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INTRODUCTORY RITE

Commentator: Good morning, dear brothers and sisters.

Today, we celebrate a new beginning for the graduates, parents,
faculty and staff of Marcelli School of Antipolo. We offer to God the gift of
ourselves and blessings we receive. As we prepare in this Holy Eucharist, we
obtain love and hardships in our everyday lives. Let us then look back and
reminisce the toils and travails of the past. Let us not forget our parents,
mentors, and other people whose passion, dedication, and guidance have
molded us to become a blessing as individuals as well as faithful citizens of
God’s Kingdom.
Our mass presider for this special occasion is Rev. Fr. Rex Ablay.
Please all rise and sing our Entrance Song.

Processional
Entrance Song
At Home in Our Hearts
You who welcomed Christ into your home
You who must have washed the Savior's feet
Are truly blest, you who fed the Lord when weary and
Forlorn
Blest are you who served the Lord's needs

You with whom He shared His wondrous deeds

You to whom He bared His broken dreams
Are truly blest, you whom Jesus sought before His lonely
End
Blest are you whom Jesus called His friend

REFRAIN:
And so we pray, now and always
That we might serve the Lord as selflessly
By feeding those in need, their woes making our own
In our hearts may Jesus find a home
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You who begged the Lord to raise His friend OPENING PRAYER
You who knew our death He would amend CELEBRANT: Let us pray… (Pause)
Are truly blest, You whom Jesus heard say, "You are the
Messiah Pour your grace into our hearts, we pray, O Lord, that we may be constantly
The Son of God who comes into the world!" (REFRAIN) drawn away from unruly desires and obey by your own gift the heavenly
teaching you give us.
Call to Worship
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in
Celebrant: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever,
All: Amen ALL: Amen

CELEBRANT: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and
COMMENTATOR: Let us all be seated and listen to the Word of God.
the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
ALL: And with Your spirit.
1st Reading: Jeremiah 20: 10-13
10 For I hear many whispering.
CELEBRANT: As we prepare ourselves for this Eucharist, let us confess to
God and to each other our faults against our brothers. Terror is on every side!
ALL: I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”
have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done say all my familiar friends,
and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through
watching for my fall.
my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary Ever-Virgin, all the
Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the “Perhaps he will be deceived,
Lord our God. then we can overcome him,

CELEBRANT: May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and and take our revenge on him.”
bring us to everlasting life. 11 But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior;

ALL: Amen. therefore my persecutors will stumble,

they will not overcome me.
Penitential Rites (Kyrie) They will be greatly shamed,
CELEBRANT: Lord, have mercy for they will not succeed.
ALL: Lord, have mercy
Their eternal dishonor
CELEBRANT: Christ, have mercy
will never be forgotten.
ALL: Christ, have mercy
12 O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous,
CELEBRANT: Lord, have mercy
ALL: Lord, have mercy who seest the heart and the mind,
let me see thy vengeance upon them,
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GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
for to thee have I committed my cause.
ALL: Alleluia, alleluia. Lord Jesus, open the Scriptures to us; make our
13 Sing to the LORD; hearts burn while you speak to us. Alleluia, alleluia.
praise the LORD!
For he has delivered the life of the needy GOSPEL READING
from the hand of evildoers. John 10- 31-42

CELEBRANT: A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.

READER: The Word of the Lord.
ALL: Glory to You, O Lord.
ALL: Thanks be to God
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Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him, 32 but Jesus
RESPONSORIAL PSALM said to them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For
which of these do you stone me?”
Response: I will love thee, O Lord, My strength

1. The Lord is my firmament, my refuge, and my deliverer. My God is my

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“We are not stoning you for any good work,” they replied, “but for

helper, and in him will I put my trust. My protector and the horn of my blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.”

salvation, and my support. (Response) 34

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I have said you are
“gods”’[a]? 35 If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the word of God came—and
2. Praising I will call upon the Lord: and I shall be saved from my enemies.
Scripture cannot be set aside— 36 what about the one whom the Father set
The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled
apartas his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of
me. (Response)
blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’? 37 Do not believe me unless I
do the works of my Father. 38 But if I do them, even though you do not
3. The sorrows of death surrounded me: and the torrents of iniquity troubled
believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the
me. The sorrows of hell encompassed me: and the snares of death
Father is in me, and I in the Father.” 39 Again they tried to seize him, but he
prevented me. (Response)
escaped their grasp.

4. In my affliction I called upon the Lord, and I cried to my God: And he heard 40
Then Jesus went back across the Jordan to the place where John had
my voice from his holy temple: and my cry before him came into his ears. been baptizing in the early days. There he stayed, 41
and many people came
(Response)
to him. They said, “Though John never performed a sign, all that John said
COMMENTATOR: Please rise for the gospel. about this man was true.” 42 And in that place many believed in Jesus.

CELEBRANT: The Gospel of the Lord

ALL: Praise to You, Lord, Jesus Christ.
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COMMENTATOR: Graduates, please remain standing for the Graduation

HOMILY
Promises

COMMENTATOR: Please stand CELEBRANT: God´s beloved sons and daughters, the day of your
graduation has come. Some of you will leave the school and take your place
PROFESSION OF FAITH in society. Others will continue their studies to be better equipped to serve in
the future. This day marks a new start in your lives. Look then, with
ALL: I believe in one God,
the Father almighty, gratitude to the past and thank God for all the benefits he lavishly poured on
maker of heaven and earth, you in the years of formation. Look also with confidence, to the future. God
of all things visible and invisible. is faithful. He who surrounded your childhood and adolescence with loving
care will also carry out what he has chosen that you may bear fruit and that
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, your fruit may remain. Now take the road and live in accordance with your
the Only Begotten Son of God, sublime calling. Today, with the help of His grace, in the presence of your
born of the Father before all ages. parents and friends, you will pledge fidelity to your calling. Therefore, I ask
God from God, Light from Light, you:
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made. CELEBRANT: Do you promise to live for Jesus Christ who died for you?
For us men and for our salvation PUPILS: We do Promise.
he came down from heaven,and by the Holy Spirit was
incarnate of the Virgin Mary,and became man. CELEBRANT: Do you promise to forget yourselves and to serve Christ in
your neighbor, at home and in society?
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, PUPILS: We do Promise.
he suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
CELEBRANT: Do you promise to keep your Catholic faith burning in your
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven hearts, to profess it steadfastly and live it faithfully until death?
and is seated at the right hand of the Father. PUPILS: We do Promise.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead CELEBRANT: Do you promise to give glory to God every Sunday by
and his kingdom will have no end. offering the Mass and sharing the Bread of Life with the Christian
community?
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, PUPILS: We do Promise.
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.
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins CELEBRANT: Almighty, Eternal God, in your providence and merciful love,
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead you made us Your beloved sons and daughters. We pray that You increase
and the life of the world to come. Amen the spirit of filial love You instilled in us on the day of Your baptism. We pray.
ALL: Lord, hear our prayer.
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STUDENT READER: The graduating class has nothing but praise for you,
dispel darkness and bring light to those living in misery and gloom. May
Almighty Father. As we enter a new world of competition and challenge, we
those whom we meet see the light of Your Son Jesus in us.
ask for guidance and enlightenment to face everything head on. Let us pray
to the Lord.
BIBLE: Take, O Lord, the symbol of our faith in You. You have given
ALL: Lord, hear our prayer.
direction to our life, hope in our aspiration, and the constant assurance of
your love. Allow us to be living witnesses to Your Word.
STUDENT READER: God of Wisdom, we pray for the administration and
staff. of Marcelli School of Antipolo. who have taken part in our growth during CRUCIFIX: We recognize how much You love us, O Lord, that You
these past years. We ask that you bless them with happiness in their even offered the life of your Son Jesus, for us. May the crucifix be our
endeavours. Let us pray to the Lord. constant reminder of this Sacrifice, that we will ever be willing to carry our
ALL: Lord, hear our prayer. own crosses, knowing that You will always be there.
FLOWERS AND FRUITS: Accept these flowers and fruits, O Lord,
STUDENT READER: For students, may we have the wisdom to discern symbolic of the fruits of labor we patiently cared for to beautify life. The time
between good and evil and follow the path to righteousness. May we always we planted them was not so long ago and the time is here to harvest these
value education and utilize our knowledge to bring progress, joy, and peace flowers and fruits. These are symbols of our struggles, fruits of our efforts
to the world. Let us pray to the Lord. and qualities many of us are proud of.
ALL: Lord, hear our prayer.
BOOKS: We have dedicated our lives in the search of knowledge
and wisdom. We braved the hardship and difficulties in the years of struggle
STUDENT READER: Bless our relatives and friends, give them constant
and perseverance. Accept O Lord, these symbolic of our dreams and
encouragement, and guide them throughout their lives. Let us pray to the
aspirations.
Lord.
ALL: Lord, hear our prayer. DIPLOMAS AND MEDALS: Accept Father, these medals and
diplomas symbolic of our triumph and success. These are fulfillment of our
CELEBRANT: Let us pray. May the Lord help you keep your promises, and dreams, the prize we ought to share to everybody. You have enriched our
may he take you one day with all those whom you love to the heavenly place lives and watched us grow. You lit the paths we have trodden. We offer now
he has prepared for you from all eternity. We ask this through Christ our to You, Father these diplomas as gesture of our realization to face a new life,
Lord. new dreams to fulfill, new ladders to climb, new mountains to surmount and
ALL: Amen new roads to cross.
WATER AND WINE: Water to cleanse our evil desires for the
COMMENTATOR: Please remain standing for the offertory materialistic world around us. We offer You Father, symbolic of the joys and
pains, the sweat shed in order to attain the realization of our dreams.
Accept, O Lord, the symbol of Your Son´s blood as we together share His
OFFERTORY pains and suffering all for the love, trust, and unity of your children.
CANDLES: You alone shine in the darkness of our lives. In times of
despair, you give us hope. You gifted us with innumerable things and events HOST: We offer this Host ourselves, that you may bless us with
during the years that we went with you. Accept these candles, Lord, Love and Hope. Without You, we are nothing and can do nothing. Just as
symbolic of your unending guidance and care for us. Like you, may we
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this transformed into Your body, transform our lives too so that we may EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
become the instruments of Your love and glory. CELEBRANT: The Lord be with you.
ALL: And with Your spirit.
COMMENTATOR: Please all be seated
CELEBRANT: Lift up your hands.
ALL: We lift them up to the Lord.
Lord, We Gather Today
CELEBRANT: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
Lord, we gather today, in Your house we kneel down and pray. ALL: It is right and just.
We ask for your mercy as we open our hearts
CELEBRANT: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, at all
to receive your forgiveness O Lord.
times to acclaim you, O Lord, but in this time above all to laud you yet more
gloriously, when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.
Lord, we lift unto you, all these gifts we offer for your glory. Through him the children of light rise to eternal life and the halls of
We will eat this living bread, we will drink this saving cup the heavenly Kingdom are thrown open to the faithful; for His death is our
and feel your presence O Lord. ransom from death, and in his rising the life of all has risen.
Therefore, overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people
As we offer this bread and as we bring you this wine, exults in your praise and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts,
sing together the unending hymn of your glory, as they claim…
bless them Lord Jesus feed us now, give us life.
Send us your spirit the source of our lives ALL: Holy, holy, holy, Lord, God of hosts
and together we will serve you with love. Heaven and earth are full of your glory, full of your glory.
Hossana in the highest (2x)
COMMENTATOR: Please all stand. Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
Hossana in the highest (2x)
Hossana in the highest (2x)
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
CELEBRANT: Pray brothers and sisters that this sacrifice may be CONSECRATION
acceptable to God, the Almighty Father. COMMENTATOR: Please remain standing
ALL: May the Lord accept this sacrifice at your hands, for the praise and (After the consecration of the bread and wine, the priest will say…)
glory of His name, for our good and the good of all His holy Church. CELEBRANT: The mystery of our faith.

CELEBRANT: Receive, O Lord, we pray, the offerings of your exultant ALL: We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until
Church, and as you have given her cause for such great gladness, grant also you come again.
that the gifts we bring may bear fruit in perpetual happiness.
Through Christ our Lord. CELEBRANT: Therefore, as we celebrate…
ALL: Amen. (The priest takes the chalice and the paten with the host and raising both, he
says:)
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CELEBRANT: …Through Him, and with Him, and in Him, O God, almighty
Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, forever and ALL: Peace be with You.
ever.
Lamb of God
ALL: AMEN
CELEBRANT: Let us pray with confidence to the Father in the words our Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us
Savior gave 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. Grant us
peace.
THE LORD’S PRAYER
LEADER: Please remain standing.
Our Father, who art in heaven
hallowed be thy Name, Celebrant: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of
thy kingdom come, the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.
thy will be done, ALL: Lord, I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof, only say the
on earth as it is in heaven. Word, and my soul shall be healed.
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses, COMMUNION SONG
as we forgive those
who trespass against us. Make Me a Channel of Your Peace
And lead us not into temptation, Make me a channel of your peace
but deliver us, deliver us from evil.. Amen. Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in you
CELEBRANT: Deliver us Lord from every evil and grant us peace in our
day. In Your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as Make me a channel of your peace
we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, only light
ALL: For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are Yours, now and forever. And where there's sadness, ever joy
CELEBRANT: Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your Apostles, Peace I leave
REFRAIN:
you, my peace I give you, look not on our sins, but on the faith of your
Oh, master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
Church, and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your To be understood as to understand
will. Who live and reign for ever and ever. To be loved as to love with all my soul
ALL: Amen. Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
CELEBRANT: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
In giving of ourselves that we receive
ALL: And with Your spirit. And in dying that we're born to eternal life (REFRAIN)

CELEBRANT: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

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Celebrant: May your strength be at work in us, O Lord, pervading our minds
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring your love and bodies that what we have received by participating in this Sacrament
may bring us the fullness of redemption. Through Christ our Lord.
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in you
ALL: Amen.
THANKSGIVING PRAYER
COMMENTATOR: May I request all graduating pupils to stand. PRIEST: The Lord Be with you.
STUDENT READER: Holy God, You are the source and the origin of all
good! With joyful hearts, we come before You and offer You our thanks for
ALL: And with Your Spirit.
the numerous blessings and graces You have bestowed on us.
ALL: Praise the Lord for He is kind, forever lasts His love.
CELEBRANT: Bow your heads and pray for God’s blessing…(Pause)
STUDENT READER: We thank You Heavenly Father, because you created Hasten to the aid of your faithful people who call upon you, O Lord, we pray,
us and destined us to share Your eternal glory. and graciously give strength in their human weakness, so that, being
dedicated to you in complete sincerity, they may find gladness in your
ALL: Praise the Lord, for He is kind, forever lasts His love.
remedies both now and in the life to come.
STUDENT READER: We thank You, Holy Spirit, for Your merciful love in Through Christ our Lord.
making us children of God and members of the Church in baptism. You also ALL: AMEN.
continuously pour on us richness of Your grace.
CELEBRANT: And may the blessing of the almighty God, (+) the Father, the
ALL: Praise the Lord, for He is kind, forever lasts His love. Son, and the Holy Spirit, come upon you and remain with you for ever.
STUDENT READER: We thank you Lord, for all Your Fatherly love and ALL: AMEN.
Your goodness and mercy.
CELEBRANT: Our celebration is ended. Go in peace of the risen Lord!
ALL: Thank you also for the progress in our work, for the consolation in our ALL: Thanks be to God.
pains, for every prayer You have heard.
STUDENT READER: We thank You, O Lord, for the years spent in this
RECESSIONALSONG
school, for the unselfish service and loving patience of our teachers and for
Shine, Jesus, Shine
the sacrifices of our parents to provide us with a truly Christian education.
ALL: Bless them, O Lord, and reward them a hundredfold.
Lord, the Light of Your Love is shining,
In the midst of the darkness shining,
STUDENT READER: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Jesus, Light of the World, shine upon us,
Spirit.
ALL: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end.
Set us free by the truth You now bring us,
Amen.
Shine on me. Shine on me.
Celebrant: Let us pray.
REFRAIN:
Shine, Jesus shine,
COMMENTATOR: Please stand.
Fill this land with the Father's glory.
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Set our hearts on fire.

Flow, river flow,

Flood the nations with grace and mercy.
Send forth Your word,
Lord and let there be light.

Lord I come to Your awesome presence,

From the shadows into Your radiance.
By the blood I may enter Your brightness,
Search me, try me, consume all my darkness.
Shine on me. Shine on me. (REFRAIN)

As we gaze on Your kindly brightness.

So our faces display Your likeness.
Ever changing from glory to glory,
Mirrored here may our lives tell Your story.
Shine on me. Shine on me. (REFRAIN)

Shine, Jesus shine,

Fill this land with the Father's glory.
Blaze, Spirit blaze,
Set our hearts on fire.
Flow, river flow,
Flood the nations with grace and mercy.
Send forth Your word,
Lord and let there be light.

Let there be light.

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#6 Marigman St., Brgy. San Roque
Antipolo City

12 April 2019 at 9:00 AM

Marcelli School of Antipolo

Rev. Fr. Rex Ablay

Mass Celebrant