Liturgical Information
Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (A)

Liturgical Color: Green

Themes: charity, social concern, guidance, love, worship, community

Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:

You are just, O Lord, and your judgment is right;
treat your servant in accord with your merciful love. Psalm 119:137,124 [Roman Missal]

Iustus es Domine, et rectum iudicium tuum: fac cum servo tuo secundum misericordiam tuam.
Ps. Beati immaculati in via: qui ambulant in lege Domini. Psalm 119:137,124 [Graduale Romanum, p.332]

Iustus es Domine, et rectum iudicium tuum: fac cum servo tuo secundum misericordiam tuam.
Ps. Beati immaculati in via: qui ambulant in lege Domini. Psalm 119:137,124 [Gregorian Missal, p.542]

Choose one Antiphona ad introitum and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]

Collect:

O God, by whom we were redeemed and receive adoption,
look graciously upon your beloved sons and daugh- ters,

that those who believe in Christ
may receive true freedom
and an everlast- ing in- heritance.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Ho-ly Spirit,
one God, for ev-er and ev-er. A-men.

Lectionary Readings:

Ezekiel 33:7-9 [I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel. /v.7]
Psalm 95:1-2 / 6-7 / 8-9 [R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your heart. /v.8]
Romans 13:8-10 [Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law. /v.10]
Gospel Verse: II Cor 5:19 [God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.]
Matthew 18:15-20 [Where two or three have gathered together in My name, there I am in their midst. /v.20]

Offertory Antiphon:

I, Daniel, prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed: "Hear, therefore, O God, the prayer and petition of your servant. O Lord, let your face shine upon your sanctuary; be attentive and act without delay, because this city and your people bear your name!" Daniel 9:4a,17,19
Verses of Psalm 113 -or- Psalm 125 can also be sung between repetitions of the antiphon.

Oravi Deum meum ego Daniel, dicens: Exaudi, Domine, preces servi tui: illumina faciem tuam super sanctuarium tuum: et propitius intende de populum istum, super quem invocatum est nomen tuum, Deus. Daniel 9:4,2,17,19 [Graduale Romanum, p.334]

Choose one Antiphona ad offertorium and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]

Prayer over the Offerings:

O God, who give us the gift of true prayer and peace,
graciously grant that, through this offering,
we may do fitting homage to your majes- ty

and, by partaking of the sacred mystery,
we may be faithfully united in mind and heart.

Through Christ our Lord. A-men.

Preface VII of Sundays in Ordinary Time: [Salvation through the obedience of Christ]

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 you so loved the world
that in your mercy you sent us the Redeemer,
to live like us in all things but sin,
so that you might love in us what you loved in your Son,
by whose obedience we have been restored to those gifts of yours
that, by sinning, we had lost in disobedience.

And so, Lord, with all the Angels and Saints
we, too, give you thanks, as in exultation we acclaim:

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts…

Communion Antiphon:

Like the deer that yearns for running streams,
so my soul is yearning for you, my God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God. Psalm 42:2-3 [Roman Missal]

— or —

I am the light of the world, says the Lord;
whoever follows me will not walk in darkness,
but will have the light of life. John 8:12 [Roman Missal]

Vovete, et reddite Domino Deo vestro, omnes qui in circuitu eius affertis munera: terribili, et ei qui aufert spiritum principum: terribili apud omnes reges terræ.Psalm 76:12-13 [Graduale Romanum, p.335]
Psalm 76:2,3,4,5-6a,9,10 can also be sung between repetitions of this antiphon.

Choose one Antiphona ad communionem and Psalmus from any of the eight Masses for Ordinary Time [Graduale simplex, pp.215-252]

Prayer after Communion:

Grant that your faithful, O Lord,
whom you nourish and endow with life
through the food of your Word and heavenly Sacra- ment,

may so benefit from your beloved Son's great gifts
that we may merit an eternal share in his life.

Who lives and reigns for ev-er and ev-er. A-men.

Solemn Blessing: [13. Ordinary Time V]

May almighty God always keep every adversity far from you
and in his kindness pour out upon you the gifts of his blessing.
Amen.

May God keep your hearts attentive to his words,
that they may be filled with everlasting gladness.
Amen.

And so, may you always understand what is good and right,
and be found ever hastening along
in the path of God's commands,
and coheirs with the citizens of heaven.
Amen.

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

** An official, approved English translation of the Offertory Antiphon has never been published. The offertory antiphon used here is from the New American Bible, a Scripture translation approved for liturgical use in the United States.

The English translation of the Entrance Antiphon [Introit], Collect, Psalm Refrain, Gospel Verse, Prayer over the Offerings, Preface, Communion Antiphon, Prayer after Communion and Solemn Blessing from The Roman Missal, © Copyright 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corp. All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the First Reading, Second Reading and Gospel are taken from the New American Standard Bible ® © Copyright 1973 The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

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