October 19, 2025
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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Entrance Hymn: Praise to You, O Christ Our Savior (RS 702)
Praise to you, O Christ, our Savior, Word of the Father, calling us to life;
Son of God who leads us to freedom: glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
You are the Word who calls us out of darkness;
You are the Word who leads us into light;
You are the Word who brings us through the desert:
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
You are the one whom prophets hoped and longed for;
You are the one who speaks to us today;
You are the one who leads us to our future;
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
You are the Word who calls us to be servants;
You are the Word whose only law is love;
You are the Word made flesh who lives among us:
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
You are the Word who binds us and unites us;
You are the Word who calls us to be one;
You are the Word who teaches us forgiveness:
Glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
Text: Bernadette Farrell, b.1957, © 1986, Bernadette Farrell, published by OCP Publications.
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Text: Laudato si, mi Signor; Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226; tr. by William H. Draper, 1855-1933, alt.
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Scripture Readings (external link): 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Responsorial: Psalm 121
R: Our help is from the Lord who made heaven and earth.
Preparation Hymn: Litany of Peace
God of love, your gift of peace is planted
deep within our hearts:
Make me an instrument of your peace.
Make me an instrument of your peace.
God of peace, wherever there is hatred,
may we bring your love:
May we bring your hope and gladness
where despair and sadness are:
May we seek to understand another
with a patient heart:
Faithful God, wherever there is darkness,
may we bring your light:
God of mercy, help us to forgive
when there is injury done:
Gracious God, whenever people hunger,
may we fill their need:
Set us free from all our fear and anger;
set us free to love:
Text: Based on the prayer traditionally ascr. to St. Francis of Assisi, 1182–1226.
Text and music © 2002, 2006, Barbara Bridge. Published by OCP. All rights reserved.
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Communion Hymn: How Can I Keep From Singing (RS 802)
My life flows on in endless song
Above earth’s lamentation.
I hear the real though far-off hymn
That hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm,
While to that rock I’m clinging.
Since Christ is Lord of heaven and earth,
How can I keep from singing?
Through all the tumult and the strife,
I hear that music ringing;
it sounds and echoes in my soul;
How can I keep from singing?
What, though my joys and comfort die,
The Lord, my savior liveth.
What though the darkness gather ’round?
Songs in the night it giveth.
The peace of Christ makes fresh my heart,
A fountain ever springing.
All things are mine since I am his;
How can I keep from singing?
Text: Robert Lowry, 1826-1899 Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Concluding Hymn: Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (RS 1030)
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus!
His the scepter, his the throne.
Alleluia! His the triumph,
His the victory alone.
Hark! The songs of peaceful Zion
Thunder like a mighty flood:
“Jesus out of ev’ry nation
Has redeemed us by his blood.”
Alleluia! Not as orphans
Are we left in sorrow now;
Alleluia! He is near us;
Faith believes, nor questions how.
Though the cloud from sight received him
When the forty days were o’er,
Shall our hearts forget his promise,
“I am with you evermore”?
Alleluia! Bread of angels,
Here on earth our food, our stay!
Alleluia! Here the sinful
Flee to you from day to day.
Intercessor, friend of sinners,
Earth’s redeemer, plead for me,
Where the songs of all the sinless
Sweep across the crystal sea.
Alleluia! King eternal,
You the Lord of lords we own;
Alleluia! Born of Mary,
Earth your footstool, heav’n your throne.
You within the veil, have entered,
Robed in flesh, our great high priest;
Here on earth both priest and victim
In the eucharistic feast.
Text: Revelation 5:9; William C. Dix, 1837-1898
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Alternate Hymn: In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light my strength my song
This Cornerstone this solid Ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love what depths of peace
When fears are stilled when strivings cease
My Comforter my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Till on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From life’s first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell no scheme of man
Can ever pluck me from His hand
Till He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand
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