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Year C. (1/4/10)
Holy Thursday
Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper
Reading 1
The
LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
“This
month shall stand at the head of your calendar;
you shall
reckon it the first month of the year.
Tell
the whole community of Israel:
On
the tenth of this month every one of your families
must
procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.
If a
family is too small for a whole lamb,
it shall
join the nearest household in procuring one
and shall
share in the lamb
in
proportion to the number of persons who partake of it.
The
lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish.
You
may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
You
shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month,
and then,
with the whole assembly of Israel present,
it shall
be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
They
shall take some of its blood
and apply
it to the two doorposts and the lintel
of every
house in which they partake of the lamb.
That
same night they shall eat its roasted flesh
with
unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
“This
is how you are to eat it:
with your
loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand,
you shall
eat like those who are in flight.
It
is the Passover of the LORD.
For on
this same night I will go through Egypt,
striking
down every firstborn of the land, both man and beast,
and
executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt—I, the LORD!
But
the blood will mark the houses where you are.
Seeing
the blood, I will pass over you;
thus,
when I strike the land of Egypt,
no
destructive blow will come upon you.
“This
day shall be a memorial feast for you,
which all
your generations shall celebrate
with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution.”
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(cf. 1 Cor 10:16) Our
blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
How
shall I make a return to the LORD
for all
the good he has done for me?
The
cup of salvation I will take up,
and I
will call upon the name of the LORD.
R.
Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
Precious
in the eyes of the LORD
is the
death of his faithful ones.
I am
your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have
loosed my bonds.
R.
Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
To
you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and I
will call upon the name of the LORD.
My
vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
R. Our blessing-cup
is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
Reading 2
Brothers
and sisters:
I
received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,
that the
Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,
took
bread, and, after he had given thanks,
broke it
and said, “This is my body that is for you.
Do
this in remembrance of me.”
In
the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
“This
cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do
this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
For
as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Gospel
Before
the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come
to pass
from this world to the Father.
He
loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.
The
devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over.
So, during
supper,
fully
aware that the Father had put everything into his power
and that
he had come from God and was returning to God,
he rose
from supper and took off his outer garments.
He
took a towel and tied it around his waist.
Then
he poured water into a basin
and began
to wash the disciples’ feet
and dry
them with the towel around his waist.
He
came to Simon Peter, who said to him,
“Master,
are you going to wash my feet?”
Jesus
answered and said to him,
“What
I am doing, you do not understand now,
but you
will understand later.”
Peter
said to him, “You will never wash my feet.”
Jesus
answered him,
“Unless
I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.”
Simon
Peter said to him,
“Master,
then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.”
Jesus
said to him,
“Whoever
has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed,
for he is clean all over;
so you
are clean, but not all.”
For
he knew who would betray him;
for this
reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
So
when he had washed their feet
and put
his garments back on and reclined at table again,
he said
to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?
You
call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so,
for indeed I am.
If
I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet,
you ought
to wash one another’s feet.
I
have given you a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”
Chrism Mass
Reading 1
The
Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because
the LORD has anointed me;
He
has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly,
to heal
the brokenhearted,
To
proclaim liberty to the captives
and
release to the prisoners,
To
announce a year of favor from the LORD
and a day
of vindication by our God,
to
comfort all who mourn;
To
place on those who mourn in Zion
a diadem
instead of ashes,
To
give them oil of gladness in place of mourning,
a
glorious mantle instead of a listless spirit.
You
yourselves shall be named priests of the LORD,
ministers
of our God shall you be called.
I
will give them their recompense faithfully,
a lasting
covenant I will make with them.
Their
descendants shall be renowned among the nations,
and their
offspring among the peoples;
All
who see them shall acknowledge them
as a race the LORD has blessed.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(2) For ever I will sing
the goodness of the Lord.
“I
have found David, my servant;
with my
holy oil I have anointed him.
That
my hand may always be with him;
and that
my arm may make him strong.”
R.
For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
“My
faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him;
and
through my name shall his horn be exalted.
He
shall say of me, ‘You are my father,
my God,
the Rock, my savior!’“
R.
For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Reading 2
[Grace
to you and peace] from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,
the
firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth.
To
him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his Blood,
who has
made us into a Kingdom, priests for his God and Father,
to him be
glory and power forever and ever. Amen.
Behold,
he is coming amid the clouds,
and every
eye will see him,
even
those who pierced him.
All
the peoples of the earth will lament him.
Yes.
Amen.
“I
am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God,
“the
one who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Gospel
Jesus
came to Nazareth, where he had grown up,
and went
according to his custom
into the
synagogue on the sabbath day.
He
stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
He
unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to
bring glad tidings to the poor.
He
has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and
recovery of sight to the blind,
to
let the oppressed go free,
and
to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.
Rolling
up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently
at him.
He
said to them,
“Today this Scripture passage
is fulfilled in your hearing.”
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