Saturday, April 08,
2017
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s
Passion – Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ISAIAH 50:4-7
4 Lord Yahweh has given
me a disciple's tongue, for me to know how to give a word of comfort to the
weary. Morning by morning he makes my ear alert to listen like a disciple.
5 Lord Yahweh has opened
my ear and I have not resisted, I have not turned away.
6 I have offered my back
to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; I have not
turned my face away from insult and spitting.
7 Lord Yahweh comes to my
help, this is why insult has not touched me, this is why I have set my face
like flint and know that I shall not be put to shame.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24
8 'He trusted himself to
Yahweh, let Yahweh set him free! Let him deliver him, as he took such delight
in him.'
9 It was you who drew me
from the womb and soothed me on my mother's breast.
17 I can count every one
of my bones, while they look on and gloat;
18 they divide my garments
among them and cast lots for my clothing.
19 Yahweh, do not hold aloof!
My strength, come quickly to my help,
20 rescue my soul from the
sword, the one life I have from the grasp of the dog!
23 'You who fear Yahweh,
praise him! All the race of Jacob, honour him! Revere him, all the race of
Israel!'
24 For he has not despised
nor disregarded the poverty of the poor, has not turned away his face, but has
listened to the cry for help.
Second Reading
Philippians 2:6-11
6 Who, being in the form
of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.
7 But he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every
way like a human being,
8 he was humbler yet,
even to accepting death, death on a cross.
9 And for this God raised
him high, and gave him the name which is above all other names;
10 so that all beings in
the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name
of Jesus
11 and that every tongue
should acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
MATTHEW 26:14-27, 66
14 Then one of the Twelve,
the man called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests
15 and said, 'What are you
prepared to give me if I hand him over to you?' They paid him thirty silver
pieces,
16 and from then onwards
he began to look for an opportunity to betray him.
17 Now on the first day of
Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus to say, 'Where do you want us to
make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?'
18 He said, 'Go to a
certain man in the city and say to him, "The Master says: My time is near.
It is at your house that I am keeping Passover with my disciples." '
19 The disciples did what
Jesus told them and prepared the Passover.
20 When evening came he
was at table with the Twelve.
21 And while they were
eating he said, 'In truth I tell you, one of you is about to betray me.'
22 They were greatly
distressed and started asking him in turn, 'Not me, Lord, surely?'
23 He answered, 'Someone
who has dipped his hand into the dish with me will betray me.
24 The Son of man is going
to his fate, as the scriptures say he will, but alas for that man by whom the
Son of man is betrayed! Better for that man if he had never been born!'
25 Judas, who was to
betray him, asked in his turn, 'Not me, Rabbi, surely?' Jesus answered, 'It is
you who say it.'
26 Now as they were
eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had said the blessing he broke it and
gave it to the disciples. 'Take it and eat,' he said, 'this is my body.'
27 Then he took a cup, and
when he had given thanks he handed it to them saying, 'Drink from this, all of
you,
66 What is your opinion?'
They answered, 'He deserves to die.'
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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