Prayer before Mass: Almighty and ever-living God, I approach the sacrament of Your only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. I come sick to the doctor of life, unclean to the fountain of mercy, blind to the radiance of eternal light, and poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and earth. Lord, in Your great generosity, heal my sickness, wash away my defilement, enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty, and clothe my nakedness. May I receive the Bread of Angels, the King of kings and Lord of lords, with humble reverence, with the purity and faith, the repentance and love, and the determined purpose that will help to bring me to salvation.
May I receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood, and its reality and power. Kind God, may I receive the Body of Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of the Virgin Mary, and so be received into His mystical body and numbered among His members.
Loving Father, as on my earthly pilgrimage I now receive Your beloved Son under the veil of a sacrament, may I one day see Him face to face in glory, who lives and reigns with You forever. Amen. By Knights of the Holy Eucharist. Readings Lectures Reflection
First Reading
The one who
sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified are of the same stock
God did not
appoint angels to be rulers of the world to come, and that world is what we are
talking about. Somewhere there is a passage that shows us this. It runs: What
is man that you should spare a thought for him, the son of man that you should
care for him? For a short while you made him lower than the angels; you crowned
him with glory and splendour. You have put him in command of everything. Well
then, if he has put him in command of everything, he has left nothing
which is not under his command. At present, it is true, we are not able to see
that everything has been put under his command, but we do see in
Jesus one who was for a short while made lower than the angels and is
now crowned with glory and splendour because he submitted to death;
by God’s grace he had to experience death for all mankind.
As it was his
purpose to bring a great many of his sons into glory, it was appropriate that
God, for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make
perfect, through suffering, the leader who would take them to their salvation.
For the one who sanctifies, and the ones who are sanctified, are of the same
stock; that is why he openly calls them brothers in the text: I
shall announce your name to my brothers, praise you in full assembly.
Responsorial Psalm
You gave your Son Power over the works of your hand
Gospel
Unlike the
scribes, he taught them with authority
Jesus and his
disciples went as far as Capernaum, and as soon as the sabbath came he went to
the synagogue and began to teach. And his teaching made a deep impression on
them because, unlike the scribes, he taught them with authority.
In their
synagogue just then there was a man possessed by an unclean spirit and it
shouted, ‘What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy
us? I know who you are: the Holy One of God.’ But Jesus said sharply, ‘Be
quiet! Come out of him!’ And the unclean spirit threw the man into convulsions
and with a loud cry went out of him. The people were so astonished that they
started asking each other what it all meant. ‘Here is a teaching that is new’
they said ‘and with authority behind it: he gives orders even to unclean
spirits and they obey him.’ And his reputation rapidly spread everywhere,
through all the surrounding Galilean countryside.
All power belong to God, all power belong to Jesus Christ, the Son of God most High. In the name of Jesus Christ every kneel must bow.
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