Mass
0206 Martyrs Memorial
Entrance Antiphon
The saints are happy in heaven because they followed Christ. They rejoice with him for ever because they shed their blood for love of him.
Collect
O God, strength of all the Saints, who through the Cross were pleased to call the Martyrs Saint Paul Miki and companions to life, grant, we pray, that by their intercession. we may hold with courage even until death to the faith that we profess. 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.
First Reading (Romans 8:31-39)羅馬
A reading from the book of Romans
What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ [Jesus] who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Responsorial Psalm (Ps31:3-4, 6-8, 16-17)
【 R.】 我將我的靈魂託付在祢手裏。
Prayer over the Offerings
Lord, accept the gifts we bring to celebrate the feast of your martyrs. May this sacrifice free us from sin and make our service pleasing to you. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon Jn 15:13
No one has greater love, says the Lord, than the man who lays down his life for his friends.
Prayer after Communion
Lord, we eat the Bread from heaven and become one body in Christ. Never let us be separated from his love. Help us to follow the example of our Martyrs Peter Baptist, Paul, and companions by having the courage to overcome all things for Christ who loved us all, and who lives and reigns with you for ever and ever.
The saints are happy in heaven because they followed Christ. They rejoice with him for ever because they shed their blood for love of him.
Collect
O God, strength of all the Saints, who through the Cross were pleased to call the Martyrs Saint Paul Miki and companions to life, grant, we pray, that by their intercession. we may hold with courage even until death to the faith that we profess. 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.
First Reading (Romans 8:31-39)羅馬
A reading from the book of Romans
What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ [Jesus] who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Responsorial Psalm (Ps31:3-4, 6-8, 16-17)
【 R.】 我將我的靈魂託付在祢手裏。
Prayer over the Offerings
Lord, accept the gifts we bring to celebrate the feast of your martyrs. May this sacrifice free us from sin and make our service pleasing to you. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon Jn 15:13
No one has greater love, says the Lord, than the man who lays down his life for his friends.
Prayer after Communion
Lord, we eat the Bread from heaven and become one body in Christ. Never let us be separated from his love. Help us to follow the example of our Martyrs Peter Baptist, Paul, and companions by having the courage to overcome all things for Christ who loved us all, and who lives and reigns with you for ever and ever.