Chrism Mass

The Chrism Mass for the Diocese takes place at 7.30pm on Monday 6th April 2020.

The Mass will be broadcast on iCatholic.ie

Readings are as follows:

Thursday 9 April 2020
Maundy Thursday – Chrism Mass (see also Evening Mass)

Readings at Mass
Here are the readings for the morning Chrism Mass:
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Entrance AntiphonRv 1: 6
Jesus Christ has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father.To him be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen.

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Collect
O God, who anointed your Only Begotten Son with the Holy Spiritand made him Christ and Lord,graciously grantthat, being made sharers in his consecration,we may bear witness to your Redemption in the world.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.

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First readingIsaiah 61:1-3,6,8-9

The spirit of the Lord has been given to me,for the Lord has anointed me.He has sent me to bring good news to the poor,to bind up hearts that are broken;
to proclaim liberty to captives,freedom to those in prison;to proclaim a year of favour from the Lord,a day of vengeance for our God,
to comfort all those who mourn and to give themfor ashes a garland;for mourning robe the oil of gladness,for despondency, praise.
But you, you will be named ‘priests of the Lord’,they will call you ‘ministers of our God.’I reward them faithfullyand make an everlasting covenant with them.
Their race will be famous throughout the nations,their descendants throughout the peoples.All who see them will admitthat they are a race whom the Lord has blessed.

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PsalmPsalm 88:21-22,25,27
I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.
I have found David my servant    and with my holy oil anointed him.My hand shall always be with him    and my arm shall make him strong.
I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.
My truth and my love shall be with him;    by my name his might shall be exalted.He will say to me: ‘You are my father,    my God, the rock who saves me.’
I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.

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Second readingApocalypse 1:5-8
Grace and peace to you from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the First-born from the dead, the Ruler of the kings of the earth. He loves us and has washed away our sins with his blood, and made us a line of kings, priests to serve his God and Father; to him, then, be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen. It is he who is coming on the clouds; everyone will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the races of the earth will mourn over him. This is the truth. Amen. ‘I am the Alpha and the Omega’ says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.

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Gospel AcclamationIs61:1(Lk4:18)
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!The spirit of the Lord has been given to me.He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor.Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!

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GospelLuke 4:16-21
Jesus came to Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read and they handed him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it is written:
The spirit of the Lord has been given to me,for he has anointed me.He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor,to proclaim liberty to captivesand to the blind new sight,to set the downtrodden free,to proclaim the Lord’s year of favour.
He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to speak to them, ‘This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.’

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Prayer over the Offerings
May the power of this sacrifice, O Lord, we pray,mercifully wipe away what is old in usand increase in us grace of salvation and newness of life.Through Christ our Lord.

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Communion AntiphonPs 88: 2
I will sing for ever of your mercies, O Lord;through all ages my mouth will proclaim your fidelity.

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Prayer after Communion
We beseech you, almighty God,that those you renew by your Sacramentsmay merit to become the pleasing fragrance of Christ.Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.

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