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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (26/5/10)
Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1
Beloved:
Realize
that you were ransomed from your futile conduct,
handed on
by your ancestors,
not with
perishable things like silver or gold
but with
the precious Blood of Christ
as of a
spotless unblemished Lamb.
He
was known before the foundation of the world
but
revealed in the final time for you,
who through him believe in God
who
raised him from the dead and gave him glory,
so that
your faith and hope are in God.
Since
you have purified yourselves
by
obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love,
love one
another intensely from a pure heart.
You
have been born anew,
not from
perishable but from imperishable seed,
through
the living and abiding word of God, for:
“All
flesh is like grass,
and all
its glory like the flower of the field;
the grass
withers,
and the
flower wilts;
but the
word of the Lord remains forever.”
This is the word that has
been proclaimed to you.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(12a) Praise the Lord,
Jerusalem.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Glorify
the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise
your God, O Zion.
For
he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has
blessed your children within you.
R.
Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
He
has granted peace in your borders;
with the
best of wheat he fills you.
He
sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly
runs his word!
R.
Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
He
has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his
statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He
has not done thus for any other nation;
his
ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.
R.
Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
The
disciples were on the way, going up to Jerusalem,
and Jesus
went ahead of them.
They
were amazed, and those who followed were afraid.
Taking
the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them
what was
going to happen to him.
“Behold,
we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man
will be
handed over to the chief priests and the scribes,
and they
will condemn him to death
and hand
him over to the Gentiles who will mock him,
spit upon
him, scourge him, and put him to death,
but after
three days he will rise.”
Then
James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
came to
Jesus and said to him,
“Teacher,
we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”
He
replied, “What do you wish me to do for you?”
They
answered him,
“Grant
that in your glory
we may
sit one at your right and the other at your left.”
Jesus
said to them, “You do not know what you are asking.
Can
you drink the chalice that I drink
or be
baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”
They
said to him, “We can.”
Jesus
said to them, “The chalice that I drink, you will drink,
and with
the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized;
but to
sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give
but is
for those for whom it has been prepared.”
When
the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John.
Jesus
summoned them and said to them,
“You
know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it
over them,
and their
great ones make their authority over them felt.
But
it shall not be so among you.
Rather,
whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant;
whoever
wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all.
For
the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve
and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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