PRAISE TO YOU, O CHRIST, KING OF ETERNAL GLORY!
MAUNDY THURSDAY: Universalis
‘This text is being fulfilled today even as you listen.
First Reading Isaiah 61:1-3,6,8-9 The Lord has anointed me
The spirit of
the Lord has been given to me, for the Lord
has anointed me. He has sent me
to bring good news to the poor, to bind up
hearts that are broken; to proclaim
liberty to captives, freedom to
those in prison; to proclaim a
year of favour from the Lord, a day of
vengeance for our God, to comfort all
those who mourn and to give them for ashes a
garland; for mourning
robe the oil of gladness, for despondency,
praise. But you, you
will be named ‘priests of the Lord’, they will call
you ‘ministers of our God.’ I reward them
faithfully and make an
everlasting covenant with them. Their race will
be famous throughout the nations, their
descendants throughout the peoples. All who see
them will admit that they are a
race whom the Lord has blessed.
Responsorial Psalm:I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.
Second
Reading Apocalypse 1:5-8 Jesus Christ
has made us a line of kings and priests
Grace and peace
to you from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the First-Born from the dead,
the Ruler of the kings of the earth. He loves us and has washed away our sins
with his blood, and made us a line of kings, priests to serve his God and
Father; to him, then, be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen. It is he who is
coming on the clouds; everyone will see him, even those who pierced him, and
all the races of the earth will mourn over him. This is the truth. Amen. ‘I am
the Alpha and the Omega’ says the Lord God, who is, who was, and who is to
come, the Almighty.
Jesus came to
Nazara, where he had been brought up, and went into the synagogue on the
sabbath day as he usually did. He stood up to read and they handed him the
scroll of the prophet Isaiah. Unrolling the scroll he found the place where it
is written:
The spirit of
the Lord has been given to me, for he has
anointed me. He has sent me
to bring the good news to the poor, to proclaim
liberty to captives and to the
blind new sight, to set the
downtrodden free, to proclaim the
Lord’s year of favour.
He then rolled
up the scroll, gave it back to the assistant and sat down. And all eyes in the
synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to speak to them, ‘This text is
being fulfilled today even as you listen.’
Pray the Holy Rosary. Ave Maria
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