29 March 2018 HOLY THURSDAY MASS OF THE LORDÊS …

1 Liturgical Leaflet for an Active Participation in the Celebration of the Eucharist 29 March 2018 HOLY THURSDAY MASS OF THE LORD S SUPPER. The Two Sacraments of Christ's Presence T. oday, Holy THURSDAY , we gather to commemorate the institu- tion of the ministerial priesthood and of the Eucharist, the two Sacraments which perpetuate in a unique manner the endless love of Christ for all mankind. He became God-with-us at the Incarnation. When he ordered his apostles to repeat what he did at the Last Supper, Jesus became even more God-with-us in the person of the ordained minister and by making himself Bread and Wine to be our Food and Drink for our earthly pilgrimage. This self-o ering of Christ becomes an ever-present reality and gift to the whole Church every time the ordained minister celebrates the Eucharist.

2 Let our participation in the Holy Sacrifice this evening, and the adoration that will follow it, be for all of us a special opportunity to thank the Lord for the gifts of the ministerial priesthood and of the Eucharist. ask the Lord for pardon and All Christ, have mercy! INTRODUCTORY strength. (Pause). RITES P Lord, have mercy! All I confess to almighty God All Lord, have mercy! Entrance Antiphon and to you, my brothers and (To be recited only when no En- sisters, that I have greatly Gloria trance Hymn is sung.) sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have At the beginning of the We should glory in the Gloria, the church bells are Cross of our Lord Jesus done and in what I have failed to do, (strike your breast) rung. Christ, in whom is our salva- tion, life and resurrection, through my fault, through my fault, through my most griev- All Glory to God in the through whom we are saved highest, and on earth peace and delivered.

3 Ous fault. Therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, to people of good will. We Greeting all the Angels and Saints, and praise you, we bless you, we you, my brothers and sisters, adore you, we glorify you, P Blessed be Jesus Christ, to pray for me to the Lord our we give you thanks for your the Eternal Priest and the God. Bread of Life. May his grace great glory, Lord God, heav- P May almighty God have enly King, O God, almighty and peace be with you all. mercy on us, forgive us our All And with your spirit! Father. sins, and bring us to everlast- Lord Jesus Christ, Only Penitential Act ing life. Begotten Son, Lord God, All Amen! P My brothers and sisters, Lamb of God, Son of the Fa- as we are about to begin the P Lord, have mercy! ther, you take away the sins Eucharistic sacrifice, let All Lord, have mercy!

4 Of the world, have mercy on us call to mind our sins and P Christ, have mercy! us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; and then, with the whole assem- 2nd Reading 1 Cor 11:23-26. you are seated at the right bly of Israel present, it shall be Writing to the Christians of hand of the Father, have mer- slaughtered during the evening Corinth, St. Paul narrates the cy on us. For you alone are twilight. They shall take some of institution of the Eucharist and the Holy One, you alone are its blood and apply it to the two of the ministerial priesthood doorposts and the lintel of every the way he learned it from the Lord, you alone are the house in which they partake of Jesus himself. Most High, Jesus Christ, with the lamb. That same night they the Holy Spirit, in the glory of R A proclamation from the shall eat its roasted flesh with un- First Letter of Paul to the God the Father.

5 Amen! leavened bread and bitter herbs. This is how you are to eat it: Corinthians Collect (Opening Prayer) with your loins girt, sandals on Brothers and sisters: your feet and your staff in hand, I received from the Lord what P O God, who have called I also handed on to you, that the us to participate in this most you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the Lord Jesus, on the night he was sacred Supper, in which your Lord. For on this same night I will handed over, took bread, and, af- Only Begotten Son, when go through Egypt, striking down ter he had given thanks, broke it about to hand himself over to every firstborn of the land, both and said, This is my body that is death, entrusted to the Church man and beast, and executing for you. Do this in remembrance a sacrifice new for all eter- judgment on all the gods of Egypt of me.

6 In the same way also the nity, the banquet of his love, I, the Lord! But the blood will cup, after supper, saying, This grant we pray, that we may mark the houses where you are. cup is the new covenant in my draw from so great a mystery, Seeing the blood, I will pass over blood. Do this, as often as you the fullness of charity and of you; thus, when I strike the land drink it, in remembrance of me.. life. of Egypt, no destructive blow will For as often as you eat this Through our Lord Jesus come upon you. bread and drink the cup, you pro- Christ, your Son, who lives This day shall be a memo- claim the death of the Lord until shall celebrate with and reigns with you in the rial feast for you, which all your he comes. unity of the Holy Spirit, one generations The Word of the Lord! God, for ever and ever.

7 Pilgrimage to the Lord, as a per- All Thanks be to God! All Amen! petual institution.. The Word of the Lord! Verse before the Gospel All Thanks be to God! All (Praise to you, Lord Jesus Responsorial Psalm Ps 116 Christ, King of endless glory!). 1st Reading Ex 12 R Our blessing-cup is a com- I give you a new com- The sacrifice of the Pass- munion with the Blood of mandment, says the over lamb and its consump- Christ! Lord: love one another tion during the Passover meal as I have loved you.. foreshadow the Eucharist as R. M. Velez (Praise to you, Lord Jesus . the sacrificial meal of the New D G Christ, King of endless .. Covenant. glory!).. R A proclamation from the Book of Exodus Our blessing cup is a com- Gospel Jn 13:1-15. St. John assumed that all . D A D.. The Lord said to Moses and . Aaron in the land of Egypt, This the faithful were familiar with month shall stand at the head of the institution of the Eucharist.

8 Your calendar; you shall reckon munion with the blood of Christ! Hence, in his account of the it the first month of the year. Tell Last Supper he focuses the * How shall I make a return to attention of his readers on the the whole community of Israel: the Lord for all the good he has On the tenth of this month every virtues of humility and spirit done for me? The cup of salva- of loving service which should one of your families must pro- tion I will take up, and I will call cure for itself a lamb, one apiece characterize all those who upon the name of the Lord. R. participate in the Eucharistic for each household. If a family is too small for a whole lamb, it * Precious in the eyes of the celebration but especially shall join the nearest household Lord is the death of his faith- those who preside over it.

9 In procuring one and shall share ful ones. I am your servant, the P The Lord be with you! in the lamb in proportion to the son of your handmaid; you have All And with your spirit! number of persons who partake loosed my bonds. R. of it. P A proclamation from the * To you will I offer sacrifice of holy Gospel according to The lamb must be a year-old thanksgiving, and I will call upon male and without blemish. You the name of the Lord. My vows to John may take it from either the sheep All Glory to you, O Lord! the Lord I will pay in the presence or the shall keep it until of all his people. R. Before the feast of Passover, the fourteenth day of this month, Jesus knew that his hour had 29 March 2018. come to pass from this world to The priest goes to each of C For all our parishes: May the Father.

10 He loved his own in the selected disciples, pours they really be Eucharistic the world and he loved them to water over a foot of each one of communities, showing a spe- the end. them and dries it. cial love for those who suffer. The devil had already induced Some of the following an- Let us pray! R. Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, tiphons or other appropriate to hand him over. So, during hymns may be sung while this C For all of us gathered supper, fully aware that the Fa- ritual is performed. here to celebrate the sacra- ther had put everything into his ment of Christ's love: May power and that he had come from Antiphon 1 Jn 13 we preserve in daily life the God and was returning to God, After the Lord had risen unity and affection that we Jesus rose from supper and took from supper, he poured water nourish at the Table of the off his outer garments.