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26 June

Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, priest

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

Jer 3:15

I will give you shepherds after my own heart, and they shall feed you on knowledge and sound teaching.

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COLLECT

O God, who raised up your priest Saint Josemaría in the Church to proclaim the universal call to holiness and the apostolate, grant that by his intercession and example we may, through our daily work, be formed in the likeness of Jesus your Son and serve the work of redemption with burning love.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

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FIRST READING

The Lord took the man and put him in the garden to cultivate and take care of it.

A reading from the book of Genesis (2:4b-9, 15)

At the time when the Lord God made earth and heaven there was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil. However, a flood was rising from the earth and watering all the surface of the soil. The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. Then he breathed into his nostrils a breath of life, and thus man became a living being.

The Lord God planted a garden in Eden which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. The Lord God caused to spring up from the soil every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the middle of the garden. The Lord God took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and take care of it.

The word of the Lord.

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RESPONSORIAL PSALM

R. Praise the Lord, all you peoples! (Ps 2:7 - 12)

I will announce the decree of the Lord:
He said to me: “You are my Son.
It is I who have begotten you this day.”
R.

“Ask and I shall bequeath you the nations,
put the ends of the earth in your possession.
With a rod of iron you will break them,
shatter them like a potter’s jar.”
R.

Now, O kings, understand,
take warning, rulers of the earth;
serve the Lord with awe and trembling,
pay him your homage.
R.

Lest he be angry, and you perish,
for suddenly his anger will blaze.
Blessed are they who put their trust in God.
R.

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SECOND READING

The Spirit himself and our spirit bear witness that we are children of God.

A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans (8:14-17)

Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of God. The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out: “Abba, Father!” The Spirit himself and our spirit bear witness that we are children of God. And if we are children we are heirs as well: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, sharing his sufferings so as to share his glory.

The word of the Lord.

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GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

Mk 1:17

Alleluia. Come follow me, says the Lord, and I will make you fishers of men. Alleluia.

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GOSPEL

I will make you fishers of men.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke (5:1-11)

While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret. And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat.

And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” And Simon answered, “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets.” And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and as their nets were breaking, they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.” For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of fish which they had taken; and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; henceforth you will be catching men.”

And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed him.

The Gospel of the Lord.

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PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS

Holy Father, accept these gifts we offer in memory of Saint Josemaría, so that, through the sacrifice offered by Christ on the altar of the Cross and made present here in this sacrament, you may graciously sanctify all that we do. Through Christ our Lord.

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COMMUNION ANTIPHON

Mt 20:28

The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.

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PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

O Lord our God, may the mysteries we have received in the celebration of Saint Josemaría, strengthen in us the spirit of adoption as your children, so that, in faithful adherence to your will, we may advance joyfully along the path of holiness. Through Christ Our Lord.