EUCHARISTIC PRAYER FOR
MASSES OF
RECONCILIATION
II
The priest, with hands extended, continues:
Celebrant alone
Father, all-powerful and ever-living
God,
we praise and thank you through Jesus
Christ our Lord
for your presence and action in the
world.
In the midst of conflict and division,
we know it is you
who turn our minds to thoughts of
peace.
Your Spirit changes our hearts:
enemies begin to speak to one another,
those who were estranged join hands in
friendship,
and nations seek the way of peace
together.
Your Spirit is at work
when understanding puts an end to
strife,
when hatred is quenched by mercy,
and vengeance gives way to forgiveness.
For this we should never cease
to thank and praise you.
We join with all the choirs of heaven
as they sing for ever to your glory:
All say:
Holy, holy,
holy Lord, God of power and might.
Heaven and earth are full of your
glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of
the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
The priest, with hands extended, says:
Celebrant alone
God of power and might,
we praise you through your Son, Jesus
Christ,
who comes in your name.
He is the Word that brings salvation.
He is the hand you stretch out to
sinners.
He is the way that leads to your peace.
God, our Father,
we had wandered far from you,
but through your Son you have brought
us back.
You gave him up to death
so that we might turn again to you
and find our way to one another.
Therefore we celebrate the
reconciliation
Christ has gained for us.
He joins his hands and, holding them outstretched over the
offerings, says:
We ask you to sanctify these gifts
by the power of your Spirit,
He joins his hands and making the sign of the cross once over both
bread and chalice, says:
as we now fulfill your Son’s command.
With hands joined, he continues:
While he was at supper
on the night before he died for us,
He takes the bread and, raising it a little above the altar,
continues:
he took bread in his hands,
and gave you thanks and praise.
He broke the bread,
gave it to his disciples, and said:
He bows slightly.
Take this, all you, and eat it:
this is my body which will be given up
for you.
He shows the consecrated host to the
people, places it on the paten, and genuflects in adorations.
Then he continues:
At the end of the meal he took the cup.
He takes the chalice and, raising it a little above the altar,
continues:
Again he praised you for your goodness,
gave the cup to his disciples, and
said:
He bows slightly.
Take this, all of you, and drink from it:
this is the cup of my blood,
the blood of the new and everlasting
covenant.
It will be shed for you and for all
so that sins may be forgiven.
Do this in memory of me.
He shows the chalice to the people, places it on the corporal and
genuflects in adoration. He sings or says:
Let
us proclaim the mystery of faith:
Then the people take up the acclamation in these words:
a.
Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.
b.
Dying
you destroyed our death,
rising you restored our life.
Lord Jesus, come in glory.
c.
When
we eat this bread and drink this cup,
we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus,
until you come in glory.
d.
Lord,
by your cross and resurrection
you have set us free.
You are the Savior of the world.
Then, with hands extended, the priest says:
Lord our God,
your son has entrusted to us
this pledge of his love.
We celebrate the memory of his death
and resurrection
and bring you the gift you have given
us,
the sacrifice of reconciliation.
Therefore, we ask you, Father,
to accept us, together with you Son.
Fill us with his Spirit
through our sharing in this meal.
May he take away all that divides us.
May this Spirit keep us always in
communion
with John Paul, our pope, Joseph, our
bishop,
with all the bishops and all your
people.
Father, make you Church throughout the
world
a sign of unity and an instrument of
your peace.
You have gathered us here
around the table of your Son,
in fellowship with the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and all the
saints.
In that new world where the fullness of your peace will be
revealed, gather people of every race, language, and way of life
to share in the one eternal banquet.
He joins his hands.
with
Jesus Christ the Lord.
He takes the chalice and the paten with the host and, lifting them
up, he sings or says:
Through
him,
with him,
in him,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is yours,
almighty Father,
for ever and ever.
The people respond:
Amen.