The Mass (6/12)

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Celebrant: Let us conduct in awe, let us conduct in reverence, let us comport well, and let us keep ourselves in vigilance.

Deacon: In your presence, O God.

Celebrant: The sacrifice offered is Christ, the Lamb of God!

Deacon: Mercy, and peace, and a sacrifice of blessing.

Celebrant: The grace, the love, and the divine sanctifying power of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Deacon: Amen. With your spirit too.

Celebrant: With the fear of God lift up your minds!

Deacon: We have them up unto you, Lord almighty.

Celebrant: And give thanks to the Lord with your whole heart.

Deacon: It is just and proper.

Celebrant: With the seraphim and with the cherubim singing the same holy song and cry out without fear and proclaim and say:

Celebrant and Assembly: Holy, holy, holy, Lord of hosts; heaven and earth are full of your glory. Blessing in the highest. Blessed are you who came and are to come in the name of God. Hosanna in the highest.

The Choir sings the Hymn, while the priest prays in secret:
Celebrant: Holy, holy, holy are you truly and all-holy. Who can ever get the glory of achieving to express words the outpouring of your infinitely loving solicitude unto us? You cared for at once and in marvelous ways the one who fell first to sin: through prophets, by giving the Law, through the priesthood and by the prefigurative offering of bulls. And at the end of these days you tore up the sentence of condemnation for all our debts by giving us your begotten Son, debtor and debt, immolation and anointed, lamb and heavenly bread, high priest and sacrifice; because it is he who distributes and he himself is distributed always in our midst without being consumed. For he became truly and without illusion man and took flesh in union without confusion from the Holy Virgin Mary the Mother of God he journeyed through all the needs of our human life without sin, and arrived willingly to the instrument of our redemption, to the world-saving cross.

Celebrant and Concelebrant: Taking the bread in his holy, divine hands, he blessed, gave thanks, broke, and gave it to the venerable, seating disciples, saying:

Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for you and for many, in expiation and in remission of sins.

Celebrant: In the life manner, taking the cup, he blessed it, gave thanks, drank, and gave it to the holy disciples, saying:

Drink you all from this. This is my blood for the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many, in expiation and in remission of sins.