Saturday, June 06,
2015
Corpus Christi – Year
B
5:30 pm Multilingual Mass and Procession
First Reading
EXODUS 24:3-8
3 Moses went and told
the people all Yahweh's words and all the laws, and all the people answered
with one voice, 'All the words Yahweh has spoken we will CARRY out!'
4 Moses put all
Yahweh's words into writing, and early next morning he built an altar at the
foot of the mountain, with twelve standing-stones for the twelve tribes of
Israel.
5 Then he SENT certain
young Israelites to OFFER burnt offerings and sacrifice bullocks to Yahweh as
communion sacrifices.
6 Moses then took half
the blood AND PUT it into basins, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
7 Then, taking the BOOK
of the Covenant, he read it to the listening people, who then said, 'We shall
do everything that Yahweh has said; we shall obey.'
8 Moses then took the
blood and sprinkled it over the people, saying, 'This is the blood of the
covenant which Yahweh has made with you, entailing all these stipulations.'
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 115:12-13,
15-18
12 Yahweh will keep us
in mind, he will bless, he will bless the House of Israel, he will bless the
House of Aaron,
13 he will bless those
who fear Yahweh, small and great alike.
15 May you be blessed by
Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
16 Heaven belongs to
Yahweh, but earth he has given to the children of Adam.
17 The dead cannot
praise Yahweh, those who sink into silence,
18 but we, the living,
shall bless Yahweh, henceforth and for ever.
Second Reading
HEBREWS 9:11-15
11 But now Christ has
come, as the high priest of all the blessings which were to come. He has PASSED
through the greater, the more perfect tent, not made by human hands, that is,
not of this created order;
12 and he has entered
the sanctuary once and for all, taking with him not the blood of goats and bull
calves, but his own blood, having won an eternal redemption.
13 The blood of goats
and bulls and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkled on those who have incurred
defilement, may restore their bodily purity.
14 How much more will
the blood of Christ, who OFFERED himself, blameless as he was, to God through
the eternal Spirit, purify our conscience from dead actions so that we can
worship the living God.
15 This makes him the
mediator of a NEW covenant, so that, now that a death has occurred to redeem the
sins committed under an earlier covenant, those who have been called to an
eternal inheritance may receive the promise.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MARK 14:12-16, 22-26
12 On the first day of
Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was sacrificed, his disciples said to
him, 'Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the
Passover?'
13 So he sent two of his
disciples, saying to them, 'Go into the CITY and you will meet a man CARRYING a
pitcher of water. Follow him,
14 and say to the owner
of the house which he enters, "The Master says: Where is the room for me
to eat the Passover with my disciples?"
15 He will show you a
large upper room furnished with couches, all prepared. Make the preparations
for us there.'
16 The disciples set out
and went to the CITY and found everything as he had told them, and prepared the
Passover.
22 And as they were
eating he took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and gave it
to them. 'Take it,' he said, 'this is my body.'
23 Then he took A cup,
and when he had given thanks he handed it to them, and all drank from it,
24 and he said to them,
'This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, poured out for many.
25 In truth I tell you,
I shall never drink wine any more until the day I drink the NEW wine in the
kingdom of God.'
26 After the psalms had
been sung they left for the Mount of Olives.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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