Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. 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.
Author Archives: Cathy Behrens
Preface Dialogue
Priest: The Lord be with you. People: And with your spirit. Priest: Lift up your hearts. People: We lift them up to the Lord. Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. People It is right and just.
Invitation to Prayer
Priest: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you: fruit of the earth and work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of life. People: Blessed be God for ever! Priest: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for […]
Prayer for Vocations
Heavenly Father, bless Your church with an abundance of holy and zealous priests, deacons, brothers and sisters. Give those You have called to the married state and those You have chosen to live as single persons in the world, the special graces that their lives require. Form us all in the likeness of Your Son […]
The Nicene Creed
I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with […]
Gloria
Priest: Glory to God in the highest, Everyone: and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of […]
Penitential Act
I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do. (strike your breast three times with the following:) Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous […]
Our Father
Priest: At the Saviour’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say: People: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those […]
Ave Maris Stella (Hail Star of the Sea)
Hail, bright star of ocean, God’s own Mother blest, Ever sinless Virgin, Gate of heavenly rest. Taking that sweet Ave Which from Gabriel came, Peace confirm within us, Changing Eva’s name. Break the captives’ fetters, Light on blindness pour, All our ills expelling, Every bliss implore. Show thyself a Mother; May the Word Divine, Born […]
Rosary
Begin the Rosary by saying the Apostles’ Creed on the cross of your rosary, followed by one Our Father, three Hail Mary’s and one Glory Be on the beads between the cross and the centerpiece. Then pray the five decades of the Rosary according to which day it is (see each mystery below). Each decade […]
