Bulletin and Mass for Palm Sunday

by | Mar 27, 2021 | Bulletin, Lent-Easter

Bulletin and Mass for Palm Sunday   28th March 2021

Please book tickets for this weekend’s masses, below.
Please book a ticket for everyone in your party (including children but not babies).

 

 

Palm Sunday Mass at 6.00 P.M. Saturday evening  and at 10.30 Sunday Morning.

The Palm Sunday Mass will be a bit shorter and simpler.  There will be no procession with palms and we will use the short form of the  Passion reading.

The Parish Penance service will take place on the Monday at 7.00p.m. and there will be no individual confessions because of the pandemic restrictions

During his homily, or sermon during mass, the Pope said: “Return to your father who is waiting for you. The God of tenderness will heal us; he will heal us of the many, many wounds of life and the many ugly things we have done. Each of us has our own!”

The homily reflected the emphasis that Pope Francis has put on forgiveness and mercy during his seven-year pontificate. God welcomed every repentant sinner with open arms, he said. “It’s like going home.”

 

Stations of the Cross:  we usually share a Stations of the Cross with Kinning Park Parish Church and Ibrox Parish Church on the Wednesday of Holy Week.    This is not practical this year but there is a Video Stations of the Cross on the St Leo the Great Facebook which you might like to share.

Seven Last Words: there is also a video version of the Seven Last Words on the St Leo the Great Facebook which you might like to share.

The Mass of The Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday will be simplified – no washing of the Feet, and no Altar of Repose in the hall..

The Good Friday Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion at 3.00 will also be shortened –  we may not ‘kiss’ the cross but we can venerate it observing the rules about distancing.

The Easter Vigil at 8.30 on the Saturday Evening will also be much shortened but it is the church’s great Mass and we will do our best to make it an occasion of remembering, joy,  and renewal of faith.

No Easter Egg hunt this year!  But there are plans for ‘something else’ and artistic creativity is at work.

Radioalba.org will have a special Stations of the Cross and a ‘Seven Last Words’ and I hope that we will put these two services and perhaps some special Morning Prayers for Holy Week onto the St Leo the Great Facebook.

 

Palm Sunday Mass:   The congregation is invited not to sing.

Hosannah to the Son of David.  Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

 

 

Blessing of Palms as people hold them up

Collect:

Philippians 2:6-1

Christ humbled himself but God raised him high

His state was divine, yet Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God
but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave and became as men are;
and being as all men are, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross.
But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all other names
so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld,
should bend the knee at the name of Jesus
and that every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Psalm 21: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? 

All who see me deride me.  They curl their lips, they toss their heads.
“He trusted in the Lord, let him save him, let him release him if this is his friend.”
 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Many dogs have surrounded me; a band of the wicked beset me.
They tear holes in my hands and my feet;
and I can count ev’ry one of my bones.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

They divided my clothing among them. They cast lots for my robe.
O Lord do not leave me alone; you are my strength, make haste to help me.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

I will tell of your name to my brethern and praise you when they are assembled.
you who fear the Lord, give him praise; all sons of Jacob, give him glory.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

GV Christ was humbler 017

A reading from the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark

First thing in the morning, the chief priests together with the elders and scribes, in short the whole Sanhedrin, had their plan ready. They had Jesus bound and took him away and handed him over to Pilate.
  Pilate questioned him:
  O. Are you the king of the Jews?
  N. He answered,
  ✠ It is you who say it.
  N. And the chief priests brought many accusations against him. Pilate questioned him again:
  O. Have you no reply at all? See how many accusations they are bringing against you!
  N. But, to Pilate’s amazement, Jesus made no further reply.
  At festival time Pilate used to release a prisoner for them, anyone they asked for. Now a man called Barabbas was then in prison with the rioters who had committed murder during the uprising. When the crowd went up and began to ask Pilate the customary favour, Pilate answered them
  O. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?
  N. For he realised it was out of jealousy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over. The chief priests, however, had incited the crowd to demand that he should release Barabbas for them instead. Then Pilate spoke again:
  O. But in that case, what am I to do with the man you call king of the Jews?
  N. They shouted back,
  C. Crucify him!
  N. Pilate asked them,
  O. Why? What harm has he done?
  N. But they shouted all the louder,
  C. Crucify him!
  N. So Pilate, anxious to placate the crowd, released Barabbas for them and, having ordered Jesus to be scourged, handed him over to be crucified.
  The soldiers led him away to the inner part of the palace, that is, the Praetorium, and called the whole cohort together. They dressed him up in purple, twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on him. And they began saluting him,
  C. Hail, king of the Jews!
  N. They struck his head with a reed and spat on him; and they went down on their knees to do him homage. And when they had finished making fun of him, they took off the purple and dressed him in his own clothes.
  They led him out to crucify him: they enlisted a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, father of Alexander and Rufus, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross. They brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha, which means the place of the skull.
  They offered him wine mixed with myrrh, but he refused it. Then they crucified him, and shared out his clothing, casting lots to decide what each should get. It was the third hour when they crucified him. The inscription giving the charge against him read: ‘The King of the Jews.’ And they crucified two robbers with him, one on his right and one on his left.
  The passers-by jeered at him; they shook their heads and said,
  C. Aha! So you would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days! Then save yourself: come down from the cross!
  N. The chief priests and the scribes mocked him among themselves in the same way. They said,
  C. He saved others; he cannot save himself. Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down from the cross now, for us to see it and believe.
  N. Even those who were crucified with him taunted him.
  When the sixth hour came there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
  ✠ Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?
  N. which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you deserted me?’ When some of those who stood by heard this, they said
  C. Listen, he is calling on Elijah.
  N. Someone ran and soaked a sponge in vinegar and, putting it on a reed, gave it him to drink, saying:
  O. Wait and see if Elijah will come to take him down.
  N. But Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.
  All kneel and pause for a moment.
  And the veil of the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The centurion, who was standing in front of him, had seen how he had died, and he said,
  In truth this man was a son of God.
 short homily

 

intercessions

As we recall the hope of the disciples as they accompanied Jesus into Jerusalem — only to have their dreams dashed when he was arrested a few days later – we pray for all who have burdens 0f disappointment and failure to carry.  Lord hear us.

Let’s pray for all who are ill or are suffering in any way – whether from the coronavirus, or any other sickness or anxiety. Tony and  Margaret Dougan, Patsy Nichol, Sr Bridie Dowd, Sr Anne, Ellen Hamilton, Jimmy Kennedy,  Kathleen Mallon, Molly McGavigan, Teresa Kidd, Margaret McLean, Andrine Mansi, Mary Clunie, Sean Fitzgerald, Ishbel MacMillan, Jack Rae, Anne Judge, Catherine Mulrine, Yvonne Watt, Rae McVey, John Gibson, Eleanor Reid, Heather Francke,  for  all being treated in the local Hospice, and all who serve the country in the emergency services.    Lord hear us.

Let’s pray for peace, particularly in the Holy Land and the Middle East;
for refugees and asylum seekers,
and for a greater spirit of hospitality and compassion in our own country.
Lord hear us.

For those who have died recently including Elizabeth Briggs, Sr Matthew and Jack Clunie,
for those whose anniversaries fall about now including Sr Pat Graham, Michael Kennedy and Irene Brannan,
and for all who are mourning.
Lord, hear us

 

Mass continues as usual

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