TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT: FOR THIS IS MY BODY,
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.
In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and, once
more giving thanks, He gave it to his disciples, saying:
TAKE THIS ALL OF YOU AND DRINK FROM IT: FOR THIS IS THE
CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL
COVENANT, WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU AND FOR
MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. DO THIS IN MEMORY OF
ME.
Priest : The mystery of faith
ACCLAMATION (to be sung)
Priest: Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his death and
resurrection. We offer you Lord, the bread of life and the chalice of
salvation, giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your
presence and minister to you.
Humbly we pray that, partaking of the Body and Blood of Christ, we may
be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.
Remember, Lord, your church, spread throughout the world and bring
her to the fullness of charity, together with Francis our Pope, Socrates
our archbishop, Fidelis his Auxiliary bishop and all the clergy.
Gospel Acclamation (Song)
GOSPEL READING:
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your Spirit.
Priest: A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John (17:11b-19)
All: Glory to you, Lord.
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying:
“Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that
they may be one just as we are one. When I was with them I protected
them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of
them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the Scripture
might be fulfilled.
But now I am coming to you. I speak this in the world so that they may
share my joy completely. I gave them your word, and the world hated
them because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to
the world.
I do not ask that you take them out of the world but that you keep them
from the Evil One. They do not belong to the world any more than I
belong to the world. Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.
As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. And I
consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in
truth.”
THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD
All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.