North District Mass @ Cathedral 2017

Date/Time: Fri 17 Feb 2017 @ 7:30pm
Venue: Cathedral of the Good Shepherd

Timings

6.45-7.00pm: Preparation
7.00-7.20pm: Rosary recitation organized by St. Joseph’s Church (Bukit Timah)
7.20-7.30pm: Silent Reflection on theme “Generosity” (Jn 3:16)
7.30-8.45pm: Mass with North District priests presiding

Repertoire

Entrance: Praise to the Lord
Responsorial Psalm: Happy The People The Lord Has Chosen As His Own
Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia
Offertory: These Alone Are Enough
Communion 1: One Bread, One Body
Communion 2: Ubi Caritas (Taize)
Recessional: We Are Sent Into The World (1-up version)

Mass Ordinaries:
New Roman Missal (Kyrie, other chants as appropriate)
Christ The Savior (Holy)
Celtic Mass (Pater Noster) (Agnus Dei)

(Hymn lyrics in text form: Lyrics.txt)

Liturgy of the Word

Friday of Week 6 in Ordinary Time (Year I)
or The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order
Liturgical Colour: Green.

First Reading – Genesis 11:1-9

Throughout the earth men spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary. Now as they moved eastwards they found a plain in the land of Shinar where they settled. They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire.’ (For stone they used bricks, and for mortar they used bitumen). ‘Come,’ they said ‘let us build ourselves a town and a tower with its top reaching heaven. Let us make a name for ourselves, so that we may not be scattered about the whole earth.’

Now the Lord came down to see the town and the tower that the sons of man had built. ‘So they are all a single people with a single language!’ said the Lord. ‘This is but the start of their undertakings! There will be nothing too hard for them to do. Come, let us go down and confuse their language on the spot so that they can no longer understand one another.’ The Lord scattered them thence over the whole face of the earth, and they stopped building the town. It was named Babel therefore, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth. It was from there that the Lord scattered them over the whole face of the earth.

Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 32(33):10-15

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.

He frustrates the designs of the nations,
he defeats the plans of the peoples.
His own designs shall stand for ever,
the plans of his heart from age to age.

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.

They are happy, whose God is the Lord,
the people he has chosen as his own.
From the heavens the Lord looks forth,
he sees all the children of men.

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.

From the place where he dwells he gazes
on all the dwellers on the earth;
he who shapes the hearts of them all;
and considers all their deeds.

Happy the people the Lord has chosen as his own.

Gospel Acclamation – 1 John 2:5

Alleluia, alleluia!
Whenever anyone obeys what Christ has said,
God’s love comes to perfection in him.
Alleluia!

Gospel – Mark 8:34-9:1

Jesus called the people and his disciples to him and said, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. What gain, then, is it for a man to win the whole world and ruin his life? And indeed what can a man offer in exchange for his life? For if anyone in this adulterous and sinful generation is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’ And he said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power.’