MONDAY 8TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Universalis
‘This is your mother.’
Reading Genesis 3:9-15,20 The mother of
all those who live
After Adam had
eaten of the tree the Lord God called to him. ‘Where are you?’ he asked. ‘I
heard the sound of you in the garden;’ he replied ‘I was afraid because I was
naked, so I hid.’ ‘Who told you that you were naked?’ he asked ‘Have you been
eating of the tree I forbade you to eat?’ The man replied, ‘It was the woman
you put with me; she gave me the fruit, and I ate it.’ Then the Lord God asked
the woman, ‘What is this you have done?’ The woman replied, ‘The serpent
tempted me and I ate.’
Then the Lord
God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, ‘Be accursed beyond all
cattle, all wild beasts. You shall crawl on your belly and eat dust every day
of your life. I will make you enemies of each other: you and the woman, your
offspring and her offspring. It will crush your head and you will strike its
heel.’
The man named
his wife ‘Eve’ because she was the mother of all those who live.
Gospel John 19:24-34 'Behold your son. Behold your mother.'
Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus said to his mother, ‘Woman, this is your son.’ Then to the disciple he said, ‘This is your mother.’ And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home. CDR
After this, Jesus knew that everything had now been completed, and to fulfil the scripture perfectly he said, ‘I am thirsty.’
A jar full of vinegar stood there, so putting a sponge soaked in the vinegar on a hyssop stick they held it up to his mouth. After Jesus had taken the vinegar he said, ‘It is accomplished’; and bowing his head he gave up his spirit.
It was Preparation Day, and to prevent the bodies remaining on the cross during the sabbath – since that sabbath was a day of special solemnity – the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken away. Consequently the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with him and then of the other. When they came to Jesus, they found he was already dead, and so instead of breaking his legs one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water.
God most Holy of you are told glorious
things, O city of God! On the holy mountain is his city cherished
by the Lord. The Lord prefers the gates of Zion to all Jacob’s
dwellings. ‘Zion shall be called “Mother” for all shall be her children.’ It
is he, the Lord Most High, who gives each his place. In his register of peoples,
he writes: ‘These are her children,’ and while they dance they will sing: ‘In
you all find their home.’
Lord Jesus I trust in you. Virgin Mary
pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. God’s Angels and Saints pray for me. My
Guardian Angel pray for me. Protect me.
Pray your Holy Rosary: Hail Mary, Mother
of the Church pray for us.
Honor of the our Lord Jesus Christ and Mother: Beautiful Saviour
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