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Office of Readings for Saturday in Week 6 of Easter
God, come to my assistance.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
HYMN
Brightness of the Father's glory
In your ever-lasting radiance
Father of unfading glory.
Dawn is drawing ever nearer,
Glory be to God the Father.
PSALMODY
Ant. 1 Remember us, O Lord; come with your saving help, alleluia.
Psalm 106
I
O give thanks to the Lord for he is good:
They are happy who do what is right,
Come to me, Lord, with your help
Our sin is the sin of our fathers;
They forgot the greatness of your love;
He threatened the Red Sea; it dried up
The waters covered their oppressors;
But they soon forgot his deeds
He granted them the favor they asked
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Ant. Remember us, O Lord; come with your saving help, alleluia.
Ant. 2 Keep it carefully in mind; the Lord your God has made a covenant with you, alleluia.
II
They fashioned a calf at Horeb
They forgot the God who was their savior,
For this he said he would destroy them,
Then they scorned the land of promise:
So he raised his hand to swear an oath
They bowed before the Baal of Peor;
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened.
They provoked him at the waters of Meribah.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Ant. Keep it carefully in mind; the Lord your God has made a covenant with you, alleluia.
Ant. 3 Save your people, Lord; bring us together from among the nations, alleluia.
III
They failed to destroy the peoples
They worshiped the idols of the nations
They shed the blood of the innocent,
So they defiled themselves by their deeds
So he gave them into the hand of the nations
Time after time he rescued them,
For their sake he remembered his covenant.
O Lord, our God, save us!
Blessed be the Lord, God of Israel,
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Psalm-prayer
God, our Creator, how wonderfully you made man. You transformed dust into your own image and gave it a share in your own nature; yet you are more wonderful in pardoning the man who had rebelled against you. Grant that where sin has abounded, grace may more abound, so that we can become holier through forgiveness and be more grateful to you.
Ant. Save your people, Lord; bring us together from among the nations, alleluia.
Sacred Silence (indicated by a bell) – a moment to reflect and receive in our hearts the full resonance of the voice of the Holy Spirit and to unite our personal prayer more closely with the word of God and public voice of the Church.
My whole body rejoices, alleluia.
READINGS
First reading
Little children,
Beloved,
His commandment is this:
RESPONSORY 1 John 3:24; Sirach 1:9, 10
All who keep God’s commandments live in God and God lives in them.
In his Holy Spirit God created wisdom, which he has poured forth upon all creation and has offered to those who love him.
Second reading
When love has entirely cast out fear, and fear has been transformed into love, then the unity brought us by our savior will be fully realized, for all men will be united with one another through their union with the one supreme Good. They will possess the perfection ascribed to the dove, according to our interpretation of the text: One alone is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only child of her mother, her chosen one.
Our Lord’s words in the gospel bring out the meaning of this text more clearly. After having conferred all power on his disciples by his blessing, he obtained many other gifts for them by his prayer to the Father. Among these was included the greatest gift of all, which was that they were no longer to be divided in their judgment of what was right and good, for they were all to be united to the one supreme Good. As the Apostle says, they were to be bound together with the bonds of peace in the unity that comes from the Holy Spirit. They were to be made one body and one spirit by the one hope to which they were all called. We shall do better, however, to quote the sacred words of the gospel itself. I pray, the Lord says, that they all may be one; that as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so they also may be one in us.
Now the bond that creates this unity is glory. That the Holy Spirit is called glory no one can deny if he thinks carefully about the Lord’s words: The glory you gave to me, I have given to them. In fact, he gave this glory to his disciples when he said to them: Receive the Holy Spirit. Although he had always possessed it, even before the world existed, he himself received this glory when he put on human nature. Then, when his human nature had been glorified by the Spirit, the glory of the Spirit was passed on to all his kin, beginning with his disciples. This is why he said: The glory you gave to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, I want them to be perfectly one.
Whoever has grown from infancy to manhood and attained to spiritual maturity possesses the mastery over his passions and the purity that makes it possible for him to receive the glory of the Spirit. He is that perfect dove upon whom the eyes of the bridegroom rest when he says: One alone is my dove, my perfect one.
RESPONSORY See John 15:15; 14:26; 15:14
I no longer call you servants. Instead, I call you friends, for you have seen all the things I have done among you.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
CONCLUDING PRAYER
Constantly shape our minds,
ACCLAMATION (at least in the communal celebration)
Let us praise the Lord.
Ribbon Placement:
Office of Readings for Saturday in Week 6 of Easter
God, come to my assistance.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
HYMN
Brightness of the Father's glory
In your ever-lasting radiance
Father of unfading glory.
Dawn is drawing ever nearer,
Glory be to God the Father.
PSALMODY
Ant. 1 Remember us, O Lord; come with your saving help, alleluia.
Psalm 106
I
O give thanks to the Lord for he is good:
They are happy who do what is right,
Come to me, Lord, with your help
Our sin is the sin of our fathers;
They forgot the greatness of your love;
He threatened the Red Sea; it dried up
The waters covered their oppressors;
But they soon forgot his deeds
He granted them the favor they asked
The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Ant. Remember us, O Lord; come with your saving help, alleluia.
Ant. 2 Keep it carefully in mind; the Lord your God has made a covenant with you, alleluia.
II
They fashioned a calf at Horeb
They forgot the God who was their savior,
For this he said he would destroy them,
Then they scorned the land of promise:
So he raised his hand to swear an oath
They bowed before the Baal of Peor;
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened.
They provoked him at the waters of Meribah.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Ant. Keep it carefully in mind; the Lord your God has made a covenant with you, alleluia.
Ant. 3 Save your people, Lord; bring us together from among the nations, alleluia.
III
They failed to destroy the peoples
They worshiped the idols of the nations
They shed the blood of the innocent,
So they defiled themselves by their deeds
So he gave them into the hand of the nations
Time after time he rescued them,
For their sake he remembered his covenant.
O Lord, our God, save us!
Blessed be the Lord, God of Israel,
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit:
Psalm-prayer
God, our Creator, how wonderfully you made man. You transformed dust into your own image and gave it a share in your own nature; yet you are more wonderful in pardoning the man who had rebelled against you. Grant that where sin has abounded, grace may more abound, so that we can become holier through forgiveness and be more grateful to you.
Ant. Save your people, Lord; bring us together from among the nations, alleluia.
Sacred Silence (indicated by a bell) – a moment to reflect and receive in our hearts the full resonance of the voice of the Holy Spirit and to unite our personal prayer more closely with the word of God and public voice of the Church.
My whole body rejoices, alleluia.
READINGS
First reading
Little children,
Beloved,
His commandment is this:
RESPONSORY 1 John 3:24; Sirach 1:9, 10
All who keep God’s commandments live in God and God lives in them.
In his Holy Spirit God created wisdom, which he has poured forth upon all creation and has offered to those who love him.
Second reading
When love has entirely cast out fear, and fear has been transformed into love, then the unity brought us by our savior will be fully realized, for all men will be united with one another through their union with the one supreme Good. They will possess the perfection ascribed to the dove, according to our interpretation of the text: One alone is my dove, my perfect one. She is the only child of her mother, her chosen one.
Our Lord’s words in the gospel bring out the meaning of this text more clearly. After having conferred all power on his disciples by his blessing, he obtained many other gifts for them by his prayer to the Father. Among these was included the greatest gift of all, which was that they were no longer to be divided in their judgment of what was right and good, for they were all to be united to the one supreme Good. As the Apostle says, they were to be bound together with the bonds of peace in the unity that comes from the Holy Spirit. They were to be made one body and one spirit by the one hope to which they were all called. We shall do better, however, to quote the sacred words of the gospel itself. I pray, the Lord says, that they all may be one; that as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so they also may be one in us.
Now the bond that creates this unity is glory. That the Holy Spirit is called glory no one can deny if he thinks carefully about the Lord’s words: The glory you gave to me, I have given to them. In fact, he gave this glory to his disciples when he said to them: Receive the Holy Spirit. Although he had always possessed it, even before the world existed, he himself received this glory when he put on human nature. Then, when his human nature had been glorified by the Spirit, the glory of the Spirit was passed on to all his kin, beginning with his disciples. This is why he said: The glory you gave to me, I have given to them, so that they may be one as we are one. With me in them and you in me, I want them to be perfectly one.
Whoever has grown from infancy to manhood and attained to spiritual maturity possesses the mastery over his passions and the purity that makes it possible for him to receive the glory of the Spirit. He is that perfect dove upon whom the eyes of the bridegroom rest when he says: One alone is my dove, my perfect one.
RESPONSORY See John 15:15; 14:26; 15:14
I no longer call you servants. Instead, I call you friends, for you have seen all the things I have done among you.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
CONCLUDING PRAYER
Constantly shape our minds,
ACCLAMATION (at least in the communal celebration)
Let us praise the Lord.