Introductory Rite:
God, come to my assistance R/ Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
R/ as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia.
Verse 1
Blest are you, the poor who trust the Father with your lives.
For within your heart is born, the kingdom of the Lord.
Blest are you the sorrowing, who know your Father wise.
For within your heart is born the kingdom of the Lord.
Verse 2
Blest are you, the lowly ones, who know your need to share.
For within your heart is born the kingdom of the Lord.
Blest are you whose searching souls will draw you to God’s care.
For within your heart is born the kingdom of the Lord.
Refrain
Let your light shine for all the world to see
The brightness of your life within, the peace that sets you free.
Let your light shine to fill your nights and days;
All will see the deeds you do and give your father praise.
Verse 3
Blest are you whose mercy shows the Father’s love to all.
For within your heart is born the kingdom of the Lord.
Blest are you the pure in heart, who live the Father’s call.
For within your heart is born the kingdom of the Lord.
Verse 4
Blest are you who work for peace among the Father’s own,
For within your heart is born the kingdom of the Lord.
Blest are you who suffer hate to prepare the day to come,
For within your heart is born the kingdom of the Lord.
Refrain
PSALMODY
Antiphon 1:The Holy Spirit had revealed to Simeon that he would not see death until he had seen the Lord.
The Lord’s revelation to my Master: ”Sit on my right: your foes I will put beneath your feet.”
The Lord will wield from Zion
your scepter of power:
rule in the midst of all your foes.
A prince from the day of your birth
on the holy mountains;
from the womb before the dawn I begot you.
The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change.
“You are a priest for ever,
a priest like Melchizedeck of old.”
The Master standing at your right hand
will shatter kings in the day of his wrath.
He shall drink from the stream by the wayside
and therefore he shall lift up his head. Glory…
Antiphon 1: The Holy Spirit had revealed to Simeon that he would not see death until he had seen the Lord.
Antiphon 2 As the law prescribed, they offered to the Lord a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord, Lord, hear my voice! O let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleading.
If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive? But with you is found forgiveness: for this we revere you.
My soul is waiting for the Lord. I count on his word. My soul is longing for the Lord more than watchman for daybreak. Let the watchman count on daybreak and Israel on the Lord.
Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption, Israel indeed he will redeem from all its iniquity. Glory…
Antiphon 2 As the law prescribed, they offered to the Lord a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.
.Antiphon 3 My own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people.
Let us give thanks to the Father for having made you worthy to share the lot of the saints in light.
He rescued us from the power of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son. Through him we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creatures. In him everything in heaven and on earth was created, things visible and invisible.
All were created through him; all were created for him. He is before all else that is. In him everything continues in being.
It is he who is head of the body, the church; he who is the beginning, the first-born of the dead, so that primacy may be his in everything.
It pleased God to make absolute fullness reside in him and, by means of him, to reconcile everything in his person, both on earth and in the heavens, making peace through the blood of his cross. Glory…
Antiphon 3 My own eyes have seen the salvation which you have prepared in the sight of every people.
Gloria (All Stant)
Opening Prayer
Liturgy of the Word
Homily
INTERCESSIONS
Today our Savior was presented in the temple. Let us adore him as we say:
Lord, may our eyes see your saving power.
Christ Jesus, you are the light that enlightens all nations,
– shine upon those who do not know you, that they may come to believe in you, the one, true God.
You are the redeemer and glory of your people Israel,
– may your Church proclaim your salvation to the ends of the earth.
Jesus, desire of the nations, Simeon, the just man, rejoiced at your coming,
– lead all men to recognize that you still come to them.
Lord, when you were presented in the temple, Simeon foretold that a sword of sorrow would pierce your mother’s heart,
– strengthen us to accept the sufferings we endure for the sake of your name.
Christ Jesus, joy of all the saints, Simeon longed to see you before he died, and his prayer was answered,
– hear our plea for all the dead who still yearn to see you face to face.
Presider:
Almighty ever-living God,
we humbly implore your majesty
that, just as your Only Begotten Son
was presented on this day in the Temple
in the substance of our flesh,
so, by your grace,
we may be presented to you with minds made pure.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Lord’s Prayer
Pater noster, qui es in cælis
Sanctificétur nomen tuum
Advéniat regnum tuum
Fiat volúntas tua
Sicut in cælo et in terra
Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie
Et dimítte nobis débita nostra
Sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris
Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem
Sed libera nos a malo
MAGNIFICAT (Canticle of Mary)
Antiphon: Today, the Blessed Virgin Mary presented the Child Jesus in the temple; and Simeon, inspired by the Holy Spirit, took him in his arms, and gave thanks to God.
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
my spirit sings to God, my saving God,
who on this day above all others favored me
and raised me up, a light for all to see.
Through me great deeds will God make manifest,
and all the earth will come to call me blest.
Unbounded love and mercy sure will I proclaim
for all who know and praise God ́s holy name.
God ́s mighty arm, protector of the just, will guard the weak and raise them from the dust. But mighty kings will swiftly fall from thrones corrupt. The strong brought low, the lowly lifted up. Soon will the poor and hungry of the earth be richly blest, be given greater worth. And Israel, as once foretold to Abraham, will live in peace throughout the promised land. All glory be to God, Creator blest, to Jesus Christ, God ́s love made manifest, and to the Holy Spirit, gentle Comforter, all glory be, both now and ever more.
Antiphon: Today, the Blessed Virgin Mary presented the Child Jesus in the temple; and Simeon, inspired by the Holy Spirit, took him in his arms, and gave thanks to God.
MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST WHAT SHALL I ASK OF THEE?
I DO NOT SIGH FOR THE WEALTH OF EARTH FOR THE JOYS THAT FADE AND FLEE, BUT…MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST THIS DO I LONG TO SEE
THE BLISS UNTOLD WHICH YOUR ARMS ENFOLD
THE TREASURE UPON YOUR KNEE
MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST I TOSS ON A STORMY SEA
OH LIFT YOUR CHILD AS A BEACON LIGHT TO THE PORT WHERE I FAIN WOULD BE, AND…MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF CHRIST THIS DO I ASK OF THEE
WHEN THE VOYAGE IS O’ER
OH STAND ON THE SHORE AND
SHOW HIM AT LAST TO ME.