BLESSINGS ON HIM WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD
May I receive the Bread of Angels, the King of kings and Lord of lords, with humble reverence, with the purity and faith, the repentance and love, and the determined purpose that will help to bring me to salvation.
May I receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood, and its reality and power. Kind God, may I receive the Body of Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of the Virgin Mary, and so be received into His mystical body and numbered among His members.
Loving Father, as on my earthly pilgrimage I now receive Your beloved Son under the veil of a sacrament, may I one day see Him face to face in glory, who lives and reigns with You forever. Amen. By Knights of the HolyEucharist. Mass Readings Lectures Reflection
Mark 11:1-10
When they drew near to
Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of
his disciples, and said to them, ‘Go into the village opposite you, and
immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever
sat; untie it and bring it.
If any one says to you, “Why
are you doing this?” say, “The Lord has need of it and will send it back here
immediately.”’ And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door out in the
open street; and they untied it. And those who stood there said to them, ‘What
are you doing, untying the colt?’ And they told them what Jesus had said; and
they let them go. And they brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments
on it; and he sat upon it.
And many spread their garments
on the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the
fields. And those who went before and those who followed cried out, ‘Hosanna! Blessed
is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the kingdom of our father
David that is coming! Hosanna in the highest!’
First Reading Isaiah
50:4-7
The Lord has given me a
disciple’s tongue. So that I may know how to reply to the wearied he provides me with speech. Each
morning he wakes me to hear, to listen like a disciple. The Lord has opened my
ear. For my part, I made no resistance, neither did I turn away. I offered my
back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who tore at my beard; I did not
cover my face against insult and spittle. The Lord comes to my help, so that I
am untouched by the insults. So, too, I set my face like flint; I know I shall
not be shamed.
My God My God why have you forsaken me
Christ humbled himself but God
raised him high
His state was divine, yet
Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to
assume the condition of a slave and became as men are; and being as all men
are, he was humbler yet, even to
accepting death, death on a cross.
But God raised him high and
gave him the name which is above all other names so that all beings in the
heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of
Jesus and that every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory
of God the Father.
Gospel Mark 14:1-15,47
The Passion of our Lord Jesus
Christ according to Mark
N. It was two days before the Passover and
the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were
looking for a way to arrest Jesus by some trick and have him put to death. For
they said,
C. It must not be during the festivities, or
there will be a disturbance among the people.
N. Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon
the leper; he was at dinner when a woman came in with an alabaster jar of very
costly ointment, pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the ointment on his
head. Some who were there said to one another indignantly,
C. Why this waste of ointment? Ointment like
this could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to
the poor.
N. and they were angry with her. But Jesus
said,
✠ Leave her alone. Why are
you upsetting her? What she has done for me is one of the good works. You have
the poor with you always, and you can be kind to them whenever you wish, but
you will not always have me. She has done what was in her power to do: she has
anointed my body beforehand for its burial. I tell you solemnly, wherever
throughout all the world the Good News is proclaimed, what she has done will be
told also, in remembrance of her.......
Heavenly Father thank you for your Son Jesus Christ. Father take all the glory now and for ever more in most holy name of Jesus Christ. My Lord and Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ thank you for loving me. Hosanna! Hosanna!! Hosanna in the highest.
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