Mass for the Sixth Sunday of Easter 2020
Mass for the Sixth Sunday of
Easter
17th May 2020
THE GATHERING
Hymn
All
people that on earth do dwell
All
people that on earth do dwell,
sing
to the Lord with cheerful voice;
Him
serve with fear, his praise forth tell
come
ye before him, and rejoice!
The
Lord, ye know is God indeed;
without
our aid he did us make;
We
are the folk, he doth us feed,
and
for his sheep he doth us take.
O
enter then his gates with joy,
approach
with joy his courts unto;
Praise,
laud and bless his name always,
for
it is seemly so to do.
For
why? The LORD our God is good,
his
mercy is forever sure;
His
truth at all times firmly stood,
and
shall from age to age endure.
To
Father, Son and Holy Ghost,
The
God whom heaven and earth adore;
From
men and from the Angel-host,
be
praise and glory evermore. Amen.
[NEH 334. Psalm 100 set to music.]
Introit
The celebrant prays the
Introit
Proclaim a joyful sound and let it be heard; proclaim
to the ends of the earth: The Lord has freed his people, alleluia.
In the name
of the Father,
and of the Son,
and of the
Holy Spirit.
All Amen.
Alleluia.
Christ is risen.
All He
is risen indeed. Alleluia.
The
celebrant welcomes the people and introduces the service
Prayer of
Preparation
All Almighty
God,
to whom all
hearts are open,
all desires known,
and from
whom no secrets are hidden:
cleanse the
thoughts of our hearts
by the
inspiration of your Holy Spirit,
that we may
perfectly love you,
and worthily
magnify your holy name;
through
Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Prayer of Confession
The Celebrant introduces the Confession with
words appropriate to the season.
All Almighty
God, our heavenly Father,
we have
sinned against you
and against
our neighbour
in thought
and word and deed,
through
negligence, through weakness,
through our
own deliberate fault.
we are truly
sorry
and repent
of all our sins.
For the sake
of your Son Jesus Christ,
who died for
us,
forgive us
all that is past
and grant
that we may serve you in newness of life
to the glory
of your name.
Amen.
The celebrant proclaims God’s forgiveness
The Gloria
All Glory to God in the highest,
and peace to his people on
earth.
Lord God, heavenly King,
almighty God and Father,
we worship you, we give you thanks,
we praise you for
your glory.
Lord Jesus Christ,
only Son of the Father,
Lord God, Lamb of
God,
you take away the
sin of the world:
have mercy on us;
you are seated at
the right hand of the Father:
receive our
prayer.
For you alone are
the Holy One,
you alone are the
Lord,
you alone are the
Most High, Jesus Christ,
with the Holy
Spirit,
in the glory of
God the Father.
Amen.
The Collect
Let us pray
The Celebrant prays the Collect set for the day
Grant, almighty God,
that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these
days of joy,
which we keep in honour of the risen Lord,
and that what we relive in remembrance
we may always hold to in what we do.
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.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the
Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached,
either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw
them for themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came
shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples
were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.
When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had
accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they went down
there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he
had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of
the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy
Spirit.
[Acts 8:5-8,14-17]
This is the
word of the Lord.
All Thanks
be to God.
A reading
from the First Letter of St Peter.
Reverence the Lord Christ in your hearts, and
always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope
that you all have. But give it with courtesy and respect and with a clear
conscience, so that those who slander you when you are living a good life in
Christ may be proved wrong in the accusations that they bring. And if it is the
will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer for doing right than
for doing wrong.
Why, Christ himself, innocent though he was, had
died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was
put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life.
[1 Peter 3:15-18]
This is the
word of the Lord.
All Thanks
be to God.
Hymn
The
strife is o'er, the battle done;
The
strife is o'er, the battle done;
now
is the Victor’s triumph won;
O
Let the song of praise be sung.
Alleluia!
Death’s
mightiest powers have done their worst,
and
Jesus hath his foes dispersed;
Let
shouts of praise and joy outburst.
Alleluia!
On
the third morn he rose again
glorious
in majesty to reign;
O
let us swell the joyful strain.
Alleluia!
He
brake the age-bound chains of hell;
the
bars from heaven's high portals fell;
Let
hymns of praise his triumph tell.
Alleluia!
Lord,
by the stripes which wounded thee,
from
death's dread sting thy servants free,
that
we may live and sing to thee.
Alleluia!
[NEH 119]
Gospel
reading
The Celebrant announces the Gospel using the
acclamation
proper to the season then introduces the Gospel
with these words
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus said: ‘If anyone loves me he will keep my
word, and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him.’ Alleluia!
All Alleluia.
The Lord be with
you.
All And also with you.
Hear the
Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St John.
All Glory
to you, O Lord.
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘If you love me you will keep my commandments.
I shall ask the Father,
and he will give you another Advocate
to be with you for ever,
that Spirit of truth
whom the world can never receive
since it neither sees nor knows him;
but you know him,
because he is with you, he is in you.
I will not leave you orphans;
I will come back to you.
In a short time the world will no longer see me;
but you will see me,
because I live and you will live.
On that day you will understand that I am in my
Father
and you in me and I in you.
Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them
will be one who loves me;
and anybody who loves me will be loved by my
Father,
and I shall love him and show myself to him.’
[John 14:15-21]
This is the
Gospel of the Lord.
All Praise
to you, O Christ.
Sermon
The
Creed
All We believe
in one God,
the Father,
the Almighty,
maker of
heaven and earth,
of
all that is,
seen
and unseen.
We
believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the
only Son of God,
eternally
begotten of the Father,
God
from God, Light from Light,
true
God from true God,
begotten,
not made,
of
one Being with the Father;
through
him all things were made.
For
us and for our salvation he came down from heaven,
was
incarnate from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary
and
was made man.
For
our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he
suffered death and was buried.
On
the third day he rose again
in
accordance with the Scriptures;
he
ascended into heaven
and
is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He
will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and
his kingdom will have no end.
We
believe in the Holy Spirit,
the
Lord, the giver of life,
who
proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who
with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified,
who
has spoken through the prophets
We
believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We
acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We
look for the resurrection of the dead,
and
the life of the world to come.
Amen.
Prayers of Intercession
These responses is used
Lord, in
your mercy
All hear
our prayer.
And at the end
Merciful
Father,
All accept
these prayers
for the sake
of your Son,
our
Saviour Jesus Christ.
Amen.
THE LITURGY OF THE SACRAMENT
The Peace
The celebrant introduces the Peace with words proper to
the season and then says
The peace of
the Lord be always with you
All and
also with you.
Hymn
Jerusalem
the golden,
Jerusalem
the golden,
with
milk and honey blest,
beneath
thy contemplation
sink
heart and voice opprest.
I
know not, O I know not,
what
social joys are there;
what
radiancy of glory,
what
light beyond compare.
They
stand, those halls of Sion,
conjubilant
with song,
and
bright with many an angel,
and
all the martyr throng.
The
Prince is ever in them,
the
daylight is serene;
the
pastures of the blessed
are
decked in glorious sheen.
There
is the throne of David;
and
there, from care released,
the
song of them that triumph,
the
shout of them that feast;
and
they who with their Leader
have
conquered in the fight,
for
ever and for ever
are
clad in robes of white.
O
sweet and blessed country,
shall
I ever see thy face?
O
sweet and blessed country
shall
I ever win thy grace?
Exult
, O dust and ashes!
The
Lord shall be thy part;
His
only, his forever,
thou
shalt be, and thou art!
[NEH 381]
Prayer
over the gifts
May our prayers rise up to you, O Lord,
together with the sacrificial offerings,
so that, purified by your graciousness,
we may be conformed to the mysteries of your mighty
love.
Through Christ our Lord.
All
Amen.
The Eucharistic Prayer
The Lord be
with you
All and
also with you.
Lift up your
hearts.
All We
lift them to the Lord.
Let us give
thanks to the Lord our God.
All It
is right to give thanks and praise.
The Celebrant praises God for his mighty acts and all
respond
All Holy,
holy, holy Lord,
God of power
and might,
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.
The president recalls the Last Supper,
Praise to
you, Lord Jesus:
All Dying
you destroyed our death,
rising you
restored our life:
Lord
Jesus, come in glory.
The Prayer continues and concludes with these words
[…]
Through him, and with him, and in him,
in
the unity of the Holy Spirit,
with
all who stand before you in earth and heaven,
we
worship you, Father almighty,
in
songs of everlasting praise:
All Blessing
and honour and glory and power
be
yours for ever and ever.
Amen.
The
Lord’s Prayer
Let
us pray with confidence as our Saviour has taught us
All Our
Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be
thy name;
thy
kingdom come;
thy
will be done;
on
earth as it is in heaven.
Give
us this day our daily bread.
And
forgive us our trespassas we forgive those who trespass against us.
And
lead us not into temptation;
but
deliver us from evil.
For
thine is the kingdom,
the
power and the glory,
for
ever and ever.
Amen.
The Fraction
Every time
we eat this bread
and drink
this cup,
All we
proclaim the Lord’s death
until he
comes.
The Agnus Dei
All Jesus,
Lamb of God,
have mercy
on us.
Jesus,
bearer of our sins,
have mercy
on us.
Jesus,
redeemer of the world,
grant us
peace.
Alleluia.
Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.
All Therefore
let us keep the feast. Alleluia!
Communion
Antiphon
If you love me, keep my commandments, says the
Lord, and I will ask the Father and he will send you another Paraclete, to
abide with you for ever, alleluia.
We
make our spiritual communion
Communion
Anthem
A
new commandment
Post
Communion Prayers
Almighty ever-living God,
who restore us to eternal life in the Resurrection
of Christ,
increase in us, we pray, the fruits of this paschal
Sacrament
and pour into our hearts the strength of this
saving food.
Through Christ our Lord.
All Amen
All Father
of all,
we give you
thanks and praise,
that
when we were still far off
you
met us in your Son and brought us home.
Dying
and living, he declared your love,
gave
us grace, and opened the gate of glory.
May
we who share Christ’s body live his risen life;
we
who drink his cup bring life to others;
we
whom the Spirit lights give light to the world.
Keep
us firm in the hope you have set before us,
so
we and all your children shall be free,
and
the whole earth live to praise your name;
through
Christ our Lord.
Amen.
THE DISMISSAL
Notices
Hymn
O
worship the King
O
worship the King
all
glorious above,
O
gratefully sing
His
power and his love:
our
shield and defender,
the
Ancient of Days,
pavilioned
in splendour
and
girded with praise.
O
tell of his might
O
sing of his grace,
whose
robe is the light,
whose
canopy space;
His
chariots of wrath
the
deep thunder-clouds form,
and
dark is his path
on
the wings of the storm.
The
earth, with its store
of
wonders untold,
Almighty,
thy power
hath
founded of old;
Hath
stablished it fast,
by
a changeless decree,
and
round it hath cast,
like
a mantle, the sea.
Thy
bountiful care,
what
tongue can recite?
It
breathes in the air,
it
shines in the light;
it
streams from the hills,
it
descends to the plain,
and
sweetly distils
in
the dew and the rain.
Frail
children of dust
and
feeble and frail -
in
thee do we trust,
nor
find thee to fail;
Thy
mercies, how tender,
how
firm to the end!
our
Maker, Defender,
Redeemer,
and Friend.
O
measureless Might,
ineffable
Love,
while
angels delight
to
hymn thee above!
Thy
humbler creation,
though
feeble their lays,
with
true adoration
shall
sing to thy praise!
[NEH 433]
Final blessing
The celebrant introduces the blessing with
words proper to the season and then says
[…]
and the blessing of God almighty,
the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit,
be among you
and remain with you always.
All Amen.
Ite missa
est.
All Deo
gratias.
Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the
Church of England, material from which
is included in this service, is copyright of
the Archbishops' Council 2000
The New English Hymnal, material from which
is included in this service, is copyright of
The Canterbury Press, 2010
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