened towards
evening when David had
risen from his couch and was
strolling on the palace roof,
that he saw from the roof a

13. woman bathing; the woman
was very beautiful. David
made inquiries about
this.woman and was told,
‘Why, that is Bathsheba,
Eliam’s daughter, the wife of

14. Uriah the Hittite.’ Then David
sent messengers and had her
brought. She came to him,
and he slept with her. She
then went home again. The
woman conceived and sent

15. word to David; ‘I am with
child.’
Then David sent Joab a
message, ‘Send me Uriah the
Hittite’, whereupon Joab sent
Uriah to David. When Uriah

16. came into his presence,
David asked after Joab and
the army and how the war
was going. David then said to
Uriah, ‘Go down to your
house and enjoy yourself.

17. Uriah left the palace, and was
followed by a present from
the king’s table. Uriah
however slept by the palace
door with his master’s
bodyguard and did not go

18. down to his house.
This was reported to David;
‘Uriah’ they said ‘did not go
down to his house.’ The next
day David invited him to eat
and drink in his presence and

19. made him drunk. In the
evening Uriah went out and
lay on his couch with his
master’s bodyguard, but he
did not go down to his house.
Next morning David wrote

20. a letter to Joab and sent it by
Uriah. In the letter he wrote,
‘Station Uriah in the thick of
the fight and then fall back
behind him so that he may be
struck down and die.’ Joab,

21. then besieging the town,
posted Uriah in a place where
he knew there were fierce
fighters. The men of the town
sallied out and engaged
Joab; the army suffered

22. casualties, including some of
David’s bodyguard; and Uriah
the Hittite was killed too.

23. Thanks be to God
The Word of
the Lord

24. Have mercy on us,
Lord, for we have
sinned.
The Psalm

25. Have mercy on me, God, in your
kindness.
In your compassion blot out my
offence.
O wash me more and more from
my guiltand cleanse me from my
sin. The Psalm

26. Have mercy on us,
Lord, for we have
sinned.
The Psalm

27. My offences truly I know them;
my sin is always before me
Against you, you alone, have I
sinned;
what is evil in your sight I have
done.
The Psalm

28. Have mercy on us,
Lord, for we have
sinned.
The Psalm

29. That you may be justified when
you give sentence
and be without reproach when
you judge,
O see, in guilt I was born,
a sinner was I conceived.
The Psalm

30. Have mercy on us,
Lord, for we have
sinned.
The Psalm

31. Make me hear rejoicing and
gladness,
that the bones you have crushed
may thrill.
From my sins turn away your face
and blot out all my guilt.
The Psalm

32. Have mercy on us,
Lord, for we have
sinned.
The Psalm

33. Alleluia, alleluia!
Make me grasp the way of
your precepts, and I will
muse on your wonders.
Alleluia!
Gospel Acclamation

34. The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to Mark 4:26-34
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel

35. Jesus said to the crowds,
‘This is what the kingdom of
God is like. A man throws
seed on the land. Night and
day, while he sleeps, when
he is awake, the seed is

36. sprouting and growing; how,
he does not know. Of its own
accord the land produces
first the shoot, then the ear,
then the full grain in the ear.
And when the crop is ready,

37. he loses no time: he starts to
reap because the harvest has
come.’
He also said, ‘What can we
say the kingdom of God is
like? What parable can we

38. find for it? It is like a mustard
seed which at the time of its
sowing in the soil is the
smallest of all the seeds on
earth; yet once it is sown it
grows into the biggest shrub

39. of them all and puts out big
branches so that the birds of
the air can shelter in its
shade.’
Using many parables like
these, he spoke the word to

40. them, so far as they were
capable of understanding it. He
would not speak to them
except in parables, but he
explained everything to his
disciples when they were alone

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

43. Accept our offerings, O Lord, we
pray,
and in sanctifying them
grant that they may profit us for
salvation.
Through Christ our Lord.
All : Amen Prayer over The Offering

45. 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

47. 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 when we
are unfaithful.

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

49. 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.

50. 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.