First reading
Genesis 14:18–20
Melchizedek brought bread and wine.
Responsorial psalm
Psalm 109(110):1–4
R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.
Second reading
1 Corinthians 11:23–26
Every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are proclaiming the death of the Lord.
Gospel acclamation
John 6:51–52
I am the living bread from heaven, says the Lord; whoever eats this bread will live for ever.
Gospel
Luke 9:11–17
The feeding of the five thousand.
Images from the Word
- Welcome
- Give them
- All eat
- Blessed
- Memorial
Liturgical notes
In the eucharistic prayer, the priest:
Invites the people to lift up their hearts to the Lord in prayer and thanksgiving; he unites the congregation with himself in the Prayer that he addresses in the name of the entire community to God the Father through Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit.
—General Instruction of the Roman Missal, §78
The priest does not pray this prayer in isolation, but in union with the entire congregation. The priest proclaims the text of this prayer, and the community members confess in their hearts the great deeds of God that they have experienced throughout the past week. From these numerous and diverse events of the week, the assembly is called to bless God. The community thus unites in offering the sacrifice at this celebration.
‘Grant your Church, O Lord, we pray, the gifts of unity and peace, whose signs are to be seen in mystery in the offerings we here present.’
—prayer over the offerings