LITURGICAL READING for the week of April 5-11, 2020
Sunday, April 5: PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD
Mt 21:1-11/Is 50:4-7/Phil 2:6-11/Mt 26:14—27:66
Philippians 2:9-11 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
9 Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name[e]
that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,[f]
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,[g]
to the glory of God the Father.
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Monday, April 6: MONDAY OF HOLY WEEK
Is 42:1-7/Jn 12:1-11
Isaiah 42:5-7 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
5Thus says God, the Lord,
who created the heavens and stretched them out,
who spread out the earth and its produce,
Who gives breath to its people
and spirit to those who walk on it:
6 I, the Lord, have called you for justice,
I have grasped you by the hand;
I formed you, and set you
as a covenant for the people,
a light for the nations,
7 To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
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Tuesday, April 7: TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK
Is 49:1-6/Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
Isaiah 49:5-6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
5 And now the Lord says,
who formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him,
and that Israel might be gathered to him,
for I am honored in the sight of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength—
6 he says,
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to restore the survivors of Israel;
I will give you as a light to the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
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Wednesday, April 8: WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK
Is 50:4-9a/Mt 26:14-25
Matthew 26:20-25 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
20 When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve;[a] 21 and while they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” 22 And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?” 23 He answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. 24 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.” 25 Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” He replied, “You have said so.”
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Thursday, April 9: THURSDAY OF HOLY WEEK (HOLY THURSDAY)
Chrism Mass: Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9/Rv 1:5-8/Lk 4:16-21 (260)
Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14/1 Cor 11:23-26/Jn 13:1-15 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
The Institution of the Lord’s Supper
23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for[a] you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
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Friday, April 10: FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD (GOOD FRIDAY)
Is 52:13—53:12/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/Jn 18:1—19:42
Hebrews 4:14-16 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
Jesus, Compassionate High Priest. 14 [a]Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin. 16 So let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help.
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Saturday, April 11: HOLY SATURDAY
Easter Vigil: Gn 1:1—2:2 /Gn 22:1-18, 9a, 10-13, 15-18/ Ex 14:15—15:1/Is 54:5-14/Is 55:1-11/Bar 3:9-15, 32—4:4/Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28/ Rom 6:3-11/Mt 28:1-10
Romans 6:5-11 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
5 For if we have grown into union with him through a death like his, we shall also be united with him in the resurrection. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him, so that our sinful body might be done away with, that we might no longer be in slavery to sin. 7 For a dead person has been absolved from sin. 8 If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. 9 We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.10 As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God.11 Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as [being] dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus.
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