Third Sunday of Lent

3rd Sunday of Lent, 20th March 2022

Opening Song

God of mercy and compassion,

Lord of life and blinding light.

Truth whom creatures would refashion,

Place on us the gift of sight.

CHORUS

Truth insistent and demanding,

Love resented and ignored,

Life beyond all understanding,

Give us peace and pardon, Lord.

God most holy and forgiving,

Penetrate our pride and sloth;

On a people partly living,

Place the gift of life and growth.

Lord, who out of love consented

To the worst that we could do;

Lord, abandoned and tormented,

Let us love and suffer too.

Words & Tune: Michael Hodgetts

Penitential Act

Repeat after Cantor:

Kyrie Eleison (Kyrie Eleison)

Christe Eleison (Christe Eleison),

Kyrie Eleison (Kyrie Eleison)

Mass of Holy Trinity | Music by Mike Stanley and Andy Ross © CJM MUSIC

Gloria

Omitted during Lent:

Mass of St Bernadette | Music by Mike Stanley © CJM MUSIC

Readings for Mass: https://universalis.com/mass.htm

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 90:1-2, 10-15 r. 1

RESPONSE: (Cantor, then all)

The Lord is compassion and love.

The Lord is compassion and love

Verse 1:

My soul, give thanks to the Lord all my being, bless his holy name.

My soul, give thanks to the Lord and never forget all his blessings.

R/ The Lord is compassion and love.

The Lord is compassion and love

Verse 2:

It is he who forgives all your guilt, who heals every one of your ills,

who redeems your life from the grave, who crowns you with love and compassion.

R/ The Lord is compassion and love.

Verse 3:

The Lord is compassion and love, slow to anger and rich in mercy

He does not treat us according to our sins nor repay us according to our faults

R/ The Lord is compassion and love.

The Lord is compassion and love

Verse 4:

As far as the east is from the west so far does he remove our sins.

As a father has compassion on his sons, the Lord has pity on those who fear him.

R/ The Lord is compassion and love.

The Lord is compassion and love

Readings for Mass: https://universalis.com/mass.htm

Music by Jo Boyce © CJM MUSIC | Words © The Grail (UK)

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! (2)

Verse: (sung)

Glory and praise to you O Lord.

Mass of St Luke | Music by Mike Stanley © CJM MUSIC

Offertory Song

1 Lord, who throughout these forty days,

For us did fast and pray,

Teach us with you to mourn our sins,

And close by you to stay.

2 As you with Satan did contend,

And did the vict'ry win,

O give us strength in you to fight,

In you to conquer sin.

3 As you did hunger bear and thirst,

So teach us, gracious Lord,

To die to self, and always live

By your most holy word.

4 And through these days of penitence,

And through your Passion-tide,

Forevermore, in life and death,

O Lord, with us abide.

Words and Music: Tune: Belmont CM, Islington Psamody 1854

Holy Holy

VERSE 1:

Holy, Holy, Holy

Lord God of hosts.

Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.

VERSE 2:

Blessed is he

who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

Hosanna in the high - est.

Mass of Creation | Marty Haugen

Memorial Acclamation

We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection until you come again, until you come again.

Mass of Creation| Music by Marty Haugen

Lamb of God

Spoken

Prayer of Spiritual Communion

My Jesus,

I believe that You are present

in this Holy Sacrament of the altar.

I love You above all things

and I passionately desire to receive You into my soul.

Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,

come spiritually into my soul

so that I may unite myself wholly to You

now and forever.
Amen.

Based on a prayer of St Alphonsus Liguorit

Communion Song

REFRAIN:

Turn to me, O turn, and be saved,

says the Lord, for I am God

there is no o - ther, none beside me.

I call your name.

LINK: (to verses)

VERSE 1:

I am God who comforts you;

who are you to be afraid,

of flesh that fades,

is made like the grass of the field

soon to wither.

VERSE 2:

Listen to me, my people;

give ear to me, my nation:

a law will go forth from me,

and my justice for a light to the people.

VERSE 3:

Lift up your eyes to the heavens,

and look at the earth down below.

The heavens will vanish like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like a garment.

Words & Music: John Foley

Recessional Song

Dear Lord and Father of mankind,

forgive our foolish ways;

reclothe us in our rightful mind,

in purer lives thy service find,

in deeper reverence, praise.

In simple trust like theirs who heard,

beside the Syrian sea,

the gracious calling of the Lord,

let us, like them, without a word,

rise up and follow thee.

O sabbath rest by Galilee,

calm of hills above,

where Jesus knelt to share with thee

the silence of eternity,

interpreted by love

Drop thy still dews of quietness,

till all our strivings cease;

take from our souls the strain and stress,

and let our ordered lives confess

the beauty of thy peace.

Breathe through the heats of our desire

thy coolness and thy balm;

let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;

speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire,

O still, small voice of calm.

Words & Music: C.H.H. Parry