This document contains the readings and prayers for a Catholic mass. It includes an entrance antiphon welcoming nations to worship God, a reading from the first letter of John about believing in Jesus and loving one another, a Gospel reading from Matthew about Jesus beginning his preaching in Galilee, and concluding prayers over offerings and for mercy.

1. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, in you we contemplate
the splendour of true love, to you we turn with trust.

3. Entrance antiphon
A holy day has dawned upon
us: Come, you nations, and
adore the Lord, for a great
light has come down upon
the earth.

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

7. O God, whose eternal Word adorns
the face of the heavens yet accepted
from the Virgin Mary the frailty of our
flesh, grant, we pray, that he who
appeared among us as the splendour
of truth may go forth in the fullness
The Collect

8. of power for the redemption of the
world.
Who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
The Collect

10. The First Reading

11. A reading from the first Letter
of Saint John 3:22-4:6
Whatever we ask God, we
shall receive, because we keep
his commandments and live

12. the kind of life that he wants.
His commandments are these:
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

13. Commandments lives in God
and God lives in him. We know
that he lives in us by the Spirit
that he has given us. It is not
every spirit, my dear people,
that you can trust; test them,

14. to see if they come from God,
there are many false prophets,
now, in the world. You can tell
the spirits that come from God
by this: every spirit which
acknowledges that Jesus the

15. Christ has come in the flesh is
from God; but any spirit which
will not say this of Jesus
is not from God, but is the
spirit of Antichrist, whose
coming you were warned

16. about. Well, now he is here, in
the world. Children, you have
already overcome these false
prophets, because you are
from God and you have in you
one who is greater than

17. anyone in this world; as for
them, they are of the world,
and so they speak the
language of the world and the
world listens to them. But we
are children of God, and those

18. who know God listen to us;
those who are not of God
refuse to listen to us. This is
how we can tell the spirit of
truth from the spirit of
falsehood.

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

20. I will give you the
nations for your
heritage.
The Psalm

21. The Lord said to me: ‘You are my
Son. It is I who have begotten you
this day. Ask and I shall bequeath
you the nations, put the ends of the
earth in your possession.
The Psalm

22. I will give you the
nations for your
heritage.
The Psalm

23. Now, O kings, understand,
take warning, rulers of the earth;
serve the Lord with awe
and trembling, pay him your
homage.
The Psalm

24. I will give you the
nations for your
heritage.
The Psalm

25. Alleluia, alleluia!
The people that lived in
darkness has seen a great
light; on those who dwell in the
land and shadow of death a light
has dawned. Alleluia! Gospel

26. The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to Matthew 4:12-17,23-25
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel

27. Hearing that John had been
arrested, Jesus went back to
Galilee, and leaving Nazareth
he went and settled in
Capernaum, a lakeside town
on the borders of Zebulun and

28. Naphtali. In this way the
prophecy of Isaiah was to be
fulfilled:
‘Land of Zebulun! Land of
Naphtali! Way of the sea on
the far side of Jordan, Galilee

29. of the nations!
The people that lived in
darkness has seen a great
light; on those who dwell in
the land and shadow of death
a light has dawned.’

30. From that moment Jesus
began his preaching with the
message, ‘Repent, for the
kingdom of heaven is close at
hand.’ He went round the
whole of Galilee teaching in

31. their synagogues, proclaiming
the Good News of the kingdom
and curing all kinds of
diseases and sickness among
the people. His fame spread
throughout Syria, and those

32. who were suffering from
diseases and painful
complaints of one kind or
another, the possessed,
epileptics, the paralysed, were
all brought to him, and he

33. cured them. Large crowds
followed him, coming from
Galilee, the Decapolis,
Jerusalem, Judaea and
Transjordania.

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

36. Prayer over the Offerings
Receive our oblation, O Lord, by
which is brought about a glorious
exchange, that, by offering what you
have given, we may merit to receive
your very self.
Through Christ our Lord.
Prayer over the

38. 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

40. 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 when we are
unfaithful.

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

42. 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.

43. 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.