DAILY MASS READING

Holy Week

Sunday, April 01, 2012
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion

FIRST READING 

Isaiah 50: 4 – 7 

4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.5 The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, I turned not backward.6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.7 For the Lord GOD helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame;

PSALM RESPONSES
 

Psalms 22: 8 - 9, 17 - 20, 23 – 24

8 "He committed his cause to the LORD; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"9 Yet thou art he who took me from the womb; thou didst keep me safe upon my mother's breasts.

17 I can count all my bones -- they stare and gloat over me;18 they divide my garments among them, and for my raiment they cast lots.19 But thou, O LORD, be not far off! O thou my help, hasten to my aid!20 Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!

23 You who fear the LORD, praise him! all you sons of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel! 24 For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him

SECOND READING
 

Philippians 2: 6 – 11

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.8 And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name,10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father

GOSPEL
 

Mark 15: 1 – 39

1 And as soon as it was morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council held a consultation; and they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him to Pilate.2 And Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" And he answered him, "You have said so."3 And the chief priests accused him of many things.4 And Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you."5 But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate wondered.6 Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.7 And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barab'bas.8 And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he was wont to do for them.9 And he answered them, "Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?"10 For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barab'bas instead.12 And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?"13 And they cried out again, "Crucify him."14 And Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Cruciy him."15 So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barab'bas; and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.16 And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the praetorium); and they called together the whole battalion.17 And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and plaiting a crown of thorns they put it on him.18 And they began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"19 And they struck his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and they knelt down in homage to him.20 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak, and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.21 And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyre'ne, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.22 And they brought him to the place called Gol'gotha (which means the place of a skull).23 And they offered him wine mingled with myrrh; but he did not take it.24 And they crucified him, and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take.25 And it was the third hour, when they crucified him

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Devotion to the Divine Mercy

DAILY MASS READING

The Holy Bible

Saturday, March 31, 2012
Lenten Weekday  

FIRST READING 

Ezekiel 37: 21 – 28 

21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land;22 and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.23 They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.24 "My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.25 They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob; they and their children and their children's children shall dwell there for ever; and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.26I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.27 My dwelling place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.28 Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore." 

PSALM RESPONSES 

Jeremiah 31: 10 - 13 

10 "Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the coastlands afar off; say, `He who scattered Israel will gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.'11 For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion, and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the LORD, over the grain, the wine, and the oil, and over the young of the flock and the herd; their life shall be like a watered garden, and they shall languish no more.13 Then shall the maidens rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow. 

GOSPEL 

John 11: 45 – 56 

45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him;46 but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council, and said, "What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.48 If we let him go on thus, every one will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both our holy place and our nation."49 But one of them, Ca'iaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all;50 you do not understand that it is expedient for you that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish."51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation,52 and not for the nation only, but to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.53 So from that day on they took counsel how to put him to death.54 Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called E'phraim; and there he stayed with the disciples.55 Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.56 They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"

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 The Holy Eucharist

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