Planning for Mass

Prior to the celebration:

Display the class prayer cloth students created during the unit, as well as their Fruits of the Holy Spirit Flip Book
creations.

Gather – Introductory Rites

Welcome:

Student 1: Good morning Father, staff, parents and students and welcome to our class Mass. In
Religious Education this term, we have been exploring the freedom we have, the person of Jesus
Christ as a model of truly human behaviour and the strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Student 2: Please stand for the entrance hymn, ‘Welcome to All’ by Andrew Chinn.

Entrance Hymn: Welcome to All by Andrew Chinn

The Greeting

Penitential Rite

Gloria (Feast Days)

Opening Prayer

Focus – Liturgy of the Word

Reading/s:

Student 3: Romans 8:2-6

Student 4: Acts 2:1-4

Responsorial Psalm: Tell the Good News that God has saved us. Psalm 96:1-3

Gospel Acclamation (sung)

Gospel

Homily

Prayers of the Faithful:

Student 4: We pray for all of our Church leaders throughout the world, including Pope Francis, our
Bishop Michael, and our Father. May they continue to provide loving support and guide us through
our faith journey. Lord hear us.

All: Lord hear our prayer.

Student 5: We pray for our world. For a world that finds peace, a world that continues to love and
support each other through times of hardship. May everyone find strength in the fruits of the Holy
Spirit to live as Jesus did. Lord hear us.
All: Lord hear our prayer.

Student 6: We pray for those less fortunate than us. For all the people who go hungry in the world,
for all those feeling despair and all of those who are poor and struggling, may they find strength in
God’s love. May they receive our prayers and thoughts. Lord hear us.

All: Lord hear our prayer.

Student 7: We pray for our community. That all continue the work of Jesus and live the best lives
they can. We pray for people in our community who are suffering. May they find strength in God’s
love and our support. Lord hear us.

All: Lord hear our prayer.

Student 8: We pray for our school. For our principal, all staff and our students. We pray for the
health and well-being of our families. May they continue to live out and represent our good values.
Lord hear us.

All: Lord hear our prayer.

Reflect – Liturgy of the Eucharist

Offertory: Students 9 and 10 bring the bread and wine to the Father at the altar.

Offertory Hymn: Come to the Table by John Burland

Preparation of the Gifts

Prayer over the gifts

Eucharistic Prayer ( I, II or III for children)

Sanctus [Holy, Holy] (sung)

Memorial Acclamation (sung)

Amen (Sung)

Lord’s Prayer

Sign of Peace

Lamb of God

Communion

Communion Hymn: Take This and Eat by John Burland

Prayer after Communion

Respond – Concluding Rite

Blessing and Dismissal

Recessional Hymn: Never Walk Alone by Rend Collective

 Welcome to All

By Andrew Chinn

Welcome to all, welcomed as Christ! Listen and attend

with the ear of your heart. Many paths but one journey,
we work, love and pray
Open hands, open hearts, This is our way!
To pray we are called, to be one with our God. May our
hands join in prayer, together as one in peace, in stillness,
in the singing of hearts guided in prayer, one body we are.
To love we are called, to love just like Christ. May our
hands reach out all through our lives. Be the hands of
Jesus, be the face of God. May our hearts beat as one,
one in God’s love.
To work we are called, in the Spirit of God.
May our hands work together, be hope for the world with
Christ as our guide. We walk in God’s way to work in God’s
love, all our lives all our days.

Chinn, A. (2017). Welcome to All. Retrieved from http://www.butterflymusic.com.au/documents/Welcome%20To%20All-%20LYRICS.pdf

 Romans 8: 2-6

Life in the Spirit

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set
you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For God
has done what the law, weakened by the flesh,
could not do: by sending his own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he
condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the just
requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who
walk not according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set
their minds on the things of the flesh, but those
who live according to the Spirit set their minds on
the things of the Spirit, 6 To set the mind on the
flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is
life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is set
on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to
God’s law—indeed it cannot, 8 and those who are in
the flesh cannot please God.
Bible Gateway. (n.d.). Life in the spirit. Retrieved form https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+8&version=NRSV

Acts 2: 1-4

The Coming of the Holy Spirit

2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were
all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from
heaven there came a sound like the rush of a
violent wind, and it filled the entire house where
they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire,
appeared among them, and a tongue rested on
each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as
the Spirit gave them ability.
Bible Gateway. (n.d.). The coming of the holy spirit. Retrieved from https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+2&version=NRSV

Come to the Table

By John Burland
Refrain

We come to the table of the Lord

As one body formed in your love

We come to the table of the Lord

As one body formed in your love

Verse 1

Bread broken and shared to nourish us

Bread broken and shared to nourish us

At the table of the Lord

At the table of the Lord

Refrain

Verse 2

Cup poured out so we will never thirst

Cup poured out so we will never thirst

At the table of the Lord

At the table of the Lord

Refrain

Bridge

Come, come share with me

Come, come to my feast

Refrain x2
Burland, J. (2004). Come to the table. Retrieved from https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=222

Take This and Eat

By John Burland

Chorus

Take this and eat; this is my Body.

Take this and drink; this is my Blood.

This is my life, given for you.

Do this in memory of me.

Verse 1

Jesus and the twelve gathered for the feast.

He looked at them with love and said,

“Eat with me. This is the Passover; when we were set free.

My sacrifice will be God’s covenant anew.”

Chorus

Verse 2

“Gather in my name and remember me.

Share this meal together, and united we will be.

Nourished by my Body, nourished by my Blood.

I am with you always. I come that you may live!”

Chorus

God invites us to a Holy Meal.

The sacrifice of his life, that we might be healed.

His presence within us strengthens us to love.

We are sent into the world to serve in his name.

Chorus
Burland, J. (2013). Take this and eat. Retrieved from https://www.pflaum.com/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/TIJ-Lyrics.pdf