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

Liturgical Color: Green

Themes: God's providential care, suffering for the Gospel, comfort, petition, prayer

Entrance Antiphon [Introit]:

Within your will, O Lord, all things are established,
and there is none that can resist your will.
For you have made all things, the heaven and the earth,
and all that is held within the circle of heaven;
you are the Lord of all. See Esther 4:17 [Roman Missal]

In voluntate tua, Domine, universa sunt posita, et non est qui possit resistere voluntati tuæ: tu enim fecisti omnia, cælum et terram, et universa quæ cæli ambitu continentur: Dominus universorum tu es.
Ps. Beati immaculati in via: qui ambulant in lege Domini. Esther 13:9,10-11/Psalm 119:1 [Graduale Romanum, p.346]

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

Collect:

Al- mighty ever-living God,
who in the abundance of your kindness
surpass the merits and desires of those who entreat you,

pour out your mercy upon us
to pardon what conscience dreads
and to give what prayer does not dare to ask.

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:

Isaiah 5:1-7 [The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel. /v.7]
Psalm 80:9,12 / 13-14 / 15-16 / 19-20 [R. The vineyard of the Lord is the house of Israel. /Is 5:7a]
Philippians 4:6-9 [The peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and your minds in CHrist Jesus. /v.7]
Gospel Verse: cf. Jn 15:16 [I have chosen you from the world, says the Lord, to go and bear fruit that will remain.]
Matthew 21:33-43 [He will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers. /v.41]

Offertory Antiphon:

There was a blameless and upright man named Job, who feared God. So Satan was given power over Job's possessions and over his flesh, and he destroyed his property and sons and smote Job with severe boils. Job 1:1b; 2:7
Verses of Psalm 113 -or- Psalm 125 can also be sung between repetitions of the antiphon.

Vir erat in terra nomine Iob, simplex et rectus, ac timens Deum: quem Satan petiit, ut tentaret: et data est ei potestas a Domino in facultate et in carne eius: perdiditque omnem substantiam ipsius, et filios: carnem quoque eius gravi ulcere vulneravit. [Graduale Romanum, p.349]

Vir erat in terra nomine Iob, simplex et rectus, ac timens Deum: quem Satan petiit, ut tentaret: et data est ei potestas a Domino in facultate et in carne eius: perdiditque omnem substantiam ipsius, et filios: carnem quoque eius gravi ulcere vulneravit. [Gregorian Missal, p.565]

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:

Ac- cept, O Lord, we pray,
the sacrifices instituted by your com- mands,

and, through the sacred mysteries,
which we celebrate with dutiful ser- vice,

gra- ciously complete the sanctifying work
by which you are pleased to re- deem us.

Through Christ our Lord. A-men.

Preface III of Sundays in Ordinary Time: [The salvation of man by a man]

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:

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts…

Communion Antiphon:

The Lord is good to those who hope in him,
to the soul that seeks him. Lam 3:25 [Roman Missal]

— or —

Though many, we are one bread, one body,
for we all partake of the one Bread and one Chalice. See I Cor 10:17 [Roman Missal]

In salutari tuo anima mea, et in verbum tuum speravi: quando facies de persequentibus me iudicium? iniqui persecuti sunt me, adiuva me, Domine Deus meus. [Graduale Romanum, p.350]
Psalm 119:1,41,85,87,113,123,157,161,166,174 can also be sung between repetitions of this antiphon.

In salutari tuo anima mea, et in verbum tuum speravi: quando facies de persequentibus me iudicium? iniqui persecuti sunt me, adiuva me, Domine Deus meus. [Gregorian Missal, p.565]

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 us, almighty God,
that we may be refreshed and nourished
by the Sacrament which we have re- ceived,

so as to be transformed into what we con- sume.

Through Christ our Lord. A-men.

Solemn Blessing: [11. Ordinary Time III]

May almighty God bless you in his kindness
and pour out saving wisdom upon you.
Amen.

May he nourish you always with the teachings of the faith
and make you persevere in holy deeds.
Amen.

May he turn your steps toward himself
and show you the path of charity and peace.
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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