St. Thomas More Parish A Roman Catholic Parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Holy Sacrifice of the Mass SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI June 13 & 14, 2020 5 p.m. | 10 a.m. | 7 p.m. St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scranton, Pennsylvania Decade of the Rosary / Silent Devotion Pew booklet p. 35, 36 Announcements Organ Prelude THE INTRODUCTORY RITES The People stand Organ Processional Introit , chanted by the Cantor as the Priest censes the Altar Cibaviteos plainsong He fed them with the finest wheat flour, alleluia, and with honey from the rock hath he satisfied them, alleluia, alleluia. Sing we merrily unto God our helper: Make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. He fed them… Sign of the Cross & Collect for Purity Priest In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. People Amen. Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen . The Summary of the Law , proclaimed by the Priest Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. Kyrie , sung by the Cantor Missa ‘de Angelis’ plainsong Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christe eleison. Christ, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us. Gloria in excelsis Missa ‘de Angelis’ plainsong Priest Glory be to God on high, Cantor and on earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen. The Collect of the Day Priest The Lord be with you. People And with thy spirit. Priest Let us pray. The People kneel. The Priest says O God, who in a wonderful Sacrament hast left unto us a memorial of thy Passion: grant us, we beseech thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of thy Body and Blood; that we may ever know within ourselves the fruit of thy redemption; who livest and reignest with the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen . THE LITURGY OF THE WORD The People sit The First Lesson Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a Moses spoke to the people, saying, “You shall re- who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the member all the way which the LORD your God has led house of bondage, who led you through the great and you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scor- humble you, testing you to know what was in your pions and thirsty ground where there was no water, heart, whether you would keep his commandments, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, who fed or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did did not know.” your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives Lector The Word of the Lord. by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the People Thanks be to God. LORD . And you shall remember the LORD your God, Gradual , sung by the Cantor Oculi omnium plainsong The eyes of all wait upon Thee, O Lord: and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thy hand: and fillest all things living with plenteousness. 2 The Second Lesson 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 Brethren: The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Lector The Word of the Lord. People Thanks be to God. The People stand Gospel Procession, Alleluia, & Verse , sung by the Cantor Caro mea vera plainsong Alleluia. Alleluia. My Flesh is meat indeed, and my Blood is drink indeed: he that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. Alleluia. The Gospel John 6:51-58 Priest The Lord be with you. People And with thy spirit. Priest A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John . People Glory be to thee, O Lord. Jesus said to the crowds of the Jews, “I am the living drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” The eats me will live because of me. This is the bread Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How which came down from heaven, not such as the fa- can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to thers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, un-less you eat the ever.” flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my Priest The Gospel of the Lord. blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last People Praise be to thee, O Christ . day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is The People sit The Homily Fr. Bergman The People stand The Nicene Creed Priest I believe in one God, People the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, 3 genuflect and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; arise and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost the Lord, and Giver of Life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. The Prayers of the People full text of the Intercessions: Pew booklet p. 29 The People kneel after the Priest’s invitation to prayer. The people respond after each intercession: Lord, have mercy. The final intercession is followed by the response: To thee, O Lord our God. After a concluding Collect or Doxology, the People acclaim: Amen. The Penitential Rite The Priest says Ye that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways: Draw near with faith, and make your humble confession to Almighty God, meekly kneeling upon your knees. Priest Almighty God, People Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, judge of all men: We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed against thy divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; the remembrance of them is grievous unto us, the burden of them is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us, most merciful Father; for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, forgive us all that is past; and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please thee in newness of life, to the honor and glory of thy Name; Through Jesus Christ our Lord.