Graduation Mass Rites
Graduation Mass Rites
Graduation Mass Rites
INTRODUCTORY RITES
Processional
All: Amen.
PENITENTIAL RITE
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the mystery of Christ’s love,
let us acknowledge our failures and ask the
Lord for pardon and strength.
ALL: Amen.
Kyrie (sung)
*GLORIA
OPENING PRAYER
All: Amen.
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First Reading
As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John,
all the people hurried in amazement toward them
in the portico called "Solomon's Portico."
When Peter saw this, he addressed the people,
"You children of Israel, why are you amazed at this,
and why do you look so intently at us
as if we had made him walk by our own power or piety?
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus
whom you handed over and denied in Pilate's presence,
when he had decided to release him.
You denied the Holy and Righteous One
and asked that a murderer be released to you.
The author of life you put to death,
but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.
And by faith in his name,
this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong,
and the faith that comes through it
has given him this perfect health,
in the presence of all of you.
Now I know, brothers and sisters,
that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;
but God has thus brought to fulfillment
what he had announced beforehand
through the mouth of all the prophets,
that his Christ would suffer.
Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,
and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment
and send you the Christ already appointed for you, Jesus,
whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration
of which God spoke through the mouth
of his holy prophets from of old.
A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.
Everyone who does not listen to that prophet
will be cut off from the people.
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and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors
when he said to Abraham,
In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you
by turning each of you from your evil ways."
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
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Priest: A reading from the Holy Gospel according
to John
The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way,
and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.
He said to them,
"These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled."
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them,
"Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise from the dead on the third day
and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be preached in his name
to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things."
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Be seated quietly for the homily
HOMILY
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ALL: Lord Hear Our Prayer
All: Amen.
Preface
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With steadfast love we sing your unending
praise; we join with the hosts of heaven in
their triumphant song:
Sanctus (sung)
CANON II
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All: We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.
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COMMUNION RITE
All: For the kingdom, the power and the glory are
yours now and forever.
SIGN OF PEACE
All: Amen.
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Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who
takes away the sins of the world. Blessed
are those called to the supper of the Lamb.
All: Amen.
All: Amen.
All: Amen.
All: Amen.
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