Part 1: COMMEMORATION OF THE LORD’S ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM
Opening Antiphon
Hosanna in the highest.
Gospel - Mk 11:1-10
When Jesus and his disciples drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately on entering it, you will find a colt tethered on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone should say to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ reply, ‘The Master has need of it and will send it back here at once.’ ”
So they went off and found a colt tethered at a gate outside on the street, and they untied it. Some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” They answered them just as Jesus had told them to, and they permitted them to do it.
So they brought the colt to Jesus and put their cloaks over it. And he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out: “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father Da- vid that is to come! Hosanna in the highest!”
Part 2: THE MASS
First Reading - Is 50:4-7
The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them.
Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back.
I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard. My face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.
The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced. I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.
Responsorial Psalm - Ps 22
R –My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
* All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if He loves him.” R.
* Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me. They have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones. R.
* They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots. But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me! R.
* I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!” R.
Second Reading - Phil 2:6-11
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness. And found human in appearance, he hum bled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Verse before the Gospel
All –(Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory!)
(Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory!)
Gospel - Mk 15:1-39
Characters: J: Jesus; N1: First Narrator; N2: Second Narrator; P: Pilate; C: Crowd, Chief priests; S: Soldier/Centurion
P – The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark
N1 –As soon as morning came, the chief priests, with the elders and the scribes, that is, the whole Sanhedrin, held a council. They bound Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. Pilate questioned him,
P –“Are you the king of the Jews?”
(N1 –He said to him in reply,)
J –“You say so.”
N2 –The chief priests accused
him of many things. Again Pilate questioned him,
P –“Have you no answer?
See how many things they accuse you of.”
N2 –Jesus gave him no further answer, so that Pilate was
amazed.
N1 –Now on the occasion of
the feast Pilate used to release
to them one prisoner whom
they requested. A man called
Barabbas was then in prison
along with the rebels who had
committed murder in a rebellion. The crowd came forward
and began to ask Pilate to do
for them as he was accustomed.
N2 –Pilate answered,
P –“Do you want me to release to you the king of the
Jews?”
N1 –For he knew that it was
out of envy that the chief
priests had handed him over.
But the chief priests stirred up
the crowd to have him release
Barabbas for them instead.
Pilate again said to them in reply,
P –“Then what do you want
me to do with the man you call
the king of the Jews?”
(N1 –They shouted repeatedly,)
C –“Crucify him!”
(N1 –Pilate said to them,)
P –“Why? What evil has he
done?”
N1 –They only shouted the
louder,
C –“Crucify him!”
N2 –So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas
to them and, after he had Jesus
scourged, handed him over to
be crucified.
N2 –The soldiers led him away inside the palace, that is, the praetorium, and assembled the whole cohort. They clothed him in purple and, weaving a crown of thorns, placed it on him. They began to salute him with,
S –“Hail, King of the Jews!”
N2 –and kept striking his head with a reed and spitting upon him. They knelt before him in homage.
And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of
the purple cloak, dressed him
in his own clothes, and led him
out to crucify him.
N1 –They pressed into service
a passerby, Simon, a Cyrenian,
who was coming in from the
country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his
cross. They brought him to
the place called Golgotha –
which is translated “Place of
the Skull.”
They gave him wine drugged with myrrh, but he did not take it. Then they crucified him and divided his gar- ments by casting lots for them to see what each should take.
It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.
N2 –The inscription of the charge against him read, “The King of the Jews.” With him they crucified two revolutionaries, one on his right and one on his left.
Those passing by reviled
him, shaking their heads and
saying,
C –“Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it
in three days, save yourself by
coming down from the cross!”
N1 –Likewise the chief priests,
with the scribes, mocked him
among themselves and said,
C –“He saved others; he
cannot save himself. Let the
Christ, the King of Israel,
come down now from the cross
that we may see and believe!”
N2 –Those who were crucified with him also kept abusing him.
At noon darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice,
J –“Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?”
N2 –which is translated,
J –“My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me?”
N2 –Some of the bystanders
who heard it said,
C –“Look, he is calling Elijah.”
N1 – One of them ran, soaked
a sponge with wine, put it on
a reed, and gave it to him to
drink, saying,
C –“Wait, let us see if Elijah
comes to take him down.”
N1 –Jesus gave a loud cry
and breathed his last.
(All kneel and pause for a while.)
The veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. When the centurion who stood facing him saw how Jesus breathed his last he said,
S –“Truly this man was the Son of God!”
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