You are indeed Holy, O Lord, and all you have created
rightly gives you praise, for through your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, by the
power and working of the Holy Spirit, you give life to all things and make them
holy, and you never cease to gather a people to yourself, so that from the
rising of the sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name.
Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore
you: by the same Spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have brought to you
for consecration, that they may become the Body and Blood of your Son our Lord
Jesus Christ, at whose command we celebrate these mysteries.
For on the night he was betrayed he
himself took bread, and, giving you thanks, he said the blessing, broke the
bread and gave it to his disciples, saying: 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, giving you thanks, he said the blessing, and
gave the chalice 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.
The
mystery of faith.
We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.
Therefore,
O Lord, as we celebrate the memorial of the saving Passion of your Son, his
wondrous Resurrection and Ascension into heaven, and as we look forward to his
second coming, we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice.
Look, we
pray, upon the oblation of your Church and, recognizing the sacrificial Victim
by whose death you willed to reconcile us to yourself, grant that we, who are
nourished
by the
Body and Blood of your Son and filled with his Holy Spirit, may become one
body, one spirit in Christ.
May he
make of us an eternal offering to you, so that we may obtain an inheritance
with your elect, especially with the most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
with your blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs (with Saint N.: the Saint of
the day or Patron Saint) and with all the Saints, on whose constant
intercession in your presence we rely for unfailing help.
May this
Sacrifice of our reconciliation, we pray, O Lord, advance the peace and
salvation of all the world. Be pleased to confirm in faith and charity
your pilgrim Church on earth, with your servant N. our Pope and N. our Bishop,
the Order of Bishops, all the clergy, and the entire people you have gained for
your own.
Listen
graciously to the prayers of this family, whom you have summoned before you: in
your compassion, O merciful Father, gather to yourself all your children
scattered throughout the world.
To our
departed brothers and sisters and to all who were pleasing to you at their
passing from this life, give kind admittance to your kingdom.
There we
hope to enjoy for ever the fullness of your glory through Christ our Lord,
through whom you bestow on the world all that is good.
Through
him, and with him, and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, all glory and honour is yours, for ever and ever.
Amen.
