Cathedral of the Holy Cross BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Fourth of Laetare Sunday 14 MARCH 2021

PRELUDE Lover of Souls, Clark Michael González, tenor

Wisdom 11:24, 25, 27; Ps 56: Your mercy extends to all things, O Lord, and you despise none of the things you have made. You overlook our sins for the sake of repentance. You grant them your pardon, because you are the Lord our God. (Psalm verse): Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul confides in you. Wisdom 11:26: But you spare all things, because they are yours, O Lord, Lover of Souls.

INTRODUCTORY RITES

INTROIT Laetare Jerusalem, Mode V (Is 66: 10, 11) Rejoice Jerusalem, and all you that love her gather together; rejoice with her in gladness, you who were in mourning, that you may exult and be replenished with the consolation flowing from her motherly bosom. (Ps 122: 1) Vs. I rejoiced at what was said to me, we shall go into the house of the Lord.

ENTRANCE HYMN Rejoice Jerusalem DARWALL's 148th, text: Kathy Pluth

GREETING

KYRIE 4: 30PM ~ of the Angels, Clark 11:30am ~ Missa in C, K. 259, W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

COLLECT

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING Chronicals 36:14-16, 19-23

IN THOSE DAYS, all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added infidelity to infidelity, practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the LORD’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. Early and often did the LORD, the God of their fathers, send his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his warnings, and scoffed at his prophets, until the anger of the LORD against his people was so inflamed that there was no remedy. Their enemies burnt the house of God, tore down the walls of Jerusalem, set all its palaces afire, and destroyed all its precious objects. Those who escaped the sword were carried captive to Babylon, where they became servants of the king of the Chaldeans and his sons until the kingdom of the Persians came to power. All this was to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah: “Until the land has retrieved its lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled.” In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORDspoken by Jeremiah, the LORD inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this proclamation throughout his kingdom, both by word of mouth and in writing: “Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the LORD, the God of heaven, has given to me, and he has also charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever, therefore, among you belongs to any part of his people, let him go up, and may his God be with him!” The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL : 1–2, 3–4, 5, 6, Marier

Ant.: Let my tongue be silenced, if ever I forget you.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept, remembering Zion; on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps.

For it was there that they askd us, our captors, for songs, our oppressors, for joy. “Sing to us,” they said, “one of Zion’s songs.” O how could we sing the song of the Lord on foreign soil?

Let my right hand wither, if I forget you, Jerusalem! O let my tongue cleave fast to my palate of I remember you not, if I prize not Jerusalem, the first of my joys! SECOND READING Ephesians 2: 4-10

BROTHERS AND SISTERS: God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ—by grace you have been saved—, raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavens in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast. For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.

The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Mass of the Angels, Clark V. GOD SO LOVED the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.

GOSPEL John 3: 14-21

JESUS SAID TO Nicodemus: “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. HOMILY

CREDO

UNIVERSAL PRAYER

THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Laudate Dominum, quia, Ps. 135 (134): 3-6, Fr. S. Weber Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good; sing to his name, for he is gracious! Whatever the Lord pleases he does in heaven and on earth PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

SANCTUS Mass of the Angels

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION

AMEN

THE COMMUNION RITE

LORD’S PRAYER

THE RITE OF PEACE

AGNUS DEI Mass of the Angels

COMMUNION ANTIPHON Ant. CF. PS 122 (121) :3-4, RJC Jerusalem is built as a city bonded as one together. It is there that the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name of the Lord.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

THE CONCLUDING RITE

THE DISMISSAL

RECESSIONAL Ave regina caelorum, Mode VI Hail, queen of heaven, hail lady of the angels. Hail, root, hail the door through which the Light of the world is risen. Rejoice, glorious Virgin, beautiful above all. Hail, O very fair one, and plead for us to Christ.

Vere languores nostros Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. And with his stripes we are healed. Sweetest wood, and sweetest iron, sweetest weight is hung on thee. Thou alone was counted worthy this world’s ransom to uphold.

POSTLUDE Misereris omnium ~ Atonement, Transformation, Clark

Richard J. Clark, Archdiocesan and Cathedral Director of Music and Organist E | [email protected] www.holycrossboston.com

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Acknowledgments: Psalm 137, T. Marier Music Copyright © 1999, Boston Boy Choir, Inc. Used with permission. Text: The Abbey Psalms and Canticles, prepared by the monks of Conception Abbey Copyright © 2010, 2018 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC. Jerusalem, built as a city © 2013, 2015 WLP/GIA Publications. Reprinted under OneLicense.net A-700140. Scripture readings © 1998, 2010 International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Washington, DC. All other material from the public domain.