PLEASE MAKE USE OF ANY OF THESE PRAYERS WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE HOST. The Host you have received has been consecrated. The prayers of consecration are given below in case you would like to pray them yourselves.
The Holy Eucharist. The Mass. Holy Communion
Loving God, giver of light and grace,
We have sinned against you and against our neighbour,
In what we have thought,
In what we have said and done,
Through ignorance, through weakness,
Through our own deliberate fault.
We have wounded your love
And marred your image in us.
We are sorry and ashamed
And repent of all our sins.
Forgive us all that is past
And lead us out from darkness
To walk as children of light.
AMEN
Absolution
God in his mercy and love, forgive you all your sins and grant you the grace and comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Amen
Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth. Lord God, Heavenly Ruler, almighty God and Guardian, we worship you, we give you thanks, we praise you for your glory. Saviour Jesus Christ, son of God, Great God, Lamb of God, you take away the sin of the world. Have mercy on us. You are seated at the right hand of God, receive our prayer. For you alone are the holy one, you alone are our Saviour, you alone are the most high, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God. Amen.
Readings from the Bible
Credo
I believe in one God, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of God before all ages; God of God, light of light; true God of true God; begotten, not made; consubstantial to the Creator, by whom all things were made. Who for us, and for our salvation, came down from heaven and became incarnate by the Holy Ghost, of the Virgin Mary; AND WAS MADE A PERSON. He was crucified also for us, suffered under Pontius Pilate, and was buried. And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, He sitteth at the right hand of God; and is to come again with glory, to judge both the living and the dead; of whose sovereignty there shall be no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the giver of life, who proceedeth from the Creator and the Redeemer; who together with the Creator and the Redeemer, is adored and glorified; who spoke by the Prophets. I believe in one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the remission of sins. And I expect the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
Prayers
Lift up your hearts. We lift them up unto our God Let us give thanks unto God It is meet and right so to do.
Almighty God,
Your face is turned towards your world.
In love you gave us Jesus your Son
To rescue us from sin and death.
Your Word goes out to call us home
To the city where angels sing your praise.
We join with them in heaven’s song.
Holy, holy, holy Lord God of Hosts. Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Saviour. Hosanna in the highest.
God of all, we give you thanks for every gift that comes from heaven.
To the darkness Jesus came as your light.
With signs of faith and words of hope
He touched untouchables with love
And washed the guilty clean.
This is his story:
THIS IS OUR SONG; HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
The crowds came out to see your Son,
Yet at the end they turned on him.
On the night he was betrayed
He came to table with his friends
To celebrate the freedom of your people.
This is his story:
THIS IS OUR SONG; HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
Jesus blessed you, Creator God, for the food;
He took bread, gave you thanks, broke it and said:
This is my body, given for you all.
Jesus then gave thanks for the wine;
He took the cup, gave it and said:
This is my blood, shed for you all
For the forgiveness of sins.
Do this in remembrance of me.
This is our story:
THIS IS OUR SONG; HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
Therefore Creator God, with this bread and this cup
We celebrate the cross
On which he died to us free.
Defying death he rose again
And is alive with you to plead for us and all the world.
This is our story:
THIS IS OUR SONG; HOSANNA IN THE HIGHEST.
Send your Spirit on us now
That by these gifts we may feed on Christ
With opened eyes and hearts on fire.
May we and all who share this food
Offer ourselves to live for you
And be welcomed at your feast in heaven
Where all creation worships you, Creator, Redeemer and Holy Spirit.
BLESSING AND HONOUR AND GLORY AND PRAISE BE YOURS FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.
Our Father and Mother, who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name; Thy Sovereignty 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 them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. AMEN.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, give us peace
WE do not presume to come to this thy Table, 0 merciful God, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same God, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.
NOW PLEASE RECEIVE THE HOST
God of all, we give you thanks and praise,
That when we were still far off you met us in your
Son and brought us home.
Dying and living he declared your love, gave us grace
And opened the gate of glory.
May we who share Christ’s body live his risen life.
We who drink his blood bring life to others,
We whom the Spirit lights give light to the world.
Keep us firm in the hope you have set before us so that we and all your children shall be free and the whole earth live to praise your name, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Benediction
May Almighty God the Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier bless you.
