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PLANNING A NON-EUCHARISTIC LITURGY

Preparation

Date: 3 January 2016

Feast: Feast of the Epiphany

Place: School Church

Time: 12pm

Focus: The gifts of Magi

Group: Grade 6

Required Props (Cross, candles, symbol etc):

White cloth
Gold Cloth
Christ Candle (with Advent wreath)
Gifts of Magi Gold, frankincense and myrrh
Bible

How will symbols be displayed/used? (What specific action?):
The white and gold cloths will be displayed over the alter, with a lit Christ candle within an
Advent wreath placed at the centre of the alter. The Bible will be used for readings and the
Gifts of Magi will be brought up to the alter by students during the liturgy.

Gather (Introductory Rites)

Welcome:
(Teacher)
Good Morning Parents, Staff and Students, Today Grade 6 will be leading our mass, a
celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany.
During this entrance procession I ask that you please stay quiet and take the time to reflect
upon the recent celebrations and the importance of the Christmas season.

(Entrance procession)

Please stand for our Gathering Hymn.

Gathering Hymn:
(Students to lead the hymn in front of the alter)

We Three Kings of Orient Are
We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain
Following yonder star

O Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy Perfect Light

Born a King on Bethlehem's plain
Gold I bring to crown Him again
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign

O Star of wonder, star of night

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Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to Thy perfect light

Frankincense to offer have I
Incense owns a Deity nigh
Prayer and praising, all men raising
Worship Him, God most high

O Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to Thy perfect light

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes of life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb

O Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to Thy perfect light

Glorious now behold Him arise
King and God and Sacrifice
Alleluia, Alleluia
Earth to heav'n replies

O Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to Thy perfect light


Opening Prayer:
(Student 1)
Let us pray
Father,
you revealed your Son to the nations
by the guidance of a star.
Lead us to your glory in heaven
by the light of faith.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Received from: http://www.churchyear.net/epiphanyprayers.html

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Listen (Liturgy of the Word)

Reading/s: Isaiah Ch 60: 1-6
Received from: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/010316.cfm
(Student 2)
The first reading from the book of Isaiah

Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come,
the glory of the Lord shines upon you.
See, darkness covers the earth,
and thick clouds cover the peoples;
but upon you the LORD shines,
and over you appears his glory.
Nations shall walk by your light,
and kings by your shining radiance.
Raise your eyes and look about;
they all gather and come to you:
your sons come from afar,
and your daughters in the arms of their nurses.

Then you shall be radiant at what you see,
your heart shall throb and overflow,
for the riches of the sea shall be emptied out before you,
the wealth of nations shall be brought to you.
Caravans of camels shall fill you,
dromedaries from Midian and Ephah;
all from Sheba shall come
bearing gold and frankincense,
and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.

Share, Reflect, Respond

Prayer/Reflection/Action:
Action:
Students (3,4 & 5) dressed as the Three Wise Men, bring up gifts of the Magi and place them
in front of the alter.

Prayer:
(Student 6)
P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
All: Who made heaven and earth.
P: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit.
Let us pray.
(Student 7)
Accept, O holy Father, from me, thine unworthy servant, these gifts which I offer in humility to
the honor of thy holy name and to thy peerless majesty, as thou didst accept the sacrifice of
the just Abel and the same gifts from the hands of the Magi.

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All: Amen.
(Student 8)
O God, Who art invisible and without end, in the holy and awesome name of thy Son
graciously bestow blessing power these creatures, gold, incense, and myrrh.
(Student 9)
Protect those who will have them in your possession from illness, injury, and danger to body
and soul, so they can joyously and securely serve thee with zeal in thy Church. who in perfect
Trinity livest and reignest God, forever.
All: Amen.
(Student 10)
And may the blessing of almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, descend upon these
creatures gold, incense, and myrrh, and remain for all time.
All: Amen.
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=1335

Response:
Received from: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/010316.cfm
All: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
(Student 11)
O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the kings son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.

All: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
(Student 12)
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.

All: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
(Student 13)
The kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall offer gifts;
the kings of Arabia and Seba shall bring tribute.
All kings shall pay him homage,
all nations shall serve him.

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All: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
(Student 14)
For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out,
and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the poor he shall save.

All: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

Go & Tell (Concluding Rites)

Dismissal:
(Teacher)
As we leave here today we thank the lord for the memories and celebrations of the season
and for the coming of Jesus Christ.
Go in the light and peace of Christ.
All Thanks be to God.

Concluding Hymn:

Songs of Thankfulness and Praise
(Students to lead the hymn in front of the alter)

Songs of thankfulness and praise,
Jesus, Lord, to Thee we raise,
Manifested by the star
To the sages from afar;
Branch of royal Davids stem
In Thy birth at Bethlehem;
Anthems be to Thee addressed,
God in man made manifest.

Manifest at Jordans stream,
Prophet, Priest, and King supreme;
And at Cana, wedding guest,
In Thy Godhead manifest;
Manifest in power divine,
Changing water into wine;
Anthems be to Thee addressed,
God in man made manifest.

Manifest in making whole
Palsied limbs and fainting soul;
Manifest in valiant fight,
Quelling all the devils might;
Manifest in gracious will,
Ever bringing good from ill;
Anthems be to Thee addressed,
God in man made manifest.

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Sun and moon shall darkened be,
Stars shall fall, the heavens shall flee,
Christ will then like lightning shine,
All will see His glorious sign:
All will then the trumpet hear;
All will see the Judge appear;
Thou by all wilt be confessed,
God in man made manifest.

Grant us grace to see Thee, Lord,
Mirrored in Thy holy Word;
May we imitate Thee now,
And be pure, as pure art Thou;
That we like to Thee may be
At Thy great Epiphany;
And may praise Thee, ever blest,
God in man made manifest.

Received from:
http://www.songandpraise.org/songs-of-thankfulness-and-praise-hymn-lyrics.htm