Saturday of the 4th Week of Lent
April 5, 2025
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Entrance Hymn: Return to God (RS 563)
Return to God with all your heart, the source of grace and mercy;
come seek the tender faithfulness of God.
Now the time of grace has come, the day of salvation;
come and learn now the way of our God.
I will take your heart of stone and place a heart within you,
a heart of compassion and love.
If you break the chains of oppression, if you set the pris’ner free;
if you share your bread with the hungry, give protection to the lost;
give a shelter to the homeless, clothe the naked in your midst,
then your light shall break forth like the dawn.
Text: Marty Haugen, b.1950, © 1990, 1991, GIA Publications, Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Scripture Readings (external link): Saturday of the 4th Week of Lent
Responsorial: Psalm 90
R: In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Preparation Hymn: O God, You Search Me (RS 688)
O God, you search me and you know me.
All my thoughts lie open to your gaze.
When I walk or lie down you are before me:
Ever the maker and keeper of my days.
You know my resting and my rising.
You discern my purpose from afar,
And with love everlasting you besiege me:
In ev’ry moment of life or death, you are.
Before a word is on my tongue, Lord,
You have known its meaning through and through.
You are with me beyond my understanding:
God of my present, my past and future, too.
Although your Spirit is upon me,
Still I search for shelter from your light.
There is nowhere on earth I can escape you:
Even the darkness is radiant in your sight.
For you created me and shaped me,
Gave me life within my mother’s womb.
For the wonder of who I am, I praise you:
Safe in your hands, all creation is made new.
Text: Based on Psalm 139. Text and music © 1992, Bernadette Farrell. Published by OCP. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Communion Hymn: Come to the Water (RS 690)
O let all who thirst,
let them come to the water.
And let all who have nothing,
let them come to the Lord:
without money, without price.
Why should you pay the price,
except for the Lord?
And let all who seek,
let them come to the water.
And let all who have nothing,
let them come to the Lord:
without money, without strife.
Why should you spend your life,
except for the Lord?
And let all who toil,
let them come to the water.
And let all who are weary,
let them come to the Lord:
all who labor, without rest.
How can your soul find rest,
except for the Lord?
And let all the poor,
let them come to the water,
Bring the ones who are laden,
bring them all to the Lord:
bring the children without might.
Easy the load and light:
come to the Lord.
Text: Based on Isaiah 55:1–2; Matthew 11:28–30. Text and music © 1978, John B. Foley, S.J., and OCP. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Exposition & Adoration: O Salutaris (RS 179)
O salutáris hóstia,
Quae caeli pandis óstium:
Bella premunt hostília,
Da robur fer auxílium.
Uni trinóque Dómino
Sit sempitérna glória:
Qui vitam sine término
Nobis donet in pátria.
Text: Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1275; tr. by Edward Caswall, 1814-1878, alt. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Exposition & Adoration: There Is a Longing (RS 771)
There is a longing in our hearts, O Lord,
For you to reveal yourself to us
There is a longing in our hearts for love
We only find in you, our God.
For justice, for freedom, for mercy:
hear our prayer.
In sorrow, in grief:
be near, hear our prayer, O God.
For wisdom, for courage, for comfort:
hear our prayer.
In weakness, in fear:
be near, hear our prayer, O God.
For healing, for wholeness, for new life:
hear our prayer.
In sickness, in death:
be near, hear our prayer, O God.
Lord save us, take pity,
light in our darkness.
We call you, we wait:
be near, hear our prayer, O God.
© 1992, Anne Quigley. Published by OCP. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Benediction: Tantum Ergo (181)
Tantum ergo Sacraméntum
Venerémur cérnui:
Et antiquum documéntum
Novo cedat ritui:
Praestet fides suppleméntum
Sénsuum deféctui.
Genitóri, Genitóque
Laus et iubilátio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedíctio:
Procedénti ab utróque
Compar sit laudátio.
Text: Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1275; tr. by James Quinn, SJ, © 1969. Used by permission of Selah Publishing Co., Inc. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Benediction: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (RS 705)
Holy God, we praise thy name!
Lord of all, we bow before thee;
All on earth thy scepter claim,
All in heav’n above adore thee;
Infinite thy vast domain,
Everlasting is thy reign.
Infinite thy vast domain,
Everlasting is thy reign.
Hark! the loud celestial hymn
Angel choirs above are raising;
Cherubim and Seraphim
In unceasing chorus praising,
Fill the heav’ns with sweet accord:
Holy, holy, holy Lord!
Fill the heav’ns with sweet accord:
Holy, holy, holy Lord!
Holy Father, Holy Son,
Holy Spirit, Three we name thee,
While in essence only One,
Undivided God we claim thee,
And adoring bend the knee,
While we own the mystery.
And adoring bend the knee,
While we own the mystery.
Text: Grosser Gott, wir loben dich; ascr. to Ignaz Franz, 1719-1790; tr. by Clarence Walworth, 1820-1900 Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.
Procession: Hail, Holy Queen Enthroned Above (RS 979)
Hail, holy Queen enthroned above, O Maria.
Hail, Queen of mercy and of love, O Maria.
Triumph, all ye Cherubim,
Sing with us, ye Seraphim,
Heav’n and earth resound the hymn:
Salve, Salve, Salve, Regina.
The cause of joy to all below, O Maria.
The spring through which all graces flow, O Maria.
Angels, all your praises bring,
Earth and heaven, with us sing,
All creation echoing:
Salve, Salve, Salve, Regina.
O gentle, loving, holy one, O Maria.
The God of light became your Son, O Maria.
Triumph, all ye Cherubim,
Sing with us, ye Seraphim,
Heav’n and earth resound the hymn:
Salve, Salve, Salve, Regina.
Text: Salve, Regina, mater misericordia; c.1080; tr. Roman Hymnal, 1884; st. 2-3 adapt. by M. Owen Lee, CSB, b.1930. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE License #A-727305.