LEADER: Let us pray from the Second Reading. Our attitude must be Christ’s.
ALL: Who though he was in the form of God —
LEADER: Did not regard equality with God something to be grasped at.
ALL: But humbled himself accepting even death on a cross.
LEADER: Let us anoint one another with oil on the forehead, using Jesus’ sign — the cross. Pause.
LEADER: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
ALL: Let every voice confess Jesus Christ is Lord.