Friday, March 25, 2016
GOOD FRIDAY – YEAR C
07:30 PM Stations of the Cross and Service
(English and Bahasa
Malaysia)
First Reading
ISAIAH 52:13-15,
53:1-12
13 Look, my servant will
prosper, will grow great, will rise to great heights.
14 As many people were
aghast at him -- he was so inhumanly disfigured that he no longer looked like a
man-
15 so many nations will
be astonished and kings will stay tight-lipped before him, seeing what had
never been told them, learning what they had not heard before.
1 Who has given
credence to what we have heard? And who has seen in it a revelation of Yahweh's
arm?
2 Like a sapling he
grew up before him, like a root in arid ground. He had no form or charm to
attract us, no beauty to win our hearts;
3 he was despised, the
lowest of men, a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering, one from whom, as it
were, we averted our gaze, despised, for whom we had no regard.
4 Yet ours were the
sufferings he was bearing, ours the sorrows he was carrying, while we thought
of him as someone being punished and struck with affliction by God;
5 whereas he was being
wounded for our rebellions, crushed because of our guilt; the punishment
reconciling us fell on him, and we have been healed by his bruises.
6 We had all gone
astray like sheep, each taking his own way, and Yahweh brought the acts of
rebellion of all of us to bear on him.
7 Ill-treated and
afflicted, he never opened his mouth, like a lamb led to the slaughter-house,
like a sheep dumb before its shearers he never opened his mouth.
8 Forcibly, after
sentence, he was taken. Which of his contemporaries was concerned at his having
been cut off from the land of the living, at his having been struck dead for
his people's rebellion?
9 He was given a grave
with the wicked, and his tomb is with the rich, although he had done no
violence, had spoken no deceit.
10 It was Yahweh's good
pleasure to crush him with pain; if he gives his life as a sin offering, he
will see his offspring and prolong his life, and through him Yahweh's good
pleasure will be done.
11 After the ordeal he
has endured, he will see the light and be content. By his knowledge, the
upright one, my servant will justify many by taking their guilt on himself.
12 Hence I shall give
him a portion with the many, and he will share the booty with the mighty, for
having exposed himself to death and for being counted as one of the rebellious,
whereas he was bearing the sin of many and interceding for the rebellious.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 31:
2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 24
2 turn your ear to me,
make haste. Be for me a rock-fastness, a fortified citadel to save me.
6 you hate those who
serve useless idols; but my trust is in Yahweh:
12 I have no more place
in their hearts than a corpse, or something lost.
13 All I hear is slander
-- terror wherever I turn -- as they plot together against me, scheming to take
my life.
15 every moment of my
life is in your hands, rescue me from the clutches of my foes who pursue me;
16 let your face shine
on your servant, save me in your faithful love.
17 I call on you,
Yahweh, so let disgrace fall not on me, but on the wicked. Let them go down to
Sheol in silence,
18 muzzles on their
lying mouths, which speak arrogantly against the upright in pride and contempt.
19 Yahweh, what
quantities of good things you have in store for those who fear you, and bestow
on those who make you their refuge, for all humanity to see.
20 Safe in your presence
you hide them, far from human plotting, shielding them in your tent, far from
contentious tongues.
21 Blessed be Yahweh who
works for me miracles of his faithful love (in a fortified city)!
22 In a state of terror
I cried, 'I have been cut off from your sight!' Yet you heard my plea for help
when I cried out to you.
23 Love Yahweh, all his
faithful: Yahweh protects his loyal servants, but he repays the arrogant with
interest.
24 Be brave, take heart,
all who put your hope in Yahweh.
Second Reading
Hebrews 4:14-16;
5:7-9
14 Since in Jesus, the
Son of God, we have the supreme high priest who has gone through to the highest
heaven, we must hold firm to our profession of faith.
15 For the high priest
we have is not incapable of feeling our weaknesses with us, but has been put to
the test in exactly the same way as ourselves, apart from sin.
16 Let us, then, have no
fear in approaching the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace when
we are in need of help.
7 During his life on
earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to
the one who had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his
reverence,
8 he learnt obedience,
Son though he was, through his sufferings;
9 when he had been
perfected, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
JOHN 18:1-19, 42
1 After he had said all
this, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron valley where there
was a garden into which he went with his disciples.
2 Judas the traitor
knew the place also, since Jesus had often met his disciples there,
3 so Judas brought the
cohort to this place together with guards sent by the chief priests and the
Pharisees, all with lanterns and torches and weapons.
4 Knowing everything
that was to happen to him, Jesus came forward and said, 'Who are you looking
for?'
5 They answered, 'Jesus
the Nazarene.' He said, 'I am he.' Now Judas the traitor was standing among
them.
6 When Jesus said to
them, 'I am he,' they moved back and fell on the ground.
7 He asked them a
second time, 'Who are you looking for?' They said, 'Jesus the Nazarene.'
8 Jesus replied, 'I
have told you that I am he. If I am the one you are looking for, let these
others go.'
9 This was to fulfil
the words he had spoken, 'Not one of those you gave me have I lost.'
10 Simon Peter, who had
a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right
ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
11 Jesus said to Peter,
'Put your sword back in its scabbard; am I not to drink the cup that the Father
has given me?'
12 The cohort and its
tribune and the Jewish guards seized Jesus and bound him.
13 They took him first
to Annas, because Annas was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest
that year.
14 It was Caiaphas who
had counselled the Jews, 'It is better for one man to die for the people.'
15 Simon Peter, with
another disciple, followed Jesus. This disciple, who was known to the high
priest, went with Jesus into the high priest's palace,
16 but Peter stayed
outside the door. So the other disciple, the one known to the high priest, went
out, spoke to the door-keeper and brought Peter in.
17 The girl on duty at
the door said to Peter, 'Aren't you another of that man's disciples?' He
answered, 'I am not.'
18 Now it was cold, and
the servants and guards had lit a charcoal fire and were standing there warming
themselves; so Peter stood there too, warming himself with the others.
19 The high priest
questioned Jesus about his disciples and his teaching.
42 Since it was the
Jewish Day of Preparation and the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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