Official Translation
Reading 1 – Exodus 24.3-8
Moses came and told the people
all the words of the Lord,
and all the ordinances;
and all the people answered
with one voice, and said,
“All the words which the Lord has spoken
will we do.”
Moses wrote all the words of the Lord,
and rose up early in the morning,
and built an altar
at the foot of the mountain,
and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
He sent young men of the children of Israel,
who offered burnt offerings
and sacrificed peace offerings of cattle to the Lord.
Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins,
and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
He took the book of the covenant
and read it in the hearing of the people,
and they said,
“All that the Lord has spoken
we will do and be obedient.”
Moses took the blood,
and sprinkled it on the people, and said,
“Look, this is the blood of the covenant,
which the Lord has made with you
concerning all these words.”
Responsorial – Psalm 116.12-13, 15-16, 17-18 Resp. 13
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
What will I give to the Lord
for all his benefits toward me?
I will take the cup of salvation,
and call on the name of the Lord.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
Precious in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his saints.
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid.
You have freed me from my chains.
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and will call on the name of the Lord.
I will pay my vows to the Lord,
yes, in the presence of all his people,
R. I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
Reading 2 – Hebrews 9.11-15
Brothers and sisters:
Christ having come as a high priest
of the good things to come,
through the greater and more perfect tabernacle,
not made with hands,
that is to say, not of this creation,
obtained eternal redemption
by entering once for all into the sanctuary,
not with the blood of goats and calves,
but with his own blood.
For if the blood of goats and bulls,
and the ashes of a heifer
sprinkling those who have been defiled,
sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:
how much more will the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit
offered himself without defect to God,
cleanse your conscience from dead works
to serve the living God?
For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant,
since a death has occurred
for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first covenant,
that those who have been called
may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Gospel – Mark 14.12-16, 22-26
On the first day of unleavened bread,
when they sacrificed the Passover,
his disciples asked him,
“Where do you want us to go
and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”
He sent two of his disciples, and said to them,
“Go into the city, and there you will
meet a human carrying a pitcher of water.
Follow them, and wherever they enter in,
tell the master of the house,
‘The Teacher says,
“Where is the guest room,
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’
He will himself show you a large upper room
furnished and ready. Get ready for us there.”
His disciples went out, and came into the city,
and found things as he had said to them,
and they prepared the Passover.
As they were eating, he took bread,
and when he had blessed,
he broke it, and gave to them, and said,
“Take; this is my body.”
He took a cup,
and when he had given thanks,
he gave it to them.
They all drank of it.
He said to them,
“This is my blood of the new covenant,
which is poured out for many.
Amen I say to you,
I will no longer drink of the fruit of the vine,
until that day when I drink it new
in the Kingdom of God.”
When they had sung a hymn,
they went out to the Mount of Olives.
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