October 5, 2025
Solemnity of St. Francis
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Prelude: Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (RS 912)
Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love.
Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,
And where there’s doubt, true faith in you.
Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness only light,
And where there’s sadness ever joy.
O Master, grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled, as to console,
To be understood, as to understand,
To be loved, as to love, with all my soul.
Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving of ourselves that we receive,
And in dying that we’re born to eternal life.
Dedicated to Mrs. Frances Tracy. Text: Based on the prayer traditionally ascr. to St. Francis of Assisi, 1182–1226.
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Entrance Hymn: All Creatures Of Our God And King (RS 706)
All creatures of our God and King,
Lift up your voice and with us sing:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
O burning sun with golden beam
And silver moon with softer gleam:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
O rushing wind and breezes soft,
O clouds that ride the winds aloft:
Alleluia! Alleluia!
O rising morn, in praise rejoice,
O lights of evening, find a voice. Alleluia…
O flowing waters, pure and clear,
Make music for your Lord to hear.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
O fire so masterful and bright,
Providing us with warmth and light, Alleluia…
Dear mother earth, who day by day
Unfolds rich blessings on our way,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
The fruits and flow’rs that verdant grow,
Let them God’s glory also show. Alleluia…
O ev’ry one of tender heart,
Forgiving others, take your part,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
All you who pain and sorrow bear,
Praise God and cast on God your care. Alleluia…
And you, most kind and gentle death,
Waiting to hush our final breath,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
You lead to heav’n the child of God,
Where Christ our Lord the way has trod. Alleluia…
Let all things their Creator bless,
And worship God in humbleness,
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Oh praise the Father, praise the Son,
And praise the Spirit, Three in One! Alleluia…
Text: Laudato si, mi Signor; Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; tr. by William H. Draper, 1855-1933, alt.
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Text: Laudato si, mi Signor; Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; tr. by William H. Draper, 1855-1933, alt.
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Scripture Readings (external link): 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Responsorial: Psalm 65
R: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
Preparation Hymn: O God Beyond All Praising (RS 725)
O God, beyond all praising,
We worship You today
And sing the love amazing
That songs cannot repay;
For we can only wonder
At every gift You send,
At blessings without number
And mercies without end;
We lift our hearts before You
And wait upon Your word
We honor and adore You,
Our great and mighty Lord.
The flow’r of earthly splendor
In time must surely die,
Its fragile bloom surrender
To You, the Lord most high;
But hidden from all nature
The eternal seed is sown
Though small in mortal stature
To heaven’s garden grown;
For Christ, the man from heaven
From death has set us free,
And we through Him are given
The final victory.
Then, hear, O gracious Saviour,
Accept the love we bring,
That we who know Your favor
May serve You as our King;
And whether our tomorrows
Be filled with good or ill,
We’ll triumph through our sorrows
And rise to bless You still;
To marvel at Your beauty
And glory in Your ways,
And make a joyful duty
Our sacrifice of praise.
Text: Michael Perry, 1942–1996, © 1982, The Jubilate Group (admin. by Hope Publishing Company)
Tune: THAXTED, 13 13 13 13 13 13; Gustav Holst, 1874–1934
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Communion Hymn: Litany of Peace
God of love, your gift of peace is planted
deep within our hearts:
Make me an instrument of your peace.
Make me an instrument of your peace.
God of peace, wherever there is hatred,
may we bring your love:
May we bring your hope and gladness
where despair and sadness are:
May we seek to understand another
with a patient heart:
Faithful God, wherever there is darkness,
may we bring your light:
God of mercy, help us to forgive
when there is injury done:
Gracious God, whenever people hunger,
may we fill their need:
Set us free from all our fear and anger;
set us free to love:
Text: Based on the prayer traditionally ascr. to St. Francis of Assisi, 1182–1226.
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Communion Hymn: One Bread, One Body (RS 1027)
One bread, one body, one Lord of all,
one cup of blessing which we bless.
And we, though many, throughout the earth,
we are one body in this one Lord.
Gentile or Jew, servant or free,
woman or man no more.
Many the gifts, many the works,
one in the Lord of all.
Grain for the fields, scattered and grown,
gathered to one for all.
Text: 1 Corinthians 10:16; 17, 12:4, Galatians 3:28; the Didache 9;
John Foley, SJ, b.1939, © 1978, John B. Foley, SJ, and New Dawn Music. Published by OCP Publications.
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Concluding Hymn: Sing a New Song to the Lord (RS 710)
Sing a new song to the Lord,
He to whom wonders belong!
Rejoice in his triumph and tell of his power,
O sing to the Lord a new song!
Now to the ends of the earth
See his salvation is shown;
And still he remembers his mercy and truth,
Unchanging in love to his own.
Sing a new song and rejoice,
Publish his praises abroad!
Let voices in chorus, with trumpet and horn,
Resound for the joy of the Lord!
Join with the hills and the sea
Thunders of praise to prolong!
In judgment and justice he comes to the earth,
O sing to the Lord a new song!
Text: Psalm 98; Timothy Dudley-Smith, b.1926, © 1973, Hope Publishing Co.
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