MODERN (post 1969) ROMAN CATHOLIC MASS SCHEME

ENTRANCE HYMN (Entrance antiphon)

+BLESSING (Sprinkling of Holy Water on selected feasts with ANTIPHON) [rarely performed today]

PENETENTIAL RITE (three options)

LORD HAVE MERCY (except option C)

GLORY TO GOD

Opening Prayer

First Reading (normally Old Testament or Apocraphal)

Responsorial Psalm (antiphon with multiple Psalm verses)

Second Reading (normally an Epistle)

Gospel Acclamation (antiphon with single Psalm verse)

Gospel

Homily

PROFESSION OF FAITH (Creed)

General Intercessions (Prayers in petition form)

Offertory Hymn (or spoken responses and prayer over the gifts)

+EUCHARISTIC PREFACE

HOLY, HOLY, HOLY LORD

+EUCHARISTIC PRAYER (4 options)

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION (various options)

+DOXOLOGY

OUR FATHER

+PEACE

LAMB OF GOD

Communion antiphon (spoken antiphon at spoken mass only)

Distribution

Prayer of Thanksgiving

+BLESSING

DISMISSAL HYMN

KEY

Bold = Sung

Caps. = Ordinary

Lower case = Proper

+ = optional chanted