EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
THROUGH THE LITURGICAL YEAR (Vol. 2, n. 50)
31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
November 5-11, 2006
“Love With All Your Heart”
(+) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
(A moment of silence)
SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or any appropriate song may be sung.
WORDS OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES
Because God created us in his own image and likeness, he ordained that our love for one another should be in the image and likeness of the love we owe him, our God. You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart. This is the first and greatest commandment. The second is like it: You must love your neighbor as yourself. What is our reason for loving God? God himself is the reason we love him; we love him because he is the supreme and infinite goodness.
What is the reason for loving ourselves? Surely because we are the image and likeness of God. And since all men and women possess this same dignity we love them as ourselves, that is, as holy and living images of the Godhead. It is as such that we belong to God through a kinship so close and a dependence so lovable that he does not hesitate to call himself our Father, and to name us his children … Just as we are the image of God, so our holy love for one another is the true image of our heavenly love for God.”
SILENT ADORATION
OPENING PRAYER
Leader: Loving Father,
bless and strengthen your people.
May they remain faithful to you
and always rejoice in your mercy.
Grant them the grace to carry out
your twofold command of love of God and neighbor
according to the example of Jesus,
our Lord and Divine Master,
now and forever.
Assembly: Amen.
Part I
JESUS MASTER TRUTH
Listening to the Word
FIRST READING: Dt 6:2-6
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
GOSPEL READING: Mk 12:28b-34
PERSONAL REFLECTION
(As a tool for personal reflection, please visit the PDDM Website: www.pddm.org // www.pddm.us for BREAKING THE BREAD OF THE WORD [Series 4, n. 50]: A Lectio Divina Approach to the Sunday Liturgy. The Biblico-Liturgical Reflections are an aid for a deeper understanding of the Gospel reading.)
SONG: Any Eucharistic hymn or suitable song of praise may be sung.
Part II
JESUS MASTER WAY
Confrontation with the Word
POINTS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE HEART
A. What is our response to Jesus’ great command: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart … You shall love your neighbor as yourself”? How do we try to put this twofold command into practice?
B. Are we capable of wholehearted love and service? If not, what do we do to improve our capacity for loving and giving?
C. Do we look to Jesus’ total self-giving upon the cross? Is our life shaped and energized by the Divine Master’s example of total self-giving and sacrificial love? Do we contemplate the Eucharist as the sacrament of love – of the One who has loved us to the end?
PRAYING WITH THE WORD
Leader: We adore you, O wonderful Sacrament of the presence
of the One who loved his own “to the end”.
We thank you, O Lord,
who edifies, gathers together and gives life to the Church.
O Divine Eucharist,
flame of Christ’s love that burns on the altar of the world,
make the Church comforted by you,
even more caring in wiping away the tears of suffering
and in sustaining the efforts of all who yearn for justice and peace.
May your love triumph, now and forever.
Assembly: Jesus
Part III
JESUS LIFE
Acting upon the Word
PERSONAL PRAYER
CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST: The Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary may be prayed in part or in full.
THE WAY OF SOLIDARITY: PRAYER OF INTERCESSION
Priest: Trusting in the Divine Master, who taught us the way of love and truth that leads to life, let us turn to him in prayer and say:
(R.) LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER!
1. For the Holy Father’s General Intention for the month of November: FOR THE WORLD: May it be freed from the threat of terrorism: let us pray. (R.)
2. For the Holy Father’s Mission Intention for the month of November: FOR BELIEVERS EVERYWHERE: May they work to remove old and new barriers to Africa’s development: let us pray. (R.)
3. For those who endeavor to love God and neighbor more intensely and more efficaciously: let us pray. (R.)
4. For those who love and embrace the poor and vulnerable and for those who share their bread with the hungry and needy: we pray: (R.)
5. For those who work towards an authentic global solidarity and promote God’s kingdom of love, justice and peace: we pray: (R.)
6. For all those who have died in the peace of Christ and for all the souls in purgatory: we pray: (R.)
(Other prayers may be added.)
THE LORD’S PRAYER
CONCLUDING PRAYER
Leader: Lord,
we rejoice that you are our creator and ruler.
You are the font of love and service.
As we call upon your generosity,
renew and keep us in your love.
Grant this through Christ our Lord.
Assembly: Amen.
FINAL SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or song of praise may be sung.
Prepared by Sr. Mary Margaret Tapang PDDM
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