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ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Ps 105: 47
Save us, O Lord our God!
And gather us from the nations,
to give thanks to your holy name,
and make it our glory to praise you.

COLLECT
Grant us, Lord our God,
that we may honour you with all our
mind, and love everyone in truth of
heart.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your
Son, who lives and reigns with you in
the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

Priest: In the name of the Father and
of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.
People: Amen.

Grace to you and peace from God our
Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
And with your spirit.

The absolution by the priest follows:
May almighty God have mercy on us,
forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.

PENITENTIAL ACT
Brethren (Brothers and sisters),
let us acknowledge our sins,
and so prepare ourselves to
celebrate the sacred mysteries.
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,
Striking your breast as you say:
through my fault, through my fault,
through my most grievous fault;

therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin,
all the Angels and Saints,
and you, my brothers and sisters,
to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.
Christ have mercy. Christ have mercy.
Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.

SIT

Christ be beside me,
Christ be before me,
Christ be behind me,
King of my heart,
Christ be within me,
Christ be below me,
Christ be above me,
Never to part.

Christ on my right hand,
Christ on my left hand,
Christ all around me,
Shield in the strife.
Christ in my sleeping,
Christ in my sitting,
Christ in my rising,
Light of my life.

GLORIA

Glory to God in the highest,
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 God, Son of the
Father,
you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us;
you take away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer;
you are seated at the right hand of
the Father,
have mercy on us.
For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father.
Amen.

1st February 2026

The Liturgy of the Word

Entrance Hymn

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

FIRST READING 2:3; 3:12-13
A reading from the prophet
Zephaniah

Seek the Lord
all you, the humble of the earth,
who obey his commands.
Seek integrity,
seek humility:
you may perhaps find shelter
on the day of the anger of the Lord.
In your midst I will leave
a humble and lowly people,
and those who are left in Israel will
seek refuge in the name of the Lord.
They will do no wrong,
will tell no lies;
and the perjured tongue will no longer
be found in their mouths.
But they will be able to graze and rest
with no one to disturb them.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

PROFESSION OF FAITH

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 the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation
he came down from heaven,
(All bow during the next three lines)
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate
of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.
For our sake he was crucified under
Pontius Pilate,
he suffered death and was buried,

PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL

SIT

Raising the host, the priest says:
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.
Blessed be God for ever.
The priest pours wine and a little water
into the chalice, saying quietly:
By the mystery of this water and wine
may we come to share in the divinity
of Christ,
who humbled himself to share in our
humanity.
Raising the chalice, the priest says:
Blessed are you, Lord, God of all
creation, for through your goodness
we have received the wine we offer
you: fruit of the vine and work of
human hands,
it will become our spiritual drink.
Blessed be God for ever.
Bowing the priest says quietly:
With humble spirit and contrite heart
may we be accepted by you, O Lord,
and may our sacrifice in your sight
this day be pleasing to you, O Lord.
Then the priest washes his hands, saying
quietly:
Wash me, O Lord, from my iniquity;
and cleanse me from my sin.

and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the
Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead
and his kingdom will have no end.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and
the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is
adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
I believe in one, holy, catholic and
apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the
forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to the resurrection
of the dead
and the life of the world to come.
Amen.

Liturgy of the EucharistSECOND READING 1:26-31
A reading from the first letter of
St Paul to the Corinthians

Take yourselves, brothers, at the time
when you were called: how many of you
were wise in the ordinary sense of the
word, how many were influential people,
or came from noble families? No, it was
to shame the wise that God chose what
is foolish by human reckoning and to
shame what is strong that he chose
what is weak by human reckoning; those
whom the world thinks common and
contemptible are the ones that God has
chosen – those who are nothing at all to
show up those who are everything. The
human race has nothing to boast about
to God, but you, God has made
members of Christ Jesus and by God’s
doing he has become our wisdom, and
our virtue, and our holiness, and our
freedom. As scripture says: if anyone
wants to boast, let him boast about the
Lord.

The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.

ACCLAMATION Mt 11:25
Alleluia, alleluia!

Blessed are you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,

for revealing the mysteries of the
kingdom to mere children.

Alleluia!

GOSPEL 5:1-12
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A reading from the holy Gospel
according to Matthew.
Glory to you, O Lord.

Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up the
hill. There he sat down and was joined
by his disciples. Then he began to
speak. This is what he taught them:

‘How happy are the poor in spirit;
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Happy the gentle:
they shall have the earth for their
heritage.
Happy those who mourn:
they shall be comforted.
Happy those who hunger and thirst for
what is right:
they shall be satisfied.
Happy the merciful:
they shall have mercy shown them.
Happy the pure in heart:
they shall see God.
Happy the peacemakers:
they shall be called sons of God.
Happy those who are persecuted in
the cause of right:
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

‘Happy are you when people abuse you
and persecute you and speak all kinds
of calumny against you on my account.
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will
be great in heaven.’

The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Ps 145:7-10. R Mt 5:3

R. How happy are the poor in spirit;
theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
1. It is the Lord who keeps faith for
ever,
who is just to those who are
oppressed.
It is he who gives bread to the
hungry,
the Lord, who sets prisoners free. R.

2. It is the Lord who gives sight to the
blind,
who raises up those who are bowed
down,
the Lord, who protects the stranger
and upholds the widow and orphan.
R.

3. It is the Lord who loves the just
but thwarts the path of the wicked.
The Lord will reign for ever,
Zion’s God, from age to age. R.

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.

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER III
PREFACE III Sundays in Ordinary Time:

The Lord be with you.
And with your Spirit.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right and just
It is truly right and just, our duty and
our salvation, always and everywhere
to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father,
almighty and eternal God.
For we know it belongs to your
boundless glory, that you came to the
aid of mortal beings with your divinity
and even fashioned for us a remedy
out of mortality itself,
that the cause of our downfall
might become the means of our
salvation, through Christ our Lord.
Through him the host of Angels
adores your majesty
and rejoices in your presence for ever.
May our voices, we pray, join with
theirs in one chorus of exultant praise,
as we acclaim:

PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
O Lord, we bring to your altar
these offerings of our service:
be pleased to receive them, we pray,
and transform them
into the Sacrament of our redemption.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

The mystery of faith:
We proclaim your Death, O Lord,
and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.

At the Saviour’s command
and formed by divine teaching,
we dare to say:
Our Father, who art in heaven . . .

Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil,
graciously grant peace in our days,
that, by the help of your mercy,
we may be always free from sin
and safe from all distress, as we await
the blessed hope and the coming of our
Saviour, Jesus Christ.
For the kingdom, the power and the
glory are yours, now and for ever.

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Facing the people the priest says:

Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters),
that my sacrifice and yours
may be acceptable to God,
the almighty Father.

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May the Lord accept the sacrifice at
your hands
for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good, and the good of all
his holy Church.

Then the Priest, with hands extended, says:
Therefore, O Lord, as we celebrate
the memorial of the saving Passion of
your Son,
his wondrous Resurrection and
Ascension into heaven, and as we
look forward to his second coming, we
offer you in thanksgiving this holy and
living sacrifice.
Look, we pray, upon the oblation of
your Church and, recognising the
sacrificial Victim by whose death
you willed to reconcile us to yourself,
grant that we, who are nourished by

You are indeed Holy, O Lord,
and all you have created
rightly gives you praise,
for through your Son our Lord Jesus

the Body and Blood of your Son and
filled with his Holy Spirit, may become
one body, one spirit in Christ.
May he make of us an eternal offering
to you, so that we may obtain an
inheritance with your elect,
especially with the most Blessed
Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
with blessed Joseph, her Spouse, with
the blessed Apostles and glorious
Martyrs (with Saint N., the Saint of the
day or Patron Saint) and with all the
Saints, on whose constant
intercession in your presence we rely
for unfailing help. May this Sacrifice of
our reconciliation, we pray, O Lord,
advance the peace and salvation of
all the world. Be pleased to confirm in
faith and charity your pilgrim Church
on earth, with your servant Leo, our
Pope, and N. our Bishop, his assistant
Bishop(s) the Order of Bishops, all the
clergy, and the entire people you have
gained for your own.
Listen graciously to the prayers of this
family, whom you have summoned
before you: in your compassion,
O merciful Father, gather to yourself
all your children scattered throughout
the world. To our departed brothers
and sisters and to all who were
pleasing to you at their passing from
this life, give kind admittance to your
kingdom. There we hope to enjoy for
ever the fullness of your glory
The Priest joins his hands.
through Christ our Lord,
through whom you bestow on the
world all that is good. †
The Priest takes the chalice and the paten
with the host and, elevating both, he says:
Through him, and with him, and in him,
O God, almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honour is yours,
for ever and ever. Amen.

Christ, by the power and working of
the Holy Spirit, you give life to all
things and make them holy, and you
never cease to gather a people to
yourself, so that from the rising of the
sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may
be offered to your name.
Therefore, O Lord, we humbly implore
you: by the same Spirit graciously
make holy these gifts we have
brought to you for consecration, that
they may become the Body and @
Blood of your Son our Lord Jesus
Christ, at whose command we
celebrate these mysteries.
For on the night he was betrayed
he himself took bread, and, giving you
thanks, he said the blessing,
broke the bread and gave it to his
disciples, saying:

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT
OF IT,
FOR THIS IS MY BODY,
WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR
YOU.

In a similar way, when supper was
ended, he took the chalice,
and, giving you thanks, he said the
blessing, and gave the chalice to his
disciples, saying:

TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND
DRINK FROM IT,
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY
BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND
ETERNAL COVENANT,
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT
FOR YOU AND FOR MANY
FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.

Communion Rite

COMMUNION ANTIPHON
Cf. Ps 30: 17-18

Let your face shine on your
servant.
Save me in your merciful love.
O Lord, let me never be put to
shame, for I call on you.

The peace of the Lord be with you always.
And with your Spirit.

The priest may add these or similar words.
Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

The priest places a small piece of the host in
the chalice saying quietly:
May this mingling of the body and
blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
bring eternal life to us who receive it.
Meanwhile the people sing or say:
Lamb of God, you take away the
sins of the world: have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the
sins of the world: have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the
sins of the world: grant us peace.

May the Body of Christ
keep me safe for eternal life.

The Priest reverently consumes the Body of
Christ.
Then he takes the chalice and says quietly:
May the Blood of Christ
keep me safe for eternal life.

The Priest raises a host slightly and shows it
to each of the communicants, saying:
The Body of Christ.
Amen.

The priest says quietly:
May the receiving of your Body and
Blood, Lord Jesus Christ,
not bring me to judgment and
condemnation, but through your loving
mercy be for me protection in mind
and body, and a healing remedy.

Raising the host the priest says:

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.

And together with the people he says once:
Lord, I am not worthy
that you should enter under my roof,
but only say the word
and my soul shall be healed.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Nourished by these redeeming gifts,
we pray, O Lord, that through this help
to eternal salvation
true faith may ever increase.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

I, the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin
my hand will save.
I who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send? (R)

R: Here I am, Lord. Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.

I, the Lord of snow and rain,
I have borne my people’s pain.
I have wept for love of them.
They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone,
give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak my word to them.
Whom shall I send?

This is my body, broken for you,
bringing you wholeness, making you
free.
Take it and eat it, and when you do,
do it in love for me.

This is my blood poured out for you,
bringing forgiveness, making you free.
Take it and drink it, and when you do,
do it in love for me.

Back to my Father, soon I shall go.
Do not forget me; then you will see
I am still with you, and you will know
you’re very close to me.

Filled with my Spirit, how you will grow!
You are my branches; I am the tree.
If you are faithful, others will know
you are alive in me.

Love one another – I have loved you,
and I have shown you how to be free;
serve one another, and when you do,
do it in love for me.

Imprimi Potest: Concordat Cum Originali: @ Most Rev. Alan McGuckian SJ, Bishop of Down and Connor. Nihil Obstat: Excerpts from
the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy corporation. Origination and
printing by Shanway Press, email: info@shanway.com T: 028 9022 2070

The Lord be with you.
And with your Spirit.

Solemn Blessing – Ordinary Time No12
May the God of all consolation order
your days in his peace and grant you
the gifts of his blessing. Amen.

May he free you always from every
distress and confirm your hearts in his
love. Amen.

So that on this life’s journey
you may be effective in good works,
rich in the gifts of hope, faith and
charity, and may come happily to
eternal life.
Amen.

And may the blessing of almighty God,
the Father, and the Son, X and the
Holy Spirit, come down on you and
remain with you for ever. Amen.

Go and announce the Gospel of the
Lord.
Thanks be to God.

My Jesus, increase my faith in the reality of
your presence in this most blessed
sacrament.
You are my Lord and my Lord really
present under the appearances of bread
and wine.
Yet it is so easy to become accustomed to
this truth: to take you for granted in this
sacrament as your townspeople took you
for granted in spite of their momentary
astonishment at the gracious words that
came from your lips.
Lord you had the courage to speak the
truth
even when you knew it would enrage.
Give me that same courage to bear
witness to you
in the words and actions of my daily life.
Help me to brace myself for action;
to do all you command me to do.
I trust in you for you are my God:
before you formed me, you knew me
and you will fight with me against my
weaknesses,
making me a pillar of iron, a wall of bronze,
so that Satan and the materialistic world
may never be able to overcome me
and snatch me out of your loving hands.

Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your
Apostles: Peace I leave you, my peace I
give you, look not on our sins, but on the
faith of your Church, and graciously
grant her peace and unity in accordance
with your will. Who live and reign for
ever and ever. Amen.

Communion Hymn

Private Prayer after Communion

Concluding Rites

Recessional Hymn