The Coming of the Lord

When the Lord Comes

Where will you be? What will you be doing? Will you be playing a game of solitaire in the evening? Will you be working on paperwork? Will you be driving a car? Will you be watching TV? Will you be eating? Will you be having a drink with friends? What will it be like? Will there be sounds in the sky? Colors? Bright lights flashing? The sun: will it be shaking in the heavens

Antiphon

To you, I lift up my soul, O my God. In you, I have trusted; let me not be put to shame. Nor let my enemies exult over me; and let none who hope in you be put to shame.

Grant your faithful, we pray, almighty God, the resolve to run forth to meet your Christ with righteous deeds at his coming, so that, gathered at his right hand, they may be worthy to possess the heavenly Kingdom. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

Accept, we pray, O Lord, these offerings we make, gathered from among your gifts to us, and may what you grant us to celebrate devoutly here below gain for us the prize of eternal redemption. Through Christ our Lord.

The Lord will bestow his bounty, and our earth shall yield its increase.

May these mysteries, O Lord, in which we have participated, profit us, we pray, for even now, as we walk amid passing things, you teach us by them to love the things of heaven and hold fast to what endures. Through Christ our Lord.