Join us at Star of the Sea Parish as we commemorate the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima with prayer, sacred music, and reflection on Our Lady’s call to prayer, repentance, and peace.

6:00 PM — English Sung Mass, celebrated by Fr. Joseph Illo, Pastor of Star of the Sea Parish, with a presentation during Mass on “The Miracle of the Sun and the Message of Fatima.”

COLLECT
Deus, qui Genetricem Filii tui Matrem quoque nostram constituisti, concede nobis, ut, in paenitentia et oratione pro mundi salute perseverantes, in dies valeamus regnum Christi efficacius promovere.
O God, who chose the Mother of your Son to be our Mother also,
grant us that, persevering in penance and prayer
for the salvation of the world,
we may further more effectively each day the reign of Christ.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever.

FIRST READING          Isaiah 61:9-11
Thus says the LORD:
The descendants of my people shall be known among the nations,
and their offspring in the midst of the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
as a race the LORD has blessed.

I rejoice heartily in the LORD,
in my God is the joy of my soul;
For he has clothed me with a robe of salvation,
and wrapped me in a mantle of justice.
Like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem,
like a bride bedecked with her jewels.
As the earth brings forth its plants,
and a garden makes its growth spring up,
So will the Lord GOD make justice and praise
spring up before all the nations.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM          Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17
Audi, filia, et vide, et inclina aurem tuam.

R./ (11) Listen to me, daughter, see and bend your ear.
Hear, O daughter, and see; turn your ear,
forget your people and your father’s house.
So shall the king desire your beauty;
for he is your lord, and you must worship him.
R./ Listen to me, daughter, see and bend your ear.
All glorious is the king’s daughter as she enters;
her raiment is threaded with spun gold.
In embroidered apparel she is borne in to the king;
behind her the virgins of her train are brought to you.
R./ Listen to me, daughter, see and bend your ear.
They are borne in with gladness and joy;
they enter the palace of the king.
The place of your fathers your sons shall have;
you shall make them princes through all the land.
R./ Listen to me, daughter, see and bend your ear.

ALLELUIA
Blessed are you, holy Virgin Mary and worthy of all praise.
For the sun of justice, Christ our God, was born of you.

GOSPEL         Luke 1:39-47
Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”
And Mary said:
“My soul ­proclaims the greatness of the Lord;/ my spirit rejoices in God my savior.”