Thirty-third
Sunday in Ordinary Time
November 16, 2025 Cycle C
Green priestly vestments
symbolize hope and
the vitality of the life of faith.
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Introductory Acts of Worship
The Entrance
Prayers:
On Sunday, usually a hymn praising
God is sung in place
of reciting a Psalm from the Bible which invites us to enter
more deeply into
the mystery of God's love for us. The recited weekday
Psalm expresses a
youthful heart and spirit, delighted that we may come before
the living God.
Entrance Song /
Entrance Psalm
(Antiphon)
Jeremiah
29:11,12,14
The
Lord said: I think
thoughts of peace and not of affliction. You will call
upon me, and I
will answer you, and I will lead back your captives from every
place.
The Priest Approaches and
Kisses the
Altar:
The
altar is a symbol of Christ. In it are cut five
crosses to recall the
five wounds of Christ. The altar also represents the
Church and has
embedded in it the relics of her saints. The priest
comes to the altar to
celebrate the Sacrifice in the Church's name. Because
of the glory
surrounding the altar upon which the divine Sacrifice will
be made, the kiss of
the priest unites the Church to Christ, its Redeemer.
Priest:
In the
name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
All:
Amen.
Priest: Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
All: And with your spirit.
The Penitential Prayers:
We
recognize our guilt for past sins, express our sorrow for
them, and ask that
Mary, the angels, the saints, and our brothers and sisters
in Christ pray for
the Lord God's mercy. (The priest may select from
several forms).
Priest:
Brothers
and
sisters, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves
to celebrate
the sacred mysteries.
Priest: Have mercy on us, O Lord.
All: For we have sinned against you.
Priest: Show us, O Lord, your mercy.
All: And grant us your salvation.
The
Absolution:
Priest:
May
almighty
God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to
everlasting
life.
All:
Amen.
The Gloria: The
Glory of God prayers have existed from the second
century. They repeat
the angels praise of God which heralded the birth of Christ
on earth. Our
praise is lifted again through the years as we rejoice at
His coming as Lord,
God, the most high Jesus Christ, who at Christmas took on
our human nature
while at the same time being the son of Man. This ancient
hymn expresses our
recognition of God's glory and love. It calls upon
Christ as our holy and
divine mediator, and the Holy Spirit who forever binds us
together in God's
love.
Priest
and
All: Glory
to
God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth. Lord
God,
heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give
you thanks, we
praise you for your glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of
the Father,
Lord God, Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world: have
mercy on us;
you are seated at the right hand of the Father: receive our
prayer. For
you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone
are the Most
High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God
the Father.
Amen.
The Collect:
The
priest lifts
the united prayers and petitions of the congregation to God
the Father through
the merits of Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.
Priest:
Let
us
pray.
Priest: Grant us, we pray, O Lord our God,
the constant
gladness of being devoted to you, for it is full and lasting
happiness to serve
with constancy the author of all that is good. 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.
Liturgy of the Word
Christ
is made
known to us through the Old Testament which prepares us
to recognize Him. In those days, God inspired men who
spoke His message.
Now, the New Testament Gospel reading announces His presence
to us directly
through His Son. Both readings bring God's message to
us. Our
responsibility is to respond.
The First Reading: From the Old Testament.
Malachi
3:19-20a
Lo, the
day is coming,
blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will
be stubble, and
the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them
neither root nor
branch, says the Lord of hosts. But for you who fear my
name, there will
arise the sun of justice with its healing rays.
Priest/Reader:
The
Word of the Lord.
All: Thanks
be to God.
The Responsorial
Psalm: This
Psalm praising God, is a prayer to God, or recommends the
practice of
virtue. It is sung as an interlude between the
scriptural readings.
It provides yet another instructional setting and invites
the assembly to
imitate the cantor who sings a repeated response to the
verses of an ancient psalm,
many of which are attributed to King David. The verses
are sung first by
a cantor (song leader) accompanied by instruments, the
refrain is sung by the
people.
Responsorial
Psalm 98:5-6, 7-8, 9
Cantor: The
Lord
comes to rule the earth with justice.
All: The
Lord comes to rule
the earth with justice.
Cantor: Sing praise to the Lord with the
harp, with the harp
and melodious song. With trumpets and the sound of the
horn sing joyfully
before the King, the Lord.
All: The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.
Cantor: Let the sea and what fills it resound,
the world and
those who dwell in it; let the rivers clap their hands, the
mountains shout
with them for joy.
All: The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.
Cantor: Before the Lord, for he comes, for he
comes to rule the
earth; he will rule the world with justice and the peoples with
equity.
All: The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.
The Second Reading: Taken from the New
Testament.
2
Thessalonians 3:7-12
Brothers
and sisters:
You know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a
disorderly way
among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone.
On the
contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as
not to burden
any of you. Not that we do not have the right.
Rather, we wanted to
present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate
us. In
fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone
was unwilling to
work, neither should that one eat. We hear that some are
conducting
themselves among you in a disorderly way, by not keeping busy
but minding the
business of others. Such people we instruct and urge in
the Lord Jesus
Christ to work quietly and to eat their own food.
The Alleluia:
An
ancient expression of joy anticipating the Lord's message we
will hear in the
Gospel.
Luke
21:28
Cantor:
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Alleluia!
All: R/.
Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Cantor: Stand erect and raise your
heads, because
your redemption is at hand.
All: R/.
Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
The Gospel:
The Liturgy of the Word is completed
by the reading of
the Gospel. Before its reading, the members of the
assembly trace the
sign of the cross upon the forehead to indicate their mental
acceptance of the
Truth, on the lips to indicate their readiness to announce
it, and over the
heart to indicate their sincere desire to accept it into
their lives. The
"Good News" of the Gospel tells that God's kingdom has come
for all
to hear, accept, and announce to the world for its
salvation. It is God
who is speaking to us. Christ comes to teach us by the
example of His
life and by His own words.
Gospel
- Luke
21:5-19
Luke
wrote to
explain that
Christ came to save everyone.
While some people were
speaking about how the
temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings,
Jesus said, “All
that you see here – the days will come when there will not e
left a stone upon
another stone that will not be thrown down.”
Then
they asked him,
“Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there
be when all
these things are about to happen?” He answered, “See that
you not be
deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and
‘The time has
come.’ Do not follow them! When you hear of wars and
insurrections,
do not be terrified; for such things must happen first, but it
will not
immediately be the end.” Then he said to them, “Nation
will rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be powerful
earthquakes,
famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and
mighty signs
will come from the sky.
“Before
all this happens,
however, they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you
over to the
synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before
kings and
governors because of my name. It will lead to your giving
testimony.
Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I
myself shall
give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be
powerless to
resist or refute. You will even be handed over by parents,
brothers,
relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to
death. You will
be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head
will be
destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your
lives.”
Priest: The
Gospel
of the Lord.
All: Praise
to
you, Lord Jesus Christ.
The Priest's Sermon:
The
priest develops, explains, and comments upon the Master's
words, so our minds
may be enlightened, and our hearts enriched.
(A
priestly reflection upon
this Gospel)
Profession of Faith:
We
state in the Nicene Creed the principles of our faith in
precise and definite
terms.
All: I
believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that
is seen and
unseen. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only
Begotten Son of
God, born of the Father before all ages. God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with
the Father;
through him all things were made. For us men and for our
salvation he
came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of
the Virgin Mary
and became man. For our sake he was crucified under
Pontius Pilate, he
suffered death and was buried and rose again on the third day in
accordance
with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated
at the right
hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge
the living and
the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in
the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and
the Son, who with
the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken
through the
prophets. I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic
Church. I
confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins, and I look for
the
resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to
come. Amen.
General Intercessions:
We pray for the needs of the pope,
civic leaders, our
own needs, those of others, the sick, the dying, those who
have died, the
church, and the world. The response of all to each
intercession: Lord,
hear our prayer.
All: Lord,
hear our prayer.
The Liturgy of the Eucharist
Gifts
of bread and
wine symbolizing ourselves are presented to the priest who
will offer them to
God the Father. Through the Holy Spirit, they will
become the Body and
Blood of Jesus Christ whom we receive in Holy
Communion. Jesus unites
Himself with us for our spiritual nourishment and
strength. Today, when
individuals do not present their own personal offerings of
bread and wine, the
monetary contribution symbolizes the material of their
united sacrifice.
The priest makes and offering of the bread and wine to God.
Preparation of the Bread and
Wine:
Priest: Blessed
are you, Lord
God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received
the bread we
offer you: fruit of the earth and work of human hands, it will
become for us
the bread of life.
All: Blessed
be God for ever.
Priest: By the
mystery of this
water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ,
who humbled
himself to share in our humanity.
Priest: Blessed
are you, Lord
God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received
the wine we
offer you; fruit of the vine and work of human hands it will
become our
spiritual drink.
All: Blessed
be God for ever.
Priest: With
humble spirit and
contrite heart may we be accepted by you,
O Lord, and may our sacrifice in your sight this day be pleasing
to you, Lord
God.
The Priest's Hands are
Washed: This
act was traditionally necessary because the priest
handled the various gifts presented by the people.
Now, the cleansing act
using water reminds the priest and ourselves of the need to
cleanse not only
the hands but the soul. Soon, the priest's hands will
hold the actual
body of Christ, and we will become His dwelling
place.
Priest: Wash me
O Lord, from m
iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be
acceptable to God,
the almighty Father.
All: May the
Lord accept the
sacrifice from your hands for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good
and the good of all his holy Church.
Prayer over the Gifts:
Speaking
in our name, the priest asks the Father to accept the gifts
we offer through
him.
Priest:
Grant,
O
Lord, we pray, that what we offer in the sight of your majesty
may obtain for
us the grace of being devoted to you and gain us the prize of
everlasting
happiness. Through Christ our Lord.
Eucharistic Prayer: (Number Four) The priest may select
from several
forms).
Priest: The
Lord be with you.
All: And
with your
spirit.
Priest: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift
them up to the
Lord.
Priest: Let us
give thanks to
the Lord, our God.
All: It is
right and
just.
Preface Prayer:
Priest: It
is
truly right to give you thanks, truly just to give you glory,
Father most holy,
for you are the one God living and true, existing before all
ages and abiding
for all eternity, dwelling in unapproachable light; yet you, who
alone are
good, the source of life, have made all that is, so that you
might fill your
creatures with blessings and bring joy to many of them by the
glory of your
light.
And so,
in your presence
are countless hosts of Angels, who serve you day and night and,
gazing upon the
glory of your face, glorify you without ceasing.
With
them we, too,
confess your name in exultation, giving voice to every creature
under heaven,
as we acclaim:
Acclamation:
Priest
and
All:
Holy,
Holy, Holy Lord,
God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your
glory. Hosanna in
the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Priest:
We
give you praise, Father most holy, for you are great and you
have fashioned all
your works in wisdom and in love. You formed man in your
own image and
entrusted the whole world to his care, so that in serving you
alone, the
Creator, he might have dominion over all creatures. And
when through
disobedience he had lost your friendship, you did not abandon
him to the domain
of death. For you came in mercy to the aid of all, so that
those who seek
might find you. Time and again you offered them covenants
and through the
prophets taught them to look forward to salvation.
And you
so loved the
world, Father most holy, that in the fullness of time you sent
your Only
Begotten Son to be our Savior. Made incarnate by the Holy
Spirit and born
of the virgin Mary, he shared our human nature in all things but
sin. To
the poor he proclaimed the good news of salvation, to prisoners,
freedom, and
to the sorrowful of heart, joy. To accomplish your plan,
he gave himself
up to death, and, rising from the dead, he destroyed death and
restored
life.
And
that we might live
no longer for ourselves but for him who died and rose again for
us, he sent the
Holy Spirit from you, Father, as the first fruits for those who
believe, so
that, bringing to perfection his work in the world, he might
sanctify creation
to the full.
Priest:
Therefore,
O
Lord we pray: may this same Holy Spirit graciously sanctify
these offerings,
that they may become the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
for the
celebration of this great mystery, which he himself left us as
an eternal
covenant.
The priest repeats the words which
Christ used at his
Last Supper when He changed the bread into His Body and the
wine into His
Blood. His Body and Blood are truly present but under
the appearance of
bread and wine. The death of Christ is prolonged in
each of those who
receive Him worthily. We apply His death to ourselves
so that we may
share His glory. This moment is the most solemn on
earth because it is
Divine act which enables us to apply to ourselves the Cross
which Christ willingly took upon Himself.
We are called to die to sin and lift
our very selves to
God so that we become changed; to do as God would have us
do, to become what
God would have us become. Our own little cross can
lift us into union
with Christ's Cross so we may earn the joys of everlasting
happiness with God
the Father.
The Lord's Supper: For when the hour had
come for him to be
glorified by you, Father most holy, having loved his own who
were in the world,
he loved them to the end: and while they were at supper, he took
bread, blessed
and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying:
In a
similar way, taking
the chalice filled with the fruit of the vine, he gave thanks,
and gave the
chalice to his disciples, saying:
Take this, all of you, and drink
from it; for this is the chalice of my
Blood, the Blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will
be poured out for
you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this
in memory of me.
Memorial Acclamation: (The
priest may select from several forms).
Priest: The
mystery of faith.
Priest / All: When we eat this Bread
and drink this Cup, we
proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.
Memorial Prayer: (The
priest may select from several forms).
Priest:
Recalls
Christ's
Passion, Resurrection, Ascension, the Church, the dead, and
ourselves.
Therefore, O Lord, as
we celebrate the memorial
of our redemption, we remember Christ's Death and his descent to
the realm of
the dead, we proclaim his resurrection and his Ascension to your
right hand,
and, as we await his coming in glory, we offer you his Body and
Blood, the
sacrifice acceptable to you which brings salvation to the whole
world.
Look, O
Lord, upon the
Sacrifice which you yourself have provided for your Church, and
grant in your
loving kindness to all who partake of this one Bread and one
Chalice that,
gathered into one body by the Holy Spirit, they may truly become
a living sacrifice
in Christ to the praise of your glory.
Therefore,
Lord,
remember now all for whom we offer this sacrifice: especially
your servant
_____ our Pope, _____ our Bishop, and the whole Order of
Bishops, all the
clergy, those who take part in this offering, those gathered
here before you,
your entire people, and all who seek you with a sincere
heart. Remember
also those who have died in the peace of your Christ and all the
dead, whose
faith you alone have known.
To all
of us, your
children, grant, O merciful Father, that we may enter into a
heavenly
inheritance with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, with
blessed Joseph,
her Spouse, and with your Apostles and Saints in your
kingdom. There,
with the whole of creation, freed from the corruption of sin and
death, may we
glorify you through Christ our Lord, through whom you bestow on
the world all
that is good.
Doxology:
Prayer of Praise:
Through
him, with him,
and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy
Spirit, all glory
and honor is yours, for ever and ever.
All:
Amen.
Communion Rite
In the Liturgy of the Eucharist, we
symbolically offer
ourselves to the Lord through the gifts of bread and
wine. At the
Consecration, we offer our very lives to be united the God
the Father through
the Cross of Christ. In Communion, we find that we
have not died at all
but have come to life. We have surrendered ourselves
to God through His
Divine Son, Jesus Christ. In return, we become
ennobled and enriched.
We give up time and we get eternity, we give up our sin and
we receive grace,
we surrender our self-will and receive the strength of the
Divine Will, we give
up ourselves and we receive everything. For the Son of
God says to us
that unless we receive Him, we shall not have Divine life in
us. But it
is not really we who receive Christ, as it is Christ who
receives us, bringing
us into Himself.
God makes His Cross the very means
of our salvation and
our life. While we have crucified Him, His eternal
love cannot be
extinguished. Christ willed to give us the very life
we crucified in our
Redemption, the Consecration of Holy Thursday into
Communion, His death into
our everlasting life.
The
Lord's Prayer:
Priest:
At
the
Savior's command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say:
Priest
and
All: Our
Father,
who art in heaven, hallowed be they name; Thy kingdom come; Thy
will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread, and
forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass
against us; and
lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
Priest:
Deliver
us,
Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our
days, that,
by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and
safe from all
distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our
Savior, Jesus
Christ.
All:
For the kingdom, the
power, and the glory are
yours, now and forever.
Prayer for Peace:
Priest:
Lord
Jesus
Christ, who said to your Apostles: Peace I leave you, my peace I
give
you, look not on our sins, but on the faith of your Church, and
graciously
grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will.
Who live and
reign for ever and ever.
All: Amen.
Priest:
The
peace
of the Lord be with you always.
All: And with your spirit.
Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of
peace.
Breaking of the Bread:
Priest:
May
this
mingling of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ bring
eternal life
to us who receive it.
Priest
and
All: Lamb
of
God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have
mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant
us peace.
Priestly
Preparation: Lord Jesus Christ, Son
of the living God, who,
by the will of the Father and the work of the Holy Spirit,
through your Death
gave life to the world, free me by this, your most holy Body and
Blood, from
all my sins and from every evil; keep me always faithful to your
commandments,
and never let me be parted from you.
All: Amen.
Priest: Behold
the Lamb of God,
behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed
are those called
to the supper of the Lamb.
Priest
and All:
Lord, I
am not worthy
that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and
my soul shall be
healed.
Priest: May the
Body of Christ
keep me safe for eternal life.
May the Blood of Christ keep me safe for eternal life.
Communion Antiphon
Psalm
73:28
To be
near God is my
happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.
Communion of the Faithful:
Priest: The
Body of Christ.
The
Faithful: Amen.
Priest/Deacon/
Extraordinary Eucharistic Minister: The Blood of
Christ.
The Faithful: Amen.
Cleansing of the
Vessels:
Priest:
What
has
passed our lips as food, O Lord, may we possess in purity of
heart, that
what has been given to us in time may be our healing for
eternity.
Prayer after Communion:
Priest: Let us
pray.
Priest: We have partaken of the gifts of this
sacred
mystery, humbly imploring, O Lord, that what your Son commanded
us to do in
memory of him may bring us growth in charity. Through
Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Concluding Rite
Priest: The
Lord be with you.
All: And with your
spirit.
Priest: Bow
down for the
blessing.
Dismissal Prayer: (The
priest may select from several forms)
Priest:
May
almighty
God always keep every adversity far from you and in his kindness
pour
out upon you the gifts of his blessing.
All: Amen.
Priest: May God keep your hearts attentive to his
words, that they
may be filled with everlasting gladness.
All: Amen.
Priest: And so, may you always understand what is
good and right,
and be found ever hastening along in the path of God's commands,
made coheirs
with the citizens of heaven.
All: Amen.
Final Blessing:
Priest: Look, O Lord, on the prayers of your
family, and grant
them the assistance they humbly implore, so that, strengthened
by the help they
need, they may persevere in confession your name. Through
Christ our
Lord.
All: Amen.
O
my Jesus, forgive us our sins.