Official Translation
Reading 1 – Hebrews 4.12-16
The word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow,
and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight,
but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him
to whom we must give an account.
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold tightly to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities,
but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are, though without sin.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.
Responsorial – Psalm 19.8, 9, 10, 15 Resp. John 6:63b
R. Your words, O Lord, are Spirit and life.
The law of the Lord is perfect,
restoring the soul.
The covenant of the Lord is sure,
making the simple wise.
R. Your words, O Lord, are Spirit and life.
The precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart.
The command of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes.
R. Your words, O Lord, are Spirit and life.
The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever.
The ordinances of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether.
R. Your words, O Lord, are Spirit and life.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in your sight,
O Lord, my rock, and my redeemer.
R. Your words, O Lord, are Spirit and life.
Gospel – Mark 2.13-17
Jesus went out again by the seaside.
All the multitude came to him,
and he taught them.
As he passed by, he saw
Levi, the son of Alphaeus,
sitting at the tax office, and he said to him,
“Follow me”, and he arose and followed him.
As he was reclining at the table in his house,
many tax collectors and sinners
sat down with Jesus and his disciples,
for there were many and they followed him.
The scribes and the Pharisees,
when they saw that he was eating with
the sinners and tax collectors,
said to his disciples, “Why is it that
he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
When Jesus heard it, he said to them,
“Those who are healthy have no need for a doctor,
but those who are sick do.
I came not to call the righteous but sinners.”
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Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (I)
Official Translation
Reading 1 - Hebrews 4.1-5, 11
Let us fear therefore, lest while this promise of entering into his rest continues,
any of you should seem to have fallen short.
For indeed we have had the Good News preached to us, even as they also did,
but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united with faith by those who heard.
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest.”
Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day,
“God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;
and in that other place once again, “They will not enter into my rest.”
Let us therefore strive to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Responsorial – Psalm 78.3+4bc, 6c-7, 8 Resp. 7b
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
What we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us,
we will not hide from their children but tell to the generation to come
the praises of the Lord, his strength.
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
That they too should arise and tell their children,
that they might put their hope in God,
and not forget God’s deeds,
but keep his commandments.
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
And might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that did not make their hearts steadfast
whose spirit was not entirely with God.
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
Gospel – Mark 2.1-12
When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days,
it was heard that he was in the house.
Immediately many were gathered together,
so that there was no more room,
not even around the door;
and he spoke the word to them.
And a paralyzed person came to him, carried by four people.
When they could not come near to him because of the crowd,
they removed the roof where he was.
When they had broken it up,
they let down the mat that the paralyzed one was lying on.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralyzed one,
“Child, your sins are forgiven you.”
But there were some of the scribes sitting there,
and reasoning in their hearts,
“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that?
Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit
that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them,
“Why do you think such things in your hearts?
Which is easier, to tell the paralyzed one, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’
or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed, and walk?’
But that you may know that the Son of Man
has authority on earth to forgive sins”—
he said to the paralyzed one—
“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
He arose, and immediately took up the mat,
and went out in front of them all;
so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying,
“We never saw anything like this!”
Reading 1 - Hebrews 4.1-5, 11
Let us fear therefore, lest while this promise of entering into his rest continues,
any of you should seem to have fallen short.
For indeed we have had the Good News preached to us, even as they also did,
but the word they heard did not profit them, because it was not united with faith by those who heard.
For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest.”
Although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day,
“God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;
and in that other place once again, “They will not enter into my rest.”
Let us therefore strive to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Responsorial – Psalm 78.3+4bc, 6c-7, 8 Resp. 7b
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
What we have heard and known,
and our fathers have told us,
we will not hide from their children but tell to the generation to come
the praises of the Lord, his strength.
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
That they too should arise and tell their children,
that they might put their hope in God,
and not forget God’s deeds,
but keep his commandments.
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
And might not be as their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that did not make their hearts steadfast
whose spirit was not entirely with God.
R. Do not forget God’s deeds.
Gospel – Mark 2.1-12
When Jesus returned to Capernaum after some days,
it was heard that he was in the house.
Immediately many were gathered together,
so that there was no more room,
not even around the door;
and he spoke the word to them.
And a paralyzed person came to him, carried by four people.
When they could not come near to him because of the crowd,
they removed the roof where he was.
When they had broken it up,
they let down the mat that the paralyzed one was lying on.
Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralyzed one,
“Child, your sins are forgiven you.”
But there were some of the scribes sitting there,
and reasoning in their hearts,
“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that?
Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit
that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them,
“Why do you think such things in your hearts?
Which is easier, to tell the paralyzed one, ‘Your sins are forgiven;’
or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed, and walk?’
But that you may know that the Son of Man
has authority on earth to forgive sins”—
he said to the paralyzed one—
“I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house.”
He arose, and immediately took up the mat,
and went out in front of them all;
so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying,
“We never saw anything like this!”
Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 53.10-11
It pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer.
If he makes his soul an offering for sin,
he will see his descendants in a long life,
and the Lord’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light and be satisfied.
Through his suffering, my righteous servant will justify many
and he will bear their iniquities.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.4-5, 18-19, 20+22 Resp. 22
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Our soul has waited for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord,
since we have hoped in you.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.14-16
Brothers and sisters:
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold tightly to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities,
but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are, though without sin.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.
Gospel – Mark 10.35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”
He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit,
one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”
But Jesus said to them,
“You do not know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the chalice that I drink,
and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to him, “We are able.”
Jesus said to them,
“You shall indeed drink the chalice that I drink,
and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give,
but for whom it has been prepared.”
When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
Jesus summoned them, and said to them,
“You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority over them.
But it shall not be so among you,
but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be the slave of all.
For the Son of Human did not come to be served,
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 53.10-11
It pleased the Lord to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer.
If he makes his soul an offering for sin,
he will see his descendants in a long life,
and the Lord’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light and be satisfied.
Through his suffering, my righteous servant will justify many
and he will bear their iniquities.
Responsorial – Psalm 33.4-5, 18-19, 20+22 Resp. 22
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
The word of the Lord is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of the Lord.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Our soul has waited for the Lord.
He is our help and our shield.
Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord,
since we have hoped in you.
R. Let your loving kindness be on us, O Lord, since we have hoped in you.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.14-16
Brothers and sisters:
Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold tightly to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities,
but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are, though without sin.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy, and find grace for help in time of need.
Gospel – Mark 10.35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to Jesus, saying,
“Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”
He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit,
one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”
But Jesus said to them,
“You do not know what you are asking.
Are you able to drink the chalice that I drink,
and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
They said to him, “We are able.”
Jesus said to them,
“You shall indeed drink the chalice that I drink,
and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give,
but for whom it has been prepared.”
When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
Jesus summoned them, and said to them,
“You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles
lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority over them.
But it shall not be so among you,
but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be the slave of all.
For the Son of Human did not come to be served,
but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Wisdom 7.7-11
I prayed and understanding was given me.
I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me.
And I preferred her to scepter and throne,
and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Nor did I compare her to any precious stone,
for all gold in comparison to her, is as a little sand,
and silver in respect to her shall be counted as clay.
I loved her above health and beauty,
and chose to have her instead of light:
for her light cannot be put out.
Now all good things came to me together with her,
and innumerable riches through her hands.
Responsorial – Psalm 90.12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Resp. 14
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
So teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Let your work appear to your servants;
your glory to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.12-13
Brothers and sisters:
The word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow,
and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight,
but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him
to whom we must give an account.
Gospel – Mark 10.17-30
As Jesus was going out on the way, someone ran to him and knelt before him,
and asked him, “Good Teacher,what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good if not one: God.
You know the commandments:
‘Do not murder,’
‘Do not commit adultery,’
‘Do not steal,’
‘Do not give false testimony,’
‘Do not defraud,’
‘Honor your father and mother.’”
He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him,
“One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow me.”
But his face darkened at that saying, and he went away sorrowful,
for he was one who had great possessions.
Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples,
“How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!”
The disciples were amazed at his words.
But Jesus answered again,
“Children, how hard it is to enter into the Kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle
than for someone rich to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”
Jesus, looking at them, said,
“With humans it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
Peter began to tell Jesus “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”
Jesus said, “Amen I tell you, there is no one
who has left house, or brothers, or sisters,
or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land,
for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel,
but they will receive one hundred times more now in this time:
houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions,
and in the age to come eternal life.
Reading 1 – Wisdom 7.7-11
I prayed and understanding was given me.
I called upon God, and the spirit of wisdom came upon me.
And I preferred her to scepter and throne,
and esteemed riches nothing in comparison of her.
Nor did I compare her to any precious stone,
for all gold in comparison to her, is as a little sand,
and silver in respect to her shall be counted as clay.
I loved her above health and beauty,
and chose to have her instead of light:
for her light cannot be put out.
Now all good things came to me together with her,
and innumerable riches through her hands.
Responsorial – Psalm 90.12-13, 14-15, 16-17 Resp. 14
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
So teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O Lord! How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Let your work appear to your servants;
your glory to their children.
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.
R. Satisfy us with your loving kindness, O Lord, that we may rejoice.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.12-13
Brothers and sisters:
The word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword,
piercing even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow,
and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight,
but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him
to whom we must give an account.
Gospel – Mark 10.17-30
As Jesus was going out on the way, someone ran to him and knelt before him,
and asked him, “Good Teacher,what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good if not one: God.
You know the commandments:
‘Do not murder,’
‘Do not commit adultery,’
‘Do not steal,’
‘Do not give false testimony,’
‘Do not defraud,’
‘Honor your father and mother.’”
He said to him, “Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth.”
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him,
“One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor,
and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow me.”
But his face darkened at that saying, and he went away sorrowful,
for he was one who had great possessions.
Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples,
“How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!”
The disciples were amazed at his words.
But Jesus answered again,
“Children, how hard it is to enter into the Kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle
than for someone rich to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, “Then who can be saved?”
Jesus, looking at them, said,
“With humans it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God.”
Peter began to tell Jesus “Behold, we have left all, and have followed you.”
Jesus said, “Amen I tell you, there is no one
who has left house, or brothers, or sisters,
or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land,
for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel,
but they will receive one hundred times more now in this time:
houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions,
and in the age to come eternal life.
Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 52.13-53.12
Behold, my servant shall do well,
he shall be exalted and lifted up very high.
As many were astonished at him
(his appearance was marred more than any man,
and his form more than the sons of men),
so shall he startle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths at him:
for that which had not been told them shall they see;
and that which they had not heard shall they understand.
Who has believed our message?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of dry ground.
He has no good looks or majesty.
When we see him,
there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of suffering, acquainted with disease.
as one from whom men hide their faces;
and we did not respect him.
Yet he has borne our sickness,
and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued,
struck by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions.
He was crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
and by his wounds we are healed.
We, like sheep, have gone astray.
Everyone has turned to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed,
yet when he was afflicted he did not open his mouth.
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute,
so he did not open his mouth.
He was taken away by oppression and judgment;
and who would have considered his fate?
He was cut off out of the land of the living
and stricken for the disobedience of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked,
and with an evil man in his death;
although he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord to cruch him.
He has caused him to suffer.
Since he makes his soul an offering for sin,
he shall see his seed prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light and be satisfied.
My righteous servant
will justify many through his suffering;
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I give to him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the plunder with the strong;
because he poured out his soul to death,
and was numbered with the sinners;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the sinners.
Responsorial – Psalm 31.2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25 Resp. Luke 23.46
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
Into your hand I commend my spirit.
You redeem me, O Lord, God of truth.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Because of all my adversaries I have become
utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a fear to my acquaintances.
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
I am like a broken pot.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
But I trust in you, O Lord.
I said, “You are my God.”
My fate is in your hand: deliver me
from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Make your face to shine on your servant.
Save me in your loving kindness.
Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who hope in the Lord.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.14-16; 5.7-9
Brothers and sisters:
Having then a great high priest,
who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold tightly to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest
who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities,
but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are,
though without sin.
Let us therefore draw near
with boldness to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy,
and may find grace for help in time of need.
He, in the days of his flesh,
having offered up prayers and petitions
with strong crying and tears
to him who was able to save him from death,
and having been heard for his godly fear,
though he was a Son,
yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
Having been made perfect,
he became to all of those who obey him
the author of eternal salvation.
Gospel – John 18.1-19.42
Jesus went out with his disciples
across the Kidron valley,
where there was a garden,
into which he and his disciples entered.
Now Judas, who betrayed him,
also knew the place,
for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
Judas then, having taken a detachment
of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees,
came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
Jesus therefore,
knowing all the things that were happening to him,
went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I AM”
Judas also, who betrayed him,
was standing with them.
When therefore he said to them, “I AM”,
they went back and fell to the ground.
Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?”
They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus answered, “I told you that I AM.
If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”
that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke,
“Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
Then Simon Peter having a sword, drew it,
and struck the high priest’s servant,
and cut off his right ear.
The servant’s name was Malchus.
So Jesus said to Peter,
“Put the sword into its sheath.
The cup which the Father has given me,
shall I not surely drink it?”
So the detachment,
the commanding officer and the officers of the Jews,
seized Jesus and bound him,
and led him to Annas first,
for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year.
Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews
that it was expedient that one human
should perish for the people.
Simon Peter followed Jesus,
as did another disciple.
Now that disciple was known to the high priest,
and entered in with Jesus
into the court of the high priest;
but Peter was standing at the door outside.
So the other disciple,
who was known to the high priest,
went out and spoke to her who kept the door,
and brought in Peter.
Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter,
“Are you not also one of this human’s disciples?”
He said, “I am not.”
Now the servants and the officers were standing there,
having made a fire of coals, for it was cold.
They were warming themselves.
Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
Then the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples,
and about his teaching.
Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world.
I always taught in synagogues,
and in the temple, where the Jews always meet.
I said nothing in secret.
Why do you ask me?
Ask those who have heard me
what I said to them.
Behold, these know the things which I said.”
When he had said this,
one of the officers standing by
slapped Jesus with his hand, saying,
“Do you answer the high priest like that?”
Jesus answered him,
“If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil;
but if well, why do you beat me?”
Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself.
They said therefore to him,
“Are you not also one of his disciples?”
He denied it, and said, “I am not.”
One of the servants of the high priest,
being a relative of him
whose ear Peter had cut off, said,
“Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
Peter therefore denied it again,
and immediately the rooster crowed.
Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium.
It was early,
and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium,
that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
Pilate therefore went out to them, and said,
“What accusation do you bring against this human?”
They answered and said to him,
“If that one were not an evildoer,
we would not have delivered him up to you.”
Pilate therefore said to them,
“Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
So the Jews said to him,
“It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,”
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled,
which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium,
called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
Jesus answered him,
“Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”
Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I?
Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me.
What have you done?”
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world.
If my Kingdom were of this world,
then my servants would fight,
so that I would not be delivered to the Jews.
But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king.
For this reason I have been born,
and for this reason I have come into the world,
that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
When he had said this,
he went out again to the Jews, and said to them,
“I find no basis for a charge against him.
But you have a custom,
that I should release someone to you at the Passover.
Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
Then they all shouted again, saying,
“Not this one but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.
The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown
and put it on his head
and dressed him in a purple garment.
They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
and they kept slapping him.
Then Pilate went out again, and said to them,
“Behold, I bring him out to you,
that you may know
that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
So Jesus came out,
wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.
Pilate said to them, “Behold, the human!”
When therefore
the chief priests and the officers saw him,
they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them,
“Take him yourselves and crucify him,
for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
The Jews answered him,
“We have a law and by our law he ought to die,
because he made himself the Son of God.”
So when Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus,
“Where are you from?”
But Jesus gave him no answer.
Pilate therefore said to him,
“Do you not speak to me?
Do you not know that I have power to release you,
and have power to crucify you?”
Jesus answered,
“You would have no power at all against me,
unless it were given to you from above.
Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
At this, Pilate was seeking to release him,
but the Jews cried out, saying,
“If you release this one, you are not a friend of Caesar!
Everyone who makes himself a king contradict Caesar!”
So when Pilate heard these words,
he brought Jesus out,
and sat down on the judgment seat
at a place called “The Pavement” but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.
He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
They cried out, “Away! Away! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
So then he delivered him to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus and led him away.
He went out, bearing his cross,
to the place called “The Place of a Skull”,
which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
where they crucified him,
and with him two others,
one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.
There was written,
“JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Therefore many of the Jews read this title,
for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city;
and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate,
“Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’
but, ‘he said, I am King of the Jews.’”
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments and made four parts,
for each soldier a part; and also the cloak.
Now the cloak was seamless,
woven from the top throughout.
Then they said to one another,
“Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it
to decide whose it will be,”
that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
“They parted my garments among them.
For my cloak they cast lots.”
Therefore the soldiers did these things.
But there were standing by the cross of Jesus
his mother and his mother’s sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
So when Jesus saw
his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there,
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!”
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!”
From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished,
that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there;
so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop,
and held it at his mouth.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
“It is finished.”
He bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
So the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day,
so that the bodies would not remain on the crosses
on the Sabbath for that Sabbath was a special one,
asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken,
and that they might be taken away.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other who was crucified with him;
but when they came to Jesus,
and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,
and immediately blood and water came out.
He who has seen has testified and his testimony is true.
He knows that he tells the truth that you may believe.
For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
“A bone of him will not be broken.”
Again another Scripture says,
“They will look on him whom they pierced.”
After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea,
being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews,
asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body.
Pilate gave him permission.
He came therefore and took away his body.
Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night,
also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about one hundred pounds.
So they took Jesus’ body,
and bound it in linen cloths with the spices,
as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
Now in the place where he was crucified
there was a garden.
In the garden was a new tomb
in which no man had ever yet been laid.
Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day,
since the tomb was near at hand,
they laid Jesus there.
Reading 1 – Isaiah 52.13-53.12
Behold, my servant shall do well,
he shall be exalted and lifted up very high.
As many were astonished at him
(his appearance was marred more than any man,
and his form more than the sons of men),
so shall he startle many nations;
kings shall shut their mouths at him:
for that which had not been told them shall they see;
and that which they had not heard shall they understand.
Who has believed our message?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of dry ground.
He has no good looks or majesty.
When we see him,
there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of suffering, acquainted with disease.
as one from whom men hide their faces;
and we did not respect him.
Yet he has borne our sickness,
and carried our suffering;
yet we considered him plagued,
struck by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions.
He was crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought our peace was on him;
and by his wounds we are healed.
We, like sheep, have gone astray.
Everyone has turned to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed,
yet when he was afflicted he did not open his mouth.
As a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute,
so he did not open his mouth.
He was taken away by oppression and judgment;
and who would have considered his fate?
He was cut off out of the land of the living
and stricken for the disobedience of my people.
They made his grave with the wicked,
and with an evil man in his death;
although he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord to cruch him.
He has caused him to suffer.
Since he makes his soul an offering for sin,
he shall see his seed prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
After the suffering of his soul,
he will see the light and be satisfied.
My righteous servant
will justify many through his suffering;
and he will bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I give to him a portion with the great,
and he shall divide the plunder with the strong;
because he poured out his soul to death,
and was numbered with the sinners;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the sinners.
Responsorial – Psalm 31.2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25 Resp. Luke 23.46
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Let me never be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness.
Into your hand I commend my spirit.
You redeem me, O Lord, God of truth.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Because of all my adversaries I have become
utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a fear to my acquaintances.
Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.
I am like a broken pot.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
But I trust in you, O Lord.
I said, “You are my God.”
My fate is in your hand: deliver me
from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Make your face to shine on your servant.
Save me in your loving kindness.
Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who hope in the Lord.
R. Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
Reading 2 – Hebrews 4.14-16; 5.7-9
Brothers and sisters:
Having then a great high priest,
who has passed through the heavens,
Jesus, the Son of God,
let us hold tightly to our confession.
For we do not have a high priest
who is unable to sympathize with our infirmities,
but one who has been in all ways tempted like we are,
though without sin.
Let us therefore draw near
with boldness to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy,
and may find grace for help in time of need.
He, in the days of his flesh,
having offered up prayers and petitions
with strong crying and tears
to him who was able to save him from death,
and having been heard for his godly fear,
though he was a Son,
yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.
Having been made perfect,
he became to all of those who obey him
the author of eternal salvation.
Gospel – John 18.1-19.42
Jesus went out with his disciples
across the Kidron valley,
where there was a garden,
into which he and his disciples entered.
Now Judas, who betrayed him,
also knew the place,
for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
Judas then, having taken a detachment
of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees,
came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
Jesus therefore,
knowing all the things that were happening to him,
went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”
They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus said to them, “I AM”
Judas also, who betrayed him,
was standing with them.
When therefore he said to them, “I AM”,
they went back and fell to the ground.
Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?”
They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”
Jesus answered, “I told you that I AM.
If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”
that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke,
“Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”
Then Simon Peter having a sword, drew it,
and struck the high priest’s servant,
and cut off his right ear.
The servant’s name was Malchus.
So Jesus said to Peter,
“Put the sword into its sheath.
The cup which the Father has given me,
shall I not surely drink it?”
So the detachment,
the commanding officer and the officers of the Jews,
seized Jesus and bound him,
and led him to Annas first,
for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year.
Now it was Caiaphas who advised the Jews
that it was expedient that one human
should perish for the people.
Simon Peter followed Jesus,
as did another disciple.
Now that disciple was known to the high priest,
and entered in with Jesus
into the court of the high priest;
but Peter was standing at the door outside.
So the other disciple,
who was known to the high priest,
went out and spoke to her who kept the door,
and brought in Peter.
Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter,
“Are you not also one of this human’s disciples?”
He said, “I am not.”
Now the servants and the officers were standing there,
having made a fire of coals, for it was cold.
They were warming themselves.
Peter was with them, standing and warming himself.
Then the high priest asked Jesus about his disciples,
and about his teaching.
Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world.
I always taught in synagogues,
and in the temple, where the Jews always meet.
I said nothing in secret.
Why do you ask me?
Ask those who have heard me
what I said to them.
Behold, these know the things which I said.”
When he had said this,
one of the officers standing by
slapped Jesus with his hand, saying,
“Do you answer the high priest like that?”
Jesus answered him,
“If I have spoken evil, testify of the evil;
but if well, why do you beat me?”
Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, the high priest.
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself.
They said therefore to him,
“Are you not also one of his disciples?”
He denied it, and said, “I am not.”
One of the servants of the high priest,
being a relative of him
whose ear Peter had cut off, said,
“Did I not see you in the garden with him?”
Peter therefore denied it again,
and immediately the rooster crowed.
Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium.
It was early,
and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium,
that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
Pilate therefore went out to them, and said,
“What accusation do you bring against this human?”
They answered and said to him,
“If that one were not an evildoer,
we would not have delivered him up to you.”
Pilate therefore said to them,
“Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.”
So the Jews said to him,
“It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,”
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled,
which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium,
called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
Jesus answered him,
“Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”
Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I?
Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me.
What have you done?”
Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world.
If my Kingdom were of this world,
then my servants would fight,
so that I would not be delivered to the Jews.
But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?”
Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king.
For this reason I have been born,
and for this reason I have come into the world,
that I should testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”
Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”
When he had said this,
he went out again to the Jews, and said to them,
“I find no basis for a charge against him.
But you have a custom,
that I should release someone to you at the Passover.
Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
Then they all shouted again, saying,
“Not this one but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
So Pilate then took Jesus and flogged him.
The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown
and put it on his head
and dressed him in a purple garment.
They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
and they kept slapping him.
Then Pilate went out again, and said to them,
“Behold, I bring him out to you,
that you may know
that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
So Jesus came out,
wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment.
Pilate said to them, “Behold, the human!”
When therefore
the chief priests and the officers saw him,
they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify!”
Pilate said to them,
“Take him yourselves and crucify him,
for I find no basis for a charge against him.”
The Jews answered him,
“We have a law and by our law he ought to die,
because he made himself the Son of God.”
So when Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus,
“Where are you from?”
But Jesus gave him no answer.
Pilate therefore said to him,
“Do you not speak to me?
Do you not know that I have power to release you,
and have power to crucify you?”
Jesus answered,
“You would have no power at all against me,
unless it were given to you from above.
Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
At this, Pilate was seeking to release him,
but the Jews cried out, saying,
“If you release this one, you are not a friend of Caesar!
Everyone who makes himself a king contradict Caesar!”
So when Pilate heard these words,
he brought Jesus out,
and sat down on the judgment seat
at a place called “The Pavement” but in Hebrew, “Gabbatha.”
Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour.
He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
They cried out, “Away! Away! Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?”
The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”
So then he delivered him to them to be crucified.
So they took Jesus and led him away.
He went out, bearing his cross,
to the place called “The Place of a Skull”,
which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
where they crucified him,
and with him two others,
one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross.
There was written,
“JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
Therefore many of the Jews read this title,
for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city;
and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate,
“Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’
but, ‘he said, I am King of the Jews.’”
Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments and made four parts,
for each soldier a part; and also the cloak.
Now the cloak was seamless,
woven from the top throughout.
Then they said to one another,
“Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it
to decide whose it will be,”
that the Scripture might be fulfilled, which says,
“They parted my garments among them.
For my cloak they cast lots.”
Therefore the soldiers did these things.
But there were standing by the cross of Jesus
his mother and his mother’s sister,
Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
So when Jesus saw
his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there,
he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son!”
Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!”
From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished,
that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there;
so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop,
and held it at his mouth.
When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said,
“It is finished.”
He bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
So the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day,
so that the bodies would not remain on the crosses
on the Sabbath for that Sabbath was a special one,
asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken,
and that they might be taken away.
So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first,
and of the other who was crucified with him;
but when they came to Jesus,
and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,
and immediately blood and water came out.
He who has seen has testified and his testimony is true.
He knows that he tells the truth that you may believe.
For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
“A bone of him will not be broken.”
Again another Scripture says,
“They will look on him whom they pierced.”
After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea,
being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews,
asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body.
Pilate gave him permission.
He came therefore and took away his body.
Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night,
also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,
about one hundred pounds.
So they took Jesus’ body,
and bound it in linen cloths with the spices,
as the custom of the Jews is to bury.
Now in the place where he was crucified
there was a garden.
In the garden was a new tomb
in which no man had ever yet been laid.
Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day,
since the tomb was near at hand,
they laid Jesus there.
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