The following may be said by the President and people:
ALL:
Blessed Lord and Father, we have assembled in your Name
and in fellowship with one another. Enable us by your grace
to offer the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; to proclaim
and respond to your holy word. Teach us to pray for your
world and your Church. Grant that we, confessing our sins,
may worthily offer to you our souls and bodies as a living
sacrifice and eat and drink of your spiritual food in this Holy
Sacrament. Amen.
The following may also be said:
ALL:
Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known,
and from you no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our
hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may
perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your Holy Name,
through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Here may follow:
Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
In place of the above form, the Ninefold or the Threefold Kyrie
may be said or sung