4TH SUNDAY OF EASTER

OPENING SONG: “Festival Canticle”

GLORY TO GOD

LITURGY OF THE WORD

1ST

READING: Acts 2:14, 36-41

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Psalm 23

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

2ND

READING: 1 Peter 2:20-25

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

GOSPEL: John 10:1-10

HOMILY

UNIVERSAL PRAYER

PREPARATION OF GIFTS: “The King of Love My Shepherd Is”

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY: R. Proulx

MYSTERY OF FAITH:

AMEN:

THE LORD’S PRAYER

LAMB OF GOD:

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

I am the Good Shepherd; I know my sheep, and mine know me.

COMMUNION MEDITATION

This song was composed by Fr. J. Michael Joncas, composer of “On Eagle’s Wings”. Here are his notes:

These are difficult times for all of us, individually and globally. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life

as normal and called for acts of corporate and indiviual heroism in the face of present suffering and un-

certain future. People of faith may be struggling to atriculate their belief in an all-good and all-powerful

God in this new era.

“Shelter Me” – is my attempt as a church composer to find God’s presence even in these fraught times.

Based on the beloved Psalm 23, my paraphrase adapts the psalmist’s sentiments to respond to our present

anxieties.

All music in this worship aid is used with permission. Reprinted une OneLicense.net #A-702491

CLOSING HYMN: “At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing”