First Reading - Ex 12:1-8.11-14
The Lord said to Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, "This
month shall stand at the head of
your calendar; you shall reckon
it the first month of the year. Tell
the whole community of Israel:
On the tenth of this month every
one of your families must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece
for each household. If a family
is too small for a whole lamb, it
shall join the nearest household
in procuring one and shall share
in the lamb in proportion to the
number of persons who partake
of it.
The lamb must be a year-old
male and without blemish. You
may take it from either the sheep
or the goats. You shall keep it until
the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present, it shall be
slaughtered during the evening
twilight. They shall take some of
its blood and apply it to the two
doorposts and the lintel of every
house in which they partake of
the lamb. That same night they
shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
This is how you are to eat it:
with your loins girt, sandals on
your feet and your staff in hand,
you shall eat like those who are
in flight. It is the Passover of the
Lord. For on this same night I will
go through Egypt, striking down
every firstborn of the land, both
man and beast, and executing
judgment on all the gods of Egypt - I, the Lord! But the blood will
mark the houses where you are.
Seeing the blood, I will pass over
you; thus, when I strike the land
of Egypt, no destructive blow will
come upon you.
This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your
generations shall celebrate with
pilgrimage to the Lord, as a perpetual institution."
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 116
R - Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ!
* How shall I make a return to
the Lord for all the good he has
done for me? The cup of salvation
I will take up, and I will call upon
the name of the Lord. R.
* Precious in the eyes of the
Lord is the death of his faithful ones. I am your servant, the
son of your handmaid; you have
loosed my bonds. R.
* To you will I offer sacrifice of
thanksgiving, and I will call upon
the name of the Lord. My vows to
the Lord I will pay in the presence
of all his people. R.
Second Reading - 1 Cor 11:23-26
Brothers and sisters:
I received from the Lord what
I also handed on to you, that the
Lord Jesus, on the night he was
handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it
and said, "This is my body that is
for you. Do this in remembrance
of me" In the same way also the
cup, after supper, saying, "This
cup is the new covenant in my
blood. Do this, as often as you
drink it, in remembrance of me."
For as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Verse before the Gospel
“I give you a new commandment,” says the
Lord: “love one another
as I have loved you.”
Gospel Jn 13:1-15
Before the feast of Passover,
Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to
the Father. He loved his own in
the world and he loved them to
the end.
The devil had already induced
Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot,
to hand him over. So, during supper, fully aware that the Father
had put everything into his power
and that he had come from God
and was returning to God, Jesus
rose from supper and took off his
outer garments. He took a towel
and tied it around his waist. Then
he poured water into a basin and
began to wash his disciples' feet and dry them with the towel
around his waist.
He came to Simon Peter, who
said to him, "Master, are you going to wash my feet? "Jesus answered and said to him, "What I
am doing, you do not understand
now, but you will understand
later" Peter said to him, "You
will never wash my feet!" Jesus
answered him, "Unless I wash
you, you will have no inheritance
with me." Simon Peter said to him, "Master, then not only my feet,
but my hands and head as well!" Jesus said to him, "Whoever has
bathed has no need except to
have his feet washed, for he is
clean all over; so you are clean,
but not all." For he knew who
would betray him; for this reason,
he said, "Not all of you are clean"
So when he had washed their
feet and put his garments back
on and reclined at table again, he
said to them, "Do you realize what
I have done for you? You call me 'teacher' and 'master', and rightly
so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore,
the master and teacher, have
washed your feet, you ought to
wash one another's feet.
I have given you a model to
follow, so that as I have done for
you, you should also do."
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