PRIEST: We are gathered today for the Eucharist during the Synod Assembly in Rome…to share this glimpse of the great banquet of God’s love with our sisters and brothers who are marginalised, suffering and poor. We and they have been invited and called, simply because God loves us so much. The Holy Spirit is challenging us to be an all inclusive Church that rejects no-one. How do we to God’s invitation to the banquet? Do we come joyfully and with expectancy? Or do we come grudgingly and with little desire to receive? Do we allow the Eucharist really to change our lives? And who else do we invite to share the Banquet not only of Faith but also of Justice?
READER: For the times we ignore the invitations of God,
the promptings of His Spirit deep within us;
for the ways we silence the voice of God’s call…
LORD HAVE MERCY…
For the ways we avoid the challenge of the Word of God
to change, to grow, to serve and to proclaim…
CHRIST HAVE MERCY…
For our sins and those of the Church that stop so many
coming to God’s banquet of the Eucharist
and sharing in the mission of the Church…
LORD HAVE MERCY…
PRIEST: May the Father who calls us
welcome us to his banquet of forgiveness;
May the Redeemer, Jesus, break the bread of mercy for us;
May the Reconciling Spirit breath peace and new hope into our hearts
and bring us to everlasting life…
AMEN!