FUNERAL MASS IN THANKSGIVING FOR THE LIFE OF ___(insert name)________ ON ___________ AT _______AM/PM JESUS CARITAS CHURCH, KEPONG

AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE CHURCH Priest: O Lord, make clean (insert name)__________ whom you once purified by the water of baptism. All: Amen.

WHILE ENTERING THE CHURCH (As the body is wheeled into Church) PSALM 50 Response : YES, I SHALL ARISE AND RETURN TO MY FATHER (by the people) Commentator: 1 . 2 . 3 . To you O Lord, I lift up my soul In you, O my God, I place all my trust (Response) Look down on me, Have mercy O Lord Forgive me my sins, behold all my grief (Response) My heart and soul shall yearn for your face Be gracious to me and answer my plea (Response)

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4 .

Do not withhold your goodness from me O Lord, may your love be deep in my soul (Response) To you I pray, have pity on me My God I have sinned, against your great love (Response) Mercy I cry, O Lord, wash me clean And whiter than snow, my spirit shall be (Response) Give me again the joy of your help Now open my lips, your praise I will sing (Response)

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8 Happy is he, forgiven by God, . His sins blotted out, his guilt is no more (Response) Commentator : Today, we are gathered here to bid farewell to our late brother/sister, ____________, whom God has called from this life to himself. We praise and thank God for the gift of our brother/sister. May he/she enter into the heavenly home prepared for him/her. Let us begin with the Entrance Hymn: INTRODUCTORY RITE Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. All: Amen

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Priest: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. All: And with your spirit.

Priest: Dear friends, the Church received our brother/sister when he/she was baptized, to guide him/her towards everlasting life. The Church guided him/her while he/she was living among us. Today, the Church is going to lead him/her once more in his/her last journey. OPENING PRAYER Priest: Let us pray: O God, almighty Father, our faith professes that your Son died and rose again; mercifully grant, that through this mystery your servant ___________, who has fallen asleep in Christ, may rejoice to rise again through him. Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. People: Amen LITURGY OF THE WORD 1ST Reading: A Reading from __________________ The Word of the Lord. All: Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Response: I will walk in the presence of the Lord

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in the land of the living 1. How gracious is the Lord, and just; Our God has compassion The Lord protects the simple hearts; I was helpless so he saved me. (Response) I trusted even when I said: I am sorely afflicted, And when I said in my alarm No man can be trusted. (Response) O precious in the eyes of the Lord Is the death of his faithful Your servant, Lord, your servant am I; You have loosened my bonds. (Response)

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GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Alleluia, Alleluia (Recite) Now is the favourable time; This is the day of salvation. Alleluia, Alleluia (Recite)

GOSPEL A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John 11:17-27 On arriving at Bethany, Jesus found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days already. Bethany is only about two miles from Jerusalem and many Jews had
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come to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them over their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus had come she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house. Martha said to Jesus, If you had been here, my brother would not have died, but I know that, even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you. Your brother, said Jesus to her, will rise again Martha said, I know he will rise again at the resurrection on the last day. Jesus said: I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this? "Yes Lord" she said. "I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the One who was to come into this world." The Gospel of the Lord. All: Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. HOMILY: PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL : Response : LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER Priest: God the Almighty Father raised Christ His Son from the dead; with confidence we ask Him to save His people, living and dead. Let us pray for our brother/sister ____________ to our Lord Jesus Christ who said, I am the resurrection and the life. The man who believes in me will live even if he dies, and every living person who puts his faith in me will never suffer eternal death. Commentator: Lord Jesus, you wept at the death of Lazarus your friend, comfort us in our sorrow. We ask this in faith.
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All:

Lord Hear our Prayer

Commentator: Lord Jesus, you raised the dead to life. Give our brother/sister eternal life. We ask this in faith. All: Lord Hear our Prayer

Commentator: Lord Jesus, you promised Paradise to the thief who repented, bring our brother/sister to the joys of heaven. We ask this in faith. All: Lord Hear our Prayer

Commentator: Lord Jesus, our brother/sister was washed clean in Baptism and anointed with the oil of salvation, give him/her fellowship with all your saints. We ask this in faith. All: Lord Hear our Prayer

Commentator: Lord Jesus, comfort us in our sorrow at the death of our brother/sister, let our faith be our consolation and eternal life our hope. We ask this in faith. All: Priest: Lord Hear our Prayer Lord, listen to our prayers for our brother/sister, ____________ as he/she always desired to do your will, so in mercy forgive whatever wrong he/she may have done. By his/her Christian faith he/she was united with all your believing

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people. Now in love and mercy give him/her a place with your angels and saints. We ask this through Christ our Lord. All: Amen

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST Priest: Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours sacrifice may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father. All: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at 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: Priest: As we humbly present to you these sacrificial offerings, O Lord, for the salvation of your servant ____________, we beseech your mercy, that he/she, who did not doubt your Son to be a loving Saviour, may find in him a merciful Judge. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. All: Amen

Eucharistic Prayer: 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.

Memorial Acclamation:
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Priest: The mystery of faith. All: We proclaim your Death, O Lord and profess your Resurrection until you come again.

Doxology: Priest: Through Him, and with Him, and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is yours for ever and ever. All: Amen.

COMMUNION RITE Priest: At the Saviours command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say: All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy 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, from every evil, and graciously grant us 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 Saviour, Jesus Christ. All: For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and forever.

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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. 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. Priest: Behold the Lamb of God, behold him who takes away the sins of the world. Blessed are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb. All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.

COMMUNION HYMN : THANKSGIVING HYMN : PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION Priest: Let us pray.
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Lord God, whose Son left us, in the Sacrament of his Body, food for the journey, mercifully grant that, strengthened by it, our brother/sister may come to the eternal table of Christ. Who lives and reigns for ever and ever. All: Amen

FINAL COMMENDATION ( The body is sprinkled with holy water and incensed ) Priest: Dear friends, let us pay our last respects to this lifeless body of our brother/sister, __________. The sprinkling with holy water reminds us of the grace of baptism our brother/sister received while he/she was alive. The body is honoured with incense because through baptism our brother was a living temple of the Holy Spirit. (Silence to be observed at this time) Priest: Saints of God come to his/her aid. Come to meet him/her, angels of the Lord. All: Receive his/her soul and present him/her to God the most high.

Priest: May Christ who called you, take you to himself. May the angels lead you to Abrahams side. All : Receive him soul and present him to God the most high.

Priest : Give him eternal rest O Lord and may your light shine on him forever.
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All:

Receive his/her soul and present him/her to God the most high.

Priest: We commend our brother/sister, ____________to you Lord. Now that he/she has passed from this life, may he/she live in your presence. In your mercy and love forgive whatever sins he/she may have committed through human weakness. We ask this through Christ our Lord. All : Amen.

Priest: May the angels lead you into paradise, may the martyrs come to welcome you, and take you to the holy city, the new and eternal Jerusalem. EULOGY (If any) RECESSIONAL HYMN :

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