Weekday Mass readings

2. We pray to Saint
Angela to commend
us to You O Lord, that,
following the lessons
of her charity and
prudence, we may
hold fast to Your
teaching.

3. Entrance antiphon
Here is a wise virgin, from
among the number of the
prudent, who went fort with
lighted lamp to meet Christ

5. …Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy
…Christ, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy
…Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy
Penitential act

7. May the Virgin Saint Angela never fail to
commend us to your compassion, O
Lord, we pray, that, following the lessons
of her charity and prudence, we may
hold fast to your teaching and express it
in what we do.
The Collect

8. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your
Son, who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever
and ever.
The Collect

9. The First Reading

10. A reading from the second
Bok of Samuel 7:4-17
The word of the Lord came to
Nathan:
‘Go and tell my servant David,

11. “Thus the Lord speaks: Are
you the man to build me a
house to dwell in? I have
never stayed in a house from
the day I brought the Israelites
out of Egypt until today, but

12. have always led a wanderer’s
life in a tent. In all my
journeying with the whole
people of Israel, did I say to
any one of the judges of
Israel, whom I had appointed

13. as shepherds of Israel my
people: Why have you not
built me a house of cedar?”
This is what you must say to
my servant David, “the Lord of
Hosts says this: I took you

14. from the pasture, from
following the sheep, to be
leader of my people Israel; I
have been with you on all your
expeditions; I have cut off all
your enemies before you. I will

15. give you fame as great as the
fame of the greatest on earth. I
will provide a place for my
people Israel; I will plant them
there and they shall dwell in
that place and never be

16. disturbed again; nor shall the
wicked continue to oppress
them as they did, in the days
when I appointed judges over
my people Israel; I will give
them rest from all their

17. enemies. The Lord will make
you great; the Lord will make
you a House. And when your
days are ended and you are
laid to rest with your
ancestors, I will preserve the

18. offspring of your body after
you and make his sovereignty
secure. (It is he who shall
build a house for my name,
and I will make his royal
throne secure for ever.) I will

19. be a father to him and he a
son to me; if he does evil, I
will punish him with the rod
such as men use, with strokes
such as mankind gives. Yet I
will not withdraw my favour

20. from him, as I withdrew it from
your predecessor. Your House
and your sovereignty will
always stand secure before
me and your throne be
established for ever.”’ Nathan

21. related all these words to
David and this whole
revelation.

22. The Word
of the Lord
Thanks be to God.

23. I will keep my love
for him always.
The Psalm

24. I have made a covenant with my
chosen one, I have sworn to David
my servant: I will establish your
dynasty for ever and set up your
throne through all ages.
The Psalm

25. I will keep my love
for him always.
The Psalm

26. He will say to me: You are my
father, my God, the rock who saves
me.
And I will make him my first-born,
the highest of the kings of the
earth.
The Psalm

27. I will keep my love
for him always.
The Psalm

28. I will keep my love for him always;
with him my covenant shall last.
I will establish his dynasty for ever,
make his throne endure as the
heavens.
The Psalm

29. I will keep my love
for him always.
The Psalm

30. Alleluia, alleluia!
Speak, Lord, your servant
is listening: you have the
message of eternal life.
Alleluia!
Gospel Acclamation

31. The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
A Reading from the holy Gospel
according to Mark 4:1-20
Glory to you, O Lord.
The Gospel

32. Jesus began to teach by the
lakeside, but such a huge
crowd gathered round him that
he got into a boat on the lake
and sat there. The people were
all along the shore, at the

33. water’s edge. He taught them
many things in parables, and
in the course of his teaching
he said to them, ‘Listen!,
Imagine a sower going out to
sow. Now it happened that, as

34. he sowed, some of the seed
fell on the edge of the path,
and the birds came and ate it
up. Some seed fell on rocky
ground where it found little
soil and sprang up

35. straightaway, because there
was no depth of earth; and
when the sun came up it was
scorched and, not having any
roots, it withered away. Some
seed fell into thorns, and the

36. thorns grew up and choked it,
and it produced no crop. And
some seeds fell into rich soil
and, growing tall and strong,
produced crop; and yielded
thirty, sixty, even a

37. hundredfold.’ And he said,
‘Listen, anyone who has ears
to hear!’
When he was alone, the
Twelve, together with the
others who formed his

38. company, asked what the
parables meant. He told them,
‘The secret of the kingdom of
God is given to you, but to
those who are outside
everything comes in parables,

39. so that they may see and see
again, but not perceive; may
hear and hear again, but not
understand; otherwise they
might be converted and be
forgiven.’ He said to them, ‘Do

40. you not understand this
parable? Then how will you
understand any of the
parables? What the sower is
sowing is the word. Those on
the edge of the path where the

41. word is sown are people who
have no sooner heard it than
Satan comes and carries away
the word that was sown in
them. Similarly, those who
receive the seed on patches of

42. rock are people who, when
first they hear the word,
welcome it at once with joy.
But they have no root in them,
they do not last; should some
trial come, or some

43. persecution on account of the
word, they fall away at once.
Then there are others who
receive the seed in thorns.
These have heard the word,
but the worries of this world,

44. the lure of riches and all the
other passions come in to
choke the word, and so it
produces nothing. And there
are those who have received
the seed in rich soil: they hear

45. the word and accept it and
yield a harvest, thirty and sixty
and a hundredfold.’

46. The Gospel of the Lord
Praise to you, Lord
Jesus Christ.

48. As we proclaim your wonders, O
Lord,in the Virgin blessed Saint
Angela, we humbly implore your
majesty that, as her merits are
pleasing to you, so, too, our dutiful
service may find favour in your sight.
Through Christ our Lord.
Prayer over the

50. The Peace of the Lord be
with you always.
And with your
spirit.
Let us offer each other
the sign of peace
We Share God’s Peace

52. God our Father, slow to anger,
abounding in mercy,
you find your way to us when we
cannot find our way to you,
you are always faithful when we are
unfaithful.

53. Jesus Christ, you entered
the house of sinners,
you sat at the table of the
poor,
you accepted the Cross,
your throne of mercy.

54. Holy Spirit, you pour your
healing gifts over our wounds,
you anoint us to bring good
news to the poor,
you send us out as
missionaries of mercy.

55. God of Mercies, have mercy on
us, so that where sin abounds
your grace may abound all the
more,
and we shall become merciful
like you. Amen.