Mass for Passion Sunday

 Sung Mass for Passion Sunday

6:00 p.m., Sunday March 17

St. Martin's Chapel

814 W. Maple Street, Fayetteville, AR

Directions
Service Sheet

THE FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT, COMMONLY CALLED PASSION SUNDAY

INTROIT  Ps. 42: 1-3.

GIVE sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people: O deliver my soul from the deceitful and wicked man: for thou art the God of my strength. Ps. ibid. O sendout thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me : and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling. Give sentence with me.

COLLECTS

WE beseech thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy people: that by thy great

goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul. Through.

WE beseech thee, O Lord, mercifully to hear the prayers of thy people: that being delivered from all adversities and all false doctrines, thy Church may serve thee in freedom and quietness.

O GOD, the pastor and governour of them that put their trust in thee, look down in

mercy on thy servant, Francis, whom thou hast chosen to be pastor and ruler of thy Church: grant unto him, we beseech thee, to be in word and conversation a wholesome example to the people committed to his charge; that he with them may attain at last to the crown of everlasting life. Through.

EPISTLE Hebrews 9:11-15

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;  Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.  For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?  And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

Materials for Sunday Evening's Mass

The draft Mass booklet, service sheet, and music leaflet for Sunday’s Mass are available online at the  

St. Rafe’s Resources Page.

This week will be a sung Mass in traditional English with Gregorian chant in Latin.

During the course of the Mass, there are portions when the people and the celebrant engage in a dialogue of versicles and responses, portions when the cantor sings alone, portions when we all sing together, portions when we pray in silence, and portions when our various postures of standing and kneeling call our bodies to worship.  Far more important than wondering whether you’re on the right page or what to do next is to simply let the service wash over you—to be caught up in the moment so that mind and soul are free to worship, to respond to God’s love made known to us in the incarnation of Jesus Christ.  The forms are traditional, but the secret is to let yourself go.

Join us!

Mass for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

7:00 p.m., Sunday November 11

St. Martin's Chapel

814 W. Maple Street

Fayetteville, AR 

saintrafes.com.