Thursday, April 02,
2014
MAUNDY THURSDAY –
YEAR B
08:00 PM Multiligual Mass
First Reading
ISAIAH 61:1-3, 6, 8-9
1 The spirit of Lord
Yahweh is on me for Yahweh has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the news to
the afflicted, to soothe the broken-hearted,
2 to proclaim liberty
to captives, release to those in prison, to proclaim a year of favour from
Yahweh and a day of vengeance for our God, to comfort all who mourn
3 (to give to Zion's
mourners), to give them for ashes a garland, for mourning-dress, the oil of
gladness, for despondency, festal attire; and they will be called 'terebinths
of saving justice', planted by Yahweh to glorify him.
6 but you will be
called 'priests of Yahweh' and be addressed as 'ministers of our God'. You will
feed on the wealth of nations, you will supplant them in their glory.
8 For I am Yahweh: I
love fair judgement, I hate robbery and wrong-doing, and I shall reward them
faithfully and make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 Their race will be
famous throughout the nations and their offspring throughout the peoples. All
who see them will admit that they are a race whom Yahweh has blessed.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 89:21-22, 25,
27
21 My hand will always
be with him, my arm will make him strong.
22 'No enemy will be
able to outwit him, no wicked man overcome him;
25 I shall establish his
power over the sea, his dominion over the rivers.
27 So I shall make him
my first-born, the highest of earthly kings.
Second Reading
REVELATION 1:5-8
5 and from Jesus
Christ, the faithful witness, the First-born from the dead, the highest of
earthly kings. He loves us and has washed away our sins with his blood,
6 and made us a Kingdom
of Priests to serve his God and Father; to him, then, be glory and power for
ever and ever. Amen.
7 Look, he is coming on
the clouds; everyone will see him, even those who pierced him, and all the
races of the earth will mourn over him. Indeed this shall be so. Amen.
8 'I am the Alpha and
the Omega,' says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is to come, the
Almighty.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 4:16-21
16 He came to Nazara,
where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day as
he usually did. He stood up to read,
17 and they handed him
the scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where
it is written:
18 The spirit of the
Lord is on me, for he has anointed me to bring the good news to the afflicted.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to let the
oppressed go free,
19 to proclaim a year of
favour from the Lord.
20 He then rolled up the
scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the
synagogue were fixed on him.
21 Then he began to
speak to them, 'This text is being fulfilled today even while you are
listening.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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