Our next monthly Holy Hour is from 7-8 PM on October 6 in the church.
Theme: A Devotion to Love
Worship Aid
Procession Song: “Sweet Hour of Prayer”
Verse 1. Sweet hour of prayer, Sweet hour of prayer that calls me from a world of care
And bids me at my Father's throne; Make all my wants and wishes known
In seasons of distress and grief; My soul has often found relief
And oft escaped the tempter's snare; By Thy return, sweet hour of prayer
Words: William Walford, Music: William B. Bradbury;
Public Domain.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
(All kneel when the Blessed Sacrament is placed into the monstrance)
Opening antiphon:
[B]e imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
(Ephesians 5:1-2)
First Meditation Song: “Ave Maria”
Ave Maria, Gratia plena
Maria, grata plena, Maria, gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus, Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus, Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus fructus ventris
Ventris tu, Jesus, Ave Maria
Ave Maria, Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Ora, ora pro nobis, Ora, ora pro nobis, peccatoribus;
Nunc et in hora mortis, In hora mortis nostrae
In hora mortis mortis nostrae, In hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria
Music: Franz Shubert, 1825, Lyrics: Traditional, Latin adaptation (Public Domain)
First Meditation:
How can Mary be an inspiration to me to say yes to God’s will?
Silent Adoration/Reflection
Responsorial Psalm
(Ps. 18)
Response: I love you, Lord, my strength.
Gospel
John 19:23-27
Homily
Second Meditation Song: "Holy Is His Name"
Verse 1:
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
And my spirit exalts in God my savior
For He has looked with mercy on my lowliness
And my name will be forever exalted
For the mighty God has done great things for me
And His mercy will reach from age to age
Refrain: And holy, holy, holy is His name
Verse 2:
He has mercy in every generation
He has revealed His power and His glory
He has cast down the mighty in their arrogance
And has lifted up the meek and the lonely
He has come to help His servant Israel
He remembered His promise to our fathers
Refrain: And holy, holy, holy is His name
Holy, holy, holy is His name
Music: John Michael Talbot, Lyrics: Based on Luke: 1:46-55
© 1980, 1995 Birdwing Music/BMG Songs
Second Meditation:
Where is God calling me to be holy in my life by being a person of mercy, humility and love?
Silent Adoration/Reflection
One Decade of the Rosary
Presider: Tonight we will pray one Decade, meditating on the Third Sorrowful Mystery, The Crowning of Jesus with Thorns.
Mary helps us remember the total shame that Jesus was put through and how undignified it was.
She reminds us that we ourselves mock others, and put them to shame, yet all of us deserve dignity,
since we are all made in the image and likeness of God.
She calls us to be persons of love.
Rosary Leader:
"And the soldiers stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.
Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand.
And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ "
The Apostles’ Creed: I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
He descended into hell;
on the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;
from there He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
Amen.
Our Father ...
Hail Mary ...
Glory be ...
Fatima Prayer (all): O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of Hell.
Lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of your mercy.
All: In the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Excerpts of the Prayer of St. Faustina Kowalska before the Blessed Sacrament
(All Kneel)
All: I adore you, Lord and Creator, hidden in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
You have spread so much beauty over the earth and it tells me about your beauty,
even though these beautiful things are but a faint reflection of you, incomprehensible Beauty.
My heart is completely immersed in prayer of adoration.
To converse with you, O Lord, is the delight of my heart.
O my Lord and Creator, you alone give your own self to me.
O Christ, let me glorify your goodness and mercy to the last moment of my life.
Amen.
Benediction and Reposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Adoration Hymn (all):
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
Veneremur cernui,
Et antiquum documentum
Novo cedat ritui;
Praestet fides supplementum,
Sensuum defectui.
Genetori Genitoque
Laus et jubilatio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedictio:
Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio.
Amen.
Presider: You have given them Bread from heaven.
All: Having within it all Sweetness.
Prayer before Benediction
(all):
Lord Jesus Christ, you gave us the Eucharist as the memorial of your suffering and death.
May our worship of this sacrament of your Body and Blood
help us to experience the salvation you won for us
and the peace of the kingdom
where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
Amen
Benediction
Divine Praises
(all):
Blessed be God.
Blessed be his Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.
Blessed be the name of Jesus.
Blessed be his most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be his most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary, most holy.
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in his angels, and in his saints.
Reposition chant:
Presider: May the heart of Jesus, in the most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection, at every moment,
in all the tabernacles of the world, even to the end of time.
All: Amen.
Reposition
Concluding Hymn
Holy God, we praise thy name;
Lord of all, we bow before thee:
All on earth thy scepter claim,
All in heaven above adore thee.
Infinite thy vast domain,
Everlasting is thy reign!
Infinite thy vast domain,
Everlasting is thy reign!