The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Processional Hymn - From Ashes to the Living Font
From ashes to the living font
Your Church must journey, Lord,
Baptized in grace, in grace renewed
By your most holy word.
Through fasting, prayer, and charity,
Your voice speaks deep within,
Returning us to ways of truth
And turning us from sin.
Unless, like grains of wheat, we fall
Upon the ground to die,
We cannot share the gift of life,
Raised up, like you, on high.
From ashes to the living font
Your Church must journey still,
Through cross and tomb to Easter joy,
In Spirit-fire fulfilled.
1st Reading – Jeremiah 31:31-34
The days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they broke my covenant, and I had to show myself their master, says the LORD.
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD.
I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
No longer will they have need to teach their friends and relatives how to know the LORD.
All, from least to greatest, shall know me, says the LORD, for I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no more.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 51
R. Create in me, create in me a clean heart, O God.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your merciful love;
According to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.
Wash me completely from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
R. Create in me, create in me a clean heart, O God.
Create a pure heart for me, O God, renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
R. Create in me, create in me a clean heart, O God.
Restore in me the joy of your salvation, sustain in me a willing spirit.
I will teach transgressors your ways, that sinners may not return to you.
R. Create in me, create in me a clean heart, O God.
2nd Reading – Hebrews 5:7-9
In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
Gospel – John 12:20-33
Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”
Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be.
The Father will honor whoever serves me.
“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say?
‘Father, save me from this hour’?
But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.
Father, glorify your name.”
Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”
The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.
Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”
He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.
Prayer for Our Lady of Angels Parish
Heavenly Father, we thank you for gathering us together and calling us to serve as your disciples.
You have charged us through your Son, Jesus, with the great mission of evangelizing and witnessing your love to the world.
Send your Holy Spirit to guide us as we discern your will for the spiritual renewal of our parish.
Give us strength, courage, and clear vision as we use our gifts to serve you.
We entrust our parish family to the care of Mary, our mother, and ask for her intercession and guidance, as we strive to build a parish that loves God, embraces all people, and shares the Gospel joyfully.
Amen.
Communion Hymn - Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled
Do not let your hearts be troubled
Have faith in God and faith in me
I will go forth to prepare a place for you
And I'll come back to take you with me
That where I am you may also be
In God's house, there are many places
for you alone to dwell in safety
You know the way to where I lead you
If you are lost I will show the way
Do not let your hearts be troubled
Have faith in God and faith in me
I will go forth to prepare a place for you
And I'll come back to take you with me
That where I am you may also be
I am the way the truth and the life
Only through me can you know what I know
If you knew me you would see the vision
If you see me you see your God
Do not let your hearts be troubled
Have faith in God and faith in me
I will go forth to prepare a place for you
And I'll come back to take you with me
That where I am you may also be
The words I speak are not only of my self
It is your God who lives within me
If you believe that your God and I are one
I will provide when you call my name.
Do not let your hearts be troubled
Have faith in God and faith in me
I will go forth to prepare a place for you
And I'll come back to take you with me
That where I am you may also be.
Spiritual Communion Prayer
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things, and I desire to receive you in my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and I unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.
Recessional Hymn - Forty Days and Forty Nights
Forty days and forty nights
You were fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.
Shall not we Your sorrow share
And from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Strong with You to suffer pain?
Then, if Satan on us press,
Flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness,
Grant, we may not faint nor fail!
So shall we have peace divine;
Holier gladness ours shall be.
'Round us, too, shall angels shine,
Such as served You faithfully.
Keep, O keep us, Savior dear,
Ever constant by Your side,
That with You we may appear
At the eternal Eastertide.
