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.
Mass Readings
Holy Thursday: Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Exodus 12.1-8, 11-14
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt, saying,
“This month shall be to you
the beginning of months.
It shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying,
‘On the tenth day of this month,
they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to their fathers’ houses,
one lamb per household;
and if the household is too little for a lamb,
then he and his neighbor next to his house
shall take one according to the number of the souls;
according to what everyone can eat
you shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without defect, a year old male.
You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats:
and you shall keep it
until the fourteenth day of the same month;
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it at evening.
They shall take some of the blood,
and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel,
on the houses in which they shall eat it.
They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire,
They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
This is how you shall eat it:
with your belt on your waist,
your shoes on your feet,
and your staff in your hand.
You shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s Passover.
For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night
and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and animal.
Against all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
The blood shall be to you
a token on the houses where you are:
and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and there shall be no plague
on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be to you a memorial,
and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord:
throughout your generations
you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.’”
Responsorial – Psalm 116.12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18 Resp. 1 Cor 10:16
R. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 11.23-26
Brothers and sisters:
I received from the Lord
what I also delivered to you:
that the Lord Jesus
on the night in which he was betrayed
took bread.
When he had given thanks,
he broke it and said,
“This is my body, which is for you.
Do this in memory of me.”
In the same way
he also took the cup, after supper, saying,
“This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in memory of me.”
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Gospel – John 13.1-15
Before the feast of the Passover,
Jesus, knowing that his time had come
when he would depart from this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world,
he loved them to the end.
During supper,
the devil having already put
into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things into his hands,
and that he came from God and was going to God,
arose from supper and laid aside his outer garments.
He took a towel and wrapped it around his waist.
Then he poured water into the basin
and began to wash the disciples’ feet
and to wipe them with the towel
that was wrapped around him.
Then he came to Simon Peter
who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”
Jesus answered him,
“You do not know what I am doing now,
but you will understand later.”
Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you,
you have no part with me.”
Simon Peter said to him,
“Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head!”
Jesus said to him,
“Someone who has bathed
only needs to have his feet washed,
and is completely clean.
You are clean, but not all of you.”
For he knew him who would betray him,
therefore he said, “You are not all clean.”
So when he had washed their feet,
he put his outer garment back on,
and sat down again and said to them,
“Do you know what I have done to you?
You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’
You say so correctly, for so I am.
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
For I have given you an example,
that you also should do as I have done for you.
Reading 1 – Exodus 12.1-8, 11-14
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt, saying,
“This month shall be to you
the beginning of months.
It shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying,
‘On the tenth day of this month,
they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to their fathers’ houses,
one lamb per household;
and if the household is too little for a lamb,
then he and his neighbor next to his house
shall take one according to the number of the souls;
according to what everyone can eat
you shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without defect, a year old male.
You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats:
and you shall keep it
until the fourteenth day of the same month;
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it at evening.
They shall take some of the blood,
and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel,
on the houses in which they shall eat it.
They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire,
They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
This is how you shall eat it:
with your belt on your waist,
your shoes on your feet,
and your staff in your hand.
You shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s Passover.
For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night
and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and animal.
Against all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.
The blood shall be to you
a token on the houses where you are:
and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and there shall be no plague
on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
This day shall be to you a memorial,
and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord:
throughout your generations
you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.’”
Responsorial – Psalm 116.12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18 Resp. 1 Cor 10:16
R. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. The cup of blessing is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
Reading 2 – 1 Corinthians 11.23-26
Brothers and sisters:
I received from the Lord
what I also delivered to you:
that the Lord Jesus
on the night in which he was betrayed
took bread.
When he had given thanks,
he broke it and said,
“This is my body, which is for you.
Do this in memory of me.”
In the same way
he also took the cup, after supper, saying,
“This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in memory of me.”
For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Gospel – John 13.1-15
Before the feast of the Passover,
Jesus, knowing that his time had come
when he would depart from this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world,
he loved them to the end.
During supper,
the devil having already put
into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things into his hands,
and that he came from God and was going to God,
arose from supper and laid aside his outer garments.
He took a towel and wrapped it around his waist.
Then he poured water into the basin
and began to wash the disciples’ feet
and to wipe them with the towel
that was wrapped around him.
Then he came to Simon Peter
who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?”
Jesus answered him,
“You do not know what I am doing now,
but you will understand later.”
Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you,
you have no part with me.”
Simon Peter said to him,
“Lord, not my feet only,
but also my hands and my head!”
Jesus said to him,
“Someone who has bathed
only needs to have his feet washed,
and is completely clean.
You are clean, but not all of you.”
For he knew him who would betray him,
therefore he said, “You are not all clean.”
So when he had washed their feet,
he put his outer garment back on,
and sat down again and said to them,
“Do you know what I have done to you?
You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’
You say so correctly, for so I am.
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
For I have given you an example,
that you also should do as I have done for you.
Chrism Mass
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 61.1-3a, 6a, 8b-9
The Spirit of the Lord is on me;
because the Lord has anointed me
to preach good news to the humble.
He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to those who are bound,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of vengeance by our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
to appoint to those who mourn in Zion,
to give to them a garland instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness;
You shall be named the priests of the Lord;
men will call you the ministers of our God.
I will give them their recompense in truth,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Their seed shall be known among the nations,
and their offspring among the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed which the Lord has blessed.”
Responsorial – Psalm 89.21-22, 25+27 Resp. 2
R. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever.
I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
With him my hand shall be established.
My arm will strengthen him.
R. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever.
My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
R. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever.
Reading 2 – Revelation 1.5-8
Grace to you and peace from Jesus Christ,
the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood;
who made us into a Kingdom, priests for his God and Father,
to him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him.
All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Indeed, Amen.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God,
“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Gospel – Luke 4.16-21
Jesus came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up.
He entered, as was his custom,
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day,
and stood up to read.
The book of the prophet Isaiah
was handed to him.
He opened the book
and found the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives,
recovering of sight to the blind,
to deliver those who are oppressed,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”
He closed the book,
gave it back to the attendant,
and sat down.
The eyes of all in the synagogue
were fastened on him.
He began to tell them,
“Today, this Scripture
has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 61.1-3a, 6a, 8b-9
The Spirit of the Lord is on me;
because the Lord has anointed me
to preach good news to the humble.
He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to those who are bound,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of vengeance by our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
to appoint to those who mourn in Zion,
to give to them a garland instead of ashes,
the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of the spirit of heaviness;
You shall be named the priests of the Lord;
men will call you the ministers of our God.
I will give them their recompense in truth,
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Their seed shall be known among the nations,
and their offspring among the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are the seed which the Lord has blessed.”
Responsorial – Psalm 89.21-22, 25+27 Resp. 2
R. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever.
I have found David, my servant.
I have anointed him with my holy oil,
With him my hand shall be established.
My arm will strengthen him.
R. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever.
My faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.
In my name, his horn will be exalted.
He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, and the rock of my salvation!’
R. I will sing of the loving kindness of the Lord forever.
Reading 2 – Revelation 1.5-8
Grace to you and peace from Jesus Christ,
the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
To him who loves us and washed us from our sins by his blood;
who made us into a Kingdom, priests for his God and Father,
to him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him.
All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Indeed, Amen.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God,
“who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Gospel – Luke 4.16-21
Jesus came to Nazareth,
where he had been brought up.
He entered, as was his custom,
into the synagogue on the Sabbath day,
and stood up to read.
The book of the prophet Isaiah
was handed to him.
He opened the book
and found the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives,
recovering of sight to the blind,
to deliver those who are oppressed,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”
He closed the book,
gave it back to the attendant,
and sat down.
The eyes of all in the synagogue
were fastened on him.
He began to tell them,
“Today, this Scripture
has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
Wednesday of the Holy Week
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 50.4-9a
The Lord God has given me
a well-trained tongue,
that I may know how
to sustain with words him who is weary.
Morning after morning,
he has opened my ear to hear,
and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away backward.
I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me;
therefore I have not been confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
He is near who justifies me;
who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord God will help me;
who shall condemn me?
Responsorial – Psalm 69.8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34 Resp. 14c
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.
Shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons,
Because zeal for your house consumes me,
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
for comforters, but I found none.
They also gave me gall for my food.
In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
I will praise the name of God with a song,
and I will magnify him with praise.
Let the poor see and rejoice:
seek God, and your soul shall live.
For the Lord has heard the poor:
and has not despised his prisoners.
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
Gospel – Matthew 26.14-25
One of the Twelve,
who was called Judas Iscariot,
went to the chief priests, and said,
“What are you willing to give me,
that I should betray him to you?”
They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Now on the first day of unleavened bread,
the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him,
“Where do you want us
to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him,
‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand.
I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”
The disciples did as Jesus commanded them,
and they prepared the Passover.
Now when evening had come,
he was reclining at the table with the Twelve.
As they were eating, he said,
“Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
They were exceedingly sorrowful,
and each began to ask him, “It is not I, Lord, is it?”
He answered, “One who has dipped his hand with me in the dish,
Is the one who will betray me.
The Son of Human goes,
even as it is written of him,
but woe to that human through whom
the Son of Human is betrayed!
It would be better for that human
if he had not been born.”
Judas, who betrayed him, answered,
“It is not I, Rabbi, is it?”
He said to him, “So you said.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 50.4-9a
The Lord God has given me
a well-trained tongue,
that I may know how
to sustain with words him who is weary.
Morning after morning,
he has opened my ear to hear,
and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away backward.
I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me;
therefore I have not been confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
He is near who justifies me;
who will bring charges against me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord God will help me;
who shall condemn me?
Responsorial – Psalm 69.8-10, 21-22, 31+33-34 Resp. 14c
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.
Shame has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons,
Because zeal for your house consumes me,
and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.
I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;
for comforters, but I found none.
They also gave me gall for my food.
In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
I will praise the name of God with a song,
and I will magnify him with praise.
Let the poor see and rejoice:
seek God, and your soul shall live.
For the Lord has heard the poor:
and has not despised his prisoners.
R. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me!
Gospel – Matthew 26.14-25
One of the Twelve,
who was called Judas Iscariot,
went to the chief priests, and said,
“What are you willing to give me,
that I should betray him to you?”
They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
From that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Now on the first day of unleavened bread,
the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him,
“Where do you want us
to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him,
‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand.
I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”
The disciples did as Jesus commanded them,
and they prepared the Passover.
Now when evening had come,
he was reclining at the table with the Twelve.
As they were eating, he said,
“Most certainly I tell you that one of you will betray me.”
They were exceedingly sorrowful,
and each began to ask him, “It is not I, Lord, is it?”
He answered, “One who has dipped his hand with me in the dish,
Is the one who will betray me.
The Son of Human goes,
even as it is written of him,
but woe to that human through whom
the Son of Human is betrayed!
It would be better for that human
if he had not been born.”
Judas, who betrayed him, answered,
“It is not I, Rabbi, is it?”
He said to him, “So you said.”
Tuesday of the Holy Week
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 49.1-6
Listen, islands, to me;
and listen, you far off peoples:
the Lord has called me from the womb;
from the inner place of my mother
has he called me by name:
and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me:
and he has made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver has he kept me close:
and he said to me,
“You are my servant; Israel,
in whom I will be glorified.”
Though I said, “I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing”,
yet surely the justice due to me is with the Lord,
and my reward with my God.
Now the Lord,
he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
says to bring Jacob again to him,
and that Israel be gathered to him.
I am honorable in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength.
Indeed, he says,
“It is too light a thing that
you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also make you a light to the nations,
that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
Responsorial – Psalm 71.1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15+17 Resp. 15ab
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Never let me be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.
Turn your ear to me, and save me.
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
Be to me a rock of refuge.
Give the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
For you are my hope, O the Lord,
my confidence from my youth.
I have relied on you from the womb.
You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb.
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
My mouth will tell about your righteousness,
and of your salvation all day,
God, you have taught me from my youth.
Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
R. I will sing of your salvation.
Gospel – John 13.21-33, 36-38
Reclining at table with his disciples,
Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified,
“Amen I say to you that one of you will betray me.”
The disciples looked at one another,
perplexed about whom he spoke.
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table,
leaning against Jesus’ breast.
Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him,
“Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”
He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast,
asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
Jesus therefore answered,
“It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread
when I have dipped it.”
So when he had dipped the piece of bread,
he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
After the piece of bread, Satan entered into him.
Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
For some thought, because Judas had the money box,
that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,”
or that he should give something to the poor.
Therefore having received that morsel,
he went out immediately. It was night.
When he had gone out, Jesus said,
“Now the Son of Man has been glorified,
and God has been glorified in him.
If God has been glorified in him,
God will also glorify him in himself,
and he will glorify him immediately.
Little children, I will be with you a little while longer.
You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I tell you:
where I am going, you cannot come.
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus answered, “Where I am going,
you cannot follow now,
but you will follow afterwards.”
Peter said to him,
“Lord, why can I not follow you now?
I will lay down my life for you.”
Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me?
Amen, amen, I say to you,
the rooster will not crow
until you have denied me three times.”
Reading 1 – Isaiah 49.1-6
Listen, islands, to me;
and listen, you far off peoples:
the Lord has called me from the womb;
from the inner place of my mother
has he called me by name:
and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword;
in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me:
and he has made me a polished arrow;
in his quiver has he kept me close:
and he said to me,
“You are my servant; Israel,
in whom I will be glorified.”
Though I said, “I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength in vain for nothing”,
yet surely the justice due to me is with the Lord,
and my reward with my God.
Now the Lord,
he who formed me from the womb to be his servant,
says to bring Jacob again to him,
and that Israel be gathered to him.
I am honorable in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength.
Indeed, he says,
“It is too light a thing that
you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
and to restore the preserved of Israel.
I will also make you a light to the nations,
that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
Responsorial – Psalm 71.1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15+17 Resp. 15ab
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Never let me be disappointed.
Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.
Turn your ear to me, and save me.
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
Be to me a rock of refuge.
Give the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
For you are my hope, O the Lord,
my confidence from my youth.
I have relied on you from the womb.
You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb.
R. My mouth will tell of your salvation.
My mouth will tell about your righteousness,
and of your salvation all day,
God, you have taught me from my youth.
Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
R. I will sing of your salvation.
Gospel – John 13.21-33, 36-38
Reclining at table with his disciples,
Jesus was troubled in spirit, and testified,
“Amen I say to you that one of you will betray me.”
The disciples looked at one another,
perplexed about whom he spoke.
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table,
leaning against Jesus’ breast.
Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him,
“Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.”
He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus’ breast,
asked him, “Lord, who is it?”
Jesus therefore answered,
“It is he to whom I will give this piece of bread
when I have dipped it.”
So when he had dipped the piece of bread,
he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.
After the piece of bread, Satan entered into him.
Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”
Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
For some thought, because Judas had the money box,
that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,”
or that he should give something to the poor.
Therefore having received that morsel,
he went out immediately. It was night.
When he had gone out, Jesus said,
“Now the Son of Man has been glorified,
and God has been glorified in him.
If God has been glorified in him,
God will also glorify him in himself,
and he will glorify him immediately.
Little children, I will be with you a little while longer.
You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I tell you:
where I am going, you cannot come.
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus answered, “Where I am going,
you cannot follow now,
but you will follow afterwards.”
Peter said to him,
“Lord, why can I not follow you now?
I will lay down my life for you.”
Jesus answered him, “Will you lay down your life for me?
Amen, amen, I say to you,
the rooster will not crow
until you have denied me three times.”
Monday of Holy Week
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 42.1-7
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold;
my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
I have put my Spirit on him.
He will bring justice to the nations.
He will not shout, nor raise his voice,
nor cause it to be heard in the street.
He will not break a bruised reed.
He will not quench a smoldering wick.
Until he has set justice in the earth,
the islands will wait for his law.”
Thus says the Lord God,
who created the heavens
and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth
and that which comes out of it,
who gives breath to its people
and spirit to those who walk in it:
“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness,
and will hold your hand.
I formed you and will make you
a covenant for the people,
a light for the nations;
to open the blind eyes,
to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Responsorial – Psalm 27.1, 2, 3, 13-14 Resp. 1a
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
When evildoers came at me
to eat up my flesh,
Indeed, my adversaries and my foes
stumbled and fell.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
Though an army should encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear.
Though war should rise up against me,
even then I will be confident.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
I believe that I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; be of good courage.
He will strengthen your heart. Wait for the LORD.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
Gospel – John 12.1-11
Six days before the Passover,
Jesus came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was, who had been dead,
whom he raised from the dead.
So they made him a supper there.
Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those
who sat at the table with him.
Mary, took a pound of ointment,
genuine nard, very expensive,
and anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped his feet with her hair.
The house was filled with
the fragrance of the ointment.
Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples,
who would betray him, said,
“Why not sell this ointment for three hundred denarii,
and give to the poor?”
Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor,
but because he was a thief, and having the money box,
used to steal what was put into it.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone.
She has kept this for the day of my burial.
For you always have the poor with you,
but you do not always have me.”
A large crowd of the Jews learned that he was there,
and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only,
but that they might see Lazarus also,
whom he had raised from the dead.
But the chief priests conspired
to put Lazarus to death also,
because on account of him
many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
Reading 1 – Isaiah 42.1-7
“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold;
my chosen, in whom my soul delights:
I have put my Spirit on him.
He will bring justice to the nations.
He will not shout, nor raise his voice,
nor cause it to be heard in the street.
He will not break a bruised reed.
He will not quench a smoldering wick.
Until he has set justice in the earth,
the islands will wait for his law.”
Thus says the Lord God,
who created the heavens
and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth
and that which comes out of it,
who gives breath to its people
and spirit to those who walk in it:
“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness,
and will hold your hand.
I formed you and will make you
a covenant for the people,
a light for the nations;
to open the blind eyes,
to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,
and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.
Responsorial – Psalm 27.1, 2, 3, 13-14 Resp. 1a
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the strength of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
When evildoers came at me
to eat up my flesh,
Indeed, my adversaries and my foes
stumbled and fell.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
Though an army should encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear.
Though war should rise up against me,
even then I will be confident.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
I believe that I will see the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; be of good courage.
He will strengthen your heart. Wait for the LORD.
R. The LORD is my light and my salvation.
Gospel – John 12.1-11
Six days before the Passover,
Jesus came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was, who had been dead,
whom he raised from the dead.
So they made him a supper there.
Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those
who sat at the table with him.
Mary, took a pound of ointment,
genuine nard, very expensive,
and anointed the feet of Jesus,
and wiped his feet with her hair.
The house was filled with
the fragrance of the ointment.
Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples,
who would betray him, said,
“Why not sell this ointment for three hundred denarii,
and give to the poor?”
Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor,
but because he was a thief, and having the money box,
used to steal what was put into it.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone.
She has kept this for the day of my burial.
For you always have the poor with you,
but you do not always have me.”
A large crowd of the Jews learned that he was there,
and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only,
but that they might see Lazarus also,
whom he had raised from the dead.
But the chief priests conspired
to put Lazarus to death also,
because on account of him
many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
Passion Sunday (B)
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Isaiah 50.4-7
The Lord God has given me
a well-trained tongue,
that I may know how
to sustain with words him who is weary.
Morning after morning,
he has opened my ear to hear,
and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away backward.
I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me;
therefore I have not been confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
Responsorial – Psalm 22.8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 Resp. 2a
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
All those who see me mock me.
They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him.
Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
For dogs have surrounded me.
A company of evildoers have enclosed me.
They have pierced my hands and feet.
I can count all of my bones.
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
They divide my garments among them.
They cast lots for my clothing.
But you, be not far off, O Lord.
You are my help: hasten to help me.
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
I will declare your name to my brothers.
Among the assembly, I will praise you.
You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Reading 2 – Philippians 2.6-11
Christ Jesus,
though existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,
being made in the likeness of humans.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death,
yes, the death of the cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him,
and gave to him the name which is above every name;
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father.
Gospel – Mark 14.1-15.47
It was now two days before the feast of
the Passover and the unleavened bread,
and the chief priests and the scribes
were seeking a way that
they might seize him by deception,
and kill him.
They said,
“Not during the feast,
because there might be a riot of the people.”
While he was at Bethany,
in the house of Simon the leper,
as he sat at the table,
a woman came with
an alabaster jar of ointment
of very expensive pure nard.
She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
But there were some who
were indignant among themselves, saying,
“Why has this ointment been wasted?
For this might have been sold
for more than three hundred denarii,
and given to the poor.”
They grumbled against her.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone.
Why do you trouble her?
She has done a good work for me.
For you always have the poor with you,
and whenever you want to,
you can do them good;
but you will not always have me.
She has done what she could.
She has anointed my body
beforehand for the burying.
Amen I say to you,
wherever this Gospel may be preached
throughout the whole world,
what this woman has done
will also be spoken of
in memory of her.”
Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve,
went away to the chief priests,
that he might hand him over to them.
When they heard it, they were glad,
and promised to give him money.
He was seeking a way to
conveniently hand him over.
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.
When it was evening he came with the twelve.
As they sat and were eating,
Jesus said, “Amen I say to you,
one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”
They began to be anxious,
and to ask him one by one,
“Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”
He answered them, “It is one of the Twelve,
One who dips with me in the dish.
For the Son of Human goes,
even as it is written about him,
but woe to the human by whom
the Son of Human is betrayed!
It would be better for that human
if he had not been conceived.”
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.
Jesus said to them,
“All of you will be scandalized
because of me tonight, for it is written,
‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered.’
However, after I am raised up,
I will go before you into Galilee.”
But Peter said to him,
“Although all will be scandalized, yet I will not.”
Jesus said to him, “Amen I say to you,
that you today, this very night,
before the rooster crows twice,
you will deny me three times.”
But he spoke all the more,
“Though I must die with you,
I will not deny you.”
They all said the same thing.
They came to a place which was named Gethsemane.
He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”
He took with him Peter, James, and John,
and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
He said to them,
“My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.
Stay here, and watch.”
He went forward a little, and fell on the ground,
and prayed that, if it were possible,
the hour might pass away from him.
He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you.
Please remove this cup from me.
However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,
“Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?
Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
Again he returned, and found them sleeping,
for their eyes were very heavy,
and they did not know what to answer him.
He came the third time, and said to them,
“Do you still sleep and take your rest? It is enough.
The hour has come.
Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed
into the hands of sinners.
Arise, let us be going.
Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.”
Immediately, while he was still speaking,
Judas, one of the twelve, came,
and with him a crowd with swords and clubs,
from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying,
“Whomever I will kiss, that is he.
Seize him, and lead him away safely.”
When he had come,
immediately he came to him, and said,
“Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.
They laid their hands on him, and seized him.
But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword,
and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
Jesus answered them,
“Have you come out, as against a robber,
with swords and clubs to seize me?
I was daily with you in the temple teaching,
and you did not arrest me.
But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”
They all left him, and fled.
A certain young man followed him,
having a linen cloth thrown around himself,
over his nakedness.
They grabbed him,
but he left the linen cloth,
and fled from them naked.
They led Jesus away to the high priest.
All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes
gathered together with him.
Peter had followed him from a distance,
until he came into the court of the high priest.
He was sitting with the officers,
and warming himself in the light of the fire.
Now the chief priests and the whole council
sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death,
and found none.
For many gave false testimony against him,
and their testimony did not agree.
Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,
“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple
that is made with hands,
and in three days I will build another
made without hands.’”
Even so, their testimony did not agree.
The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus,
“Have you no answer?
What is it which they testify against you?”
But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing.
Again the high priest asked him,
“Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
Jesus said, “I am.
You will see the Son of Human
sitting at the right hand of Power,
and coming with the clouds of the sky.”
The high priest tore his clothes, and said,
“What further need have we of witnesses?
You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?”
They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face,
and to beat him with fists,
and to tell him: “Prophesy!”
The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
As Peter was in the courtyard below,
one of the maids of the high priest came,
and seeing Peter warming himself,
she looked at him, and said,
“You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!”
But he denied it, saying,
“I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.”
He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by,
“This is one of them.”
But he again denied it.
After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter,
“You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean.”
But he began to curse, and to swear,
“I do not know this man of whom you speak!”
The rooster crowed the second time.
Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him,
“Before the rooster crows twice,
you will deny me three times.”
He broke down and wept.
Immediately in the morning the chief priests,
with the elders and scribes, and the whole council,
held a consultation, and bound Jesus,
and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
He answered, “So you say.”
The chief priests accused him of many things.
Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer?
See how many things they testify against you!”
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner,
whom they asked of him.
There was one called Barabbas,
bound with those who had made insurrection,
men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
The crowd, crying aloud,
began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
Pilate answered them, saying,
“Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
For he perceived that it was because of envy
that the chief priests had delivered him up.
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd,
that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
Pilate again asked them,
“What then should I do to him
whom you call the King of the Jews?”
They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?”
But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
Pilate, wishing to please the crowd,
released Barabbas to them,
and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
The soldiers led him away within the court,
which is the Praetorium;
and they called together the whole cohort.
They clothed him with purple,
and weaving a crown of thorns,
they put it on him.
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him,
and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him,
and put his own garments on him.
They led him out to crucify him.
They compelled one passerby, coming from the country,
Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus,
to go with them, that he might bear his cross.
They brought him to the place called Golgotha,
which is translated “The place of a skull.”
They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink,
but he did not take it.
Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them,
casting lots on them, what each should take.
It was the third hour, and they crucified him.
The superscription of his accusation was written over him:
“THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
With him they crucified two robbers;
one on his right hand, and one on his left.
Those who passed by blasphemed him,
wagging their heads, and saying,
“Ha! You who would destroy the temple,
and build it in three days,
save yourself, and come down from the cross!”
Likewise, also the chief priests
mocking among themselves with the scribes said,
“He saved others. He cannot save himself.
Let the Christ, the King of Israel,
now come down from the cross,
that we may see and believe him.”
Those who were crucified with him insulted him.
When the sixth hour had come,
there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated,
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Some of those who stood by,
when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed,
and gave it to him to drink, saying,
“Wait. Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
The veil of the temple was torn in two
from the top to the bottom.
When the centurion, who stood by opposite him,
saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said,
“Truly this human was the Son of God!”
There were also women watching from afar,
among whom were Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome;
They, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him;
and there were many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
When evening had now come,
because it was the Preparation Day,
that is, the day before the Sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member
who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came.
He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
Pilate marveled if he were already dead;
and summoning the centurion,
he asked him whether he had already died.
When he found out from the centurion,
he granted the body to Joseph.
He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down,
wound him in the linen cloth,
and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock.
He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
Reading 1 – Isaiah 50.4-7
The Lord God has given me
a well-trained tongue,
that I may know how
to sustain with words him who is weary.
Morning after morning,
he has opened my ear to hear,
and I was not rebellious,
neither turned away backward.
I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.
For the Lord God will help me;
therefore I have not been confounded:
therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be disappointed.
Responsorial – Psalm 22.8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 Resp. 2a
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
All those who see me mock me.
They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,
“He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him.
Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
For dogs have surrounded me.
A company of evildoers have enclosed me.
They have pierced my hands and feet.
I can count all of my bones.
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
They divide my garments among them.
They cast lots for my clothing.
But you, be not far off, O Lord.
You are my help: hasten to help me.
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
I will declare your name to my brothers.
Among the assembly, I will praise you.
You who fear the Lord, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!
Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
R. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Reading 2 – Philippians 2.6-11
Christ Jesus,
though existing in the form of God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave,
being made in the likeness of humans.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death,
yes, the death of the cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him,
and gave to him the name which is above every name;
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord
to the glory of God the Father.
Gospel – Mark 14.1-15.47
It was now two days before the feast of
the Passover and the unleavened bread,
and the chief priests and the scribes
were seeking a way that
they might seize him by deception,
and kill him.
They said,
“Not during the feast,
because there might be a riot of the people.”
While he was at Bethany,
in the house of Simon the leper,
as he sat at the table,
a woman came with
an alabaster jar of ointment
of very expensive pure nard.
She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.
But there were some who
were indignant among themselves, saying,
“Why has this ointment been wasted?
For this might have been sold
for more than three hundred denarii,
and given to the poor.”
They grumbled against her.
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone.
Why do you trouble her?
She has done a good work for me.
For you always have the poor with you,
and whenever you want to,
you can do them good;
but you will not always have me.
She has done what she could.
She has anointed my body
beforehand for the burying.
Amen I say to you,
wherever this Gospel may be preached
throughout the whole world,
what this woman has done
will also be spoken of
in memory of her.”
Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve,
went away to the chief priests,
that he might hand him over to them.
When they heard it, they were glad,
and promised to give him money.
He was seeking a way to
conveniently hand him over.
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.
When it was evening he came with the twelve.
As they sat and were eating,
Jesus said, “Amen I say to you,
one of you will betray me—he who eats with me.”
They began to be anxious,
and to ask him one by one,
“Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”
He answered them, “It is one of the Twelve,
One who dips with me in the dish.
For the Son of Human goes,
even as it is written about him,
but woe to the human by whom
the Son of Human is betrayed!
It would be better for that human
if he had not been conceived.”
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.
Jesus said to them,
“All of you will be scandalized
because of me tonight, for it is written,
‘I will strike the shepherd,
and the sheep will be scattered.’
However, after I am raised up,
I will go before you into Galilee.”
But Peter said to him,
“Although all will be scandalized, yet I will not.”
Jesus said to him, “Amen I say to you,
that you today, this very night,
before the rooster crows twice,
you will deny me three times.”
But he spoke all the more,
“Though I must die with you,
I will not deny you.”
They all said the same thing.
They came to a place which was named Gethsemane.
He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”
He took with him Peter, James, and John,
and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.
He said to them,
“My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.
Stay here, and watch.”
He went forward a little, and fell on the ground,
and prayed that, if it were possible,
the hour might pass away from him.
He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you.
Please remove this cup from me.
However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter,
“Simon, are you sleeping? Could you not watch one hour?
Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Again he went away, and prayed, saying the same words.
Again he returned, and found them sleeping,
for their eyes were very heavy,
and they did not know what to answer him.
He came the third time, and said to them,
“Do you still sleep and take your rest? It is enough.
The hour has come.
Behold, the Son of Man is betrayed
into the hands of sinners.
Arise, let us be going.
Behold, he who betrays me is at hand.”
Immediately, while he was still speaking,
Judas, one of the twelve, came,
and with him a crowd with swords and clubs,
from the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders.
Now he who betrayed him had given them a sign, saying,
“Whomever I will kiss, that is he.
Seize him, and lead him away safely.”
When he had come,
immediately he came to him, and said,
“Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.
They laid their hands on him, and seized him.
But a certain one of those who stood by drew his sword,
and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.
Jesus answered them,
“Have you come out, as against a robber,
with swords and clubs to seize me?
I was daily with you in the temple teaching,
and you did not arrest me.
But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”
They all left him, and fled.
A certain young man followed him,
having a linen cloth thrown around himself,
over his nakedness.
They grabbed him,
but he left the linen cloth,
and fled from them naked.
They led Jesus away to the high priest.
All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes
gathered together with him.
Peter had followed him from a distance,
until he came into the court of the high priest.
He was sitting with the officers,
and warming himself in the light of the fire.
Now the chief priests and the whole council
sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death,
and found none.
For many gave false testimony against him,
and their testimony did not agree.
Some stood up, and gave false testimony against him, saying,
“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple
that is made with hands,
and in three days I will build another
made without hands.’”
Even so, their testimony did not agree.
The high priest stood up in the middle, and asked Jesus,
“Have you no answer?
What is it which they testify against you?”
But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing.
Again the high priest asked him,
“Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”
Jesus said, “I am.
You will see the Son of Human
sitting at the right hand of Power,
and coming with the clouds of the sky.”
The high priest tore his clothes, and said,
“What further need have we of witnesses?
You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?”
They all condemned him to be worthy of death.
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face,
and to beat him with fists,
and to tell him: “Prophesy!”
The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
As Peter was in the courtyard below,
one of the maids of the high priest came,
and seeing Peter warming himself,
she looked at him, and said,
“You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus!”
But he denied it, saying,
“I neither know, nor understand what you are saying.”
He went out on the porch, and the rooster crowed.
The maid saw him, and began again to tell those who stood by,
“This is one of them.”
But he again denied it.
After a little while again those who stood by said to Peter,
“You truly are one of them, for you are a Galilean.”
But he began to curse, and to swear,
“I do not know this man of whom you speak!”
The rooster crowed the second time.
Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him,
“Before the rooster crows twice,
you will deny me three times.”
He broke down and wept.
Immediately in the morning the chief priests,
with the elders and scribes, and the whole council,
held a consultation, and bound Jesus,
and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?”
He answered, “So you say.”
The chief priests accused him of many things.
Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer?
See how many things they testify against you!”
But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner,
whom they asked of him.
There was one called Barabbas,
bound with those who had made insurrection,
men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
The crowd, crying aloud,
began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
Pilate answered them, saying,
“Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
For he perceived that it was because of envy
that the chief priests had delivered him up.
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd,
that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
Pilate again asked them,
“What then should I do to him
whom you call the King of the Jews?”
They cried out again, “Crucify him!”
Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?”
But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”
Pilate, wishing to please the crowd,
released Barabbas to them,
and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
The soldiers led him away within the court,
which is the Praetorium;
and they called together the whole cohort.
They clothed him with purple,
and weaving a crown of thorns,
they put it on him.
They began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him,
and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him,
and put his own garments on him.
They led him out to crucify him.
They compelled one passerby, coming from the country,
Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus,
to go with them, that he might bear his cross.
They brought him to the place called Golgotha,
which is translated “The place of a skull.”
They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink,
but he did not take it.
Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them,
casting lots on them, what each should take.
It was the third hour, and they crucified him.
The superscription of his accusation was written over him:
“THE KING OF THE JEWS.”
With him they crucified two robbers;
one on his right hand, and one on his left.
Those who passed by blasphemed him,
wagging their heads, and saying,
“Ha! You who would destroy the temple,
and build it in three days,
save yourself, and come down from the cross!”
Likewise, also the chief priests
mocking among themselves with the scribes said,
“He saved others. He cannot save himself.
Let the Christ, the King of Israel,
now come down from the cross,
that we may see and believe him.”
Those who were crucified with him insulted him.
When the sixth hour had come,
there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated,
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
Some of those who stood by,
when they heard it, said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.”
One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed,
and gave it to him to drink, saying,
“Wait. Let us see whether Elijah comes to take him down.”
Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and gave up the spirit.
The veil of the temple was torn in two
from the top to the bottom.
When the centurion, who stood by opposite him,
saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said,
“Truly this human was the Son of God!”
There were also women watching from afar,
among whom were Mary Magdalene,
and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome;
They, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him;
and there were many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.
When evening had now come,
because it was the Preparation Day,
that is, the day before the Sabbath,
Joseph of Arimathaea, a prominent council member
who also himself was looking for the Kingdom of God, came.
He boldly went in to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body.
Pilate marveled if he were already dead;
and summoning the centurion,
he asked him whether he had already died.
When he found out from the centurion,
he granted the body to Joseph.
He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down,
wound him in the linen cloth,
and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock.
He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was laid.
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