NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year A) August 10, 2014. “Take heart, it is I; have no fear” ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Look to your covenant, O Lord, and forget not the life of your poor ones for ever. Arise, O God, and defend your cause, and forget not the cries of those who seek you. (Ps 73:20,19,22,23) PENITENTIAL RITE The incident of Peter sinking and being saved by Jesus in today’s Gospel is clearly symbolic. Peter represents the typical disciple, caught between faith and doubt. Jesus’ rebuke, ‘Man of little faith, why did you doubt?’ Is directed at each one of us, who often start out courageously only to lose heart when faced with a crisis. We should never lose sight of the fact that the One, in whom we place our trust, is the Lord, who loves and cares for us and who has authority and power over everything and everyone. Let us humbly acknowledge that we lack faith, we have failed and we have sinned; let us turn to God now and ask His pardon and mercy. (Pause) I confess to almighty God and to you,my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God. Glory to God in the highest... COLLECT Almighty ever-living God, whom, taught by the Holy Spirit, we dare to call our Father, bring, we pray, to perfection in our hearts the spirit of adoption as your sons and daughters, that we may merit to enter into the inheritance which you have promised. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in unity with the Holy Spirit one GOD for ever and ever. Amen.
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