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Today's Readings
Reading I
Is 50:4-9a
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. He is near who upholds my right; if anyone wishes
to oppose me, let us appear together. Who disputes my right? Let him
confront me. See, the Lord GOD is my help; who will prove me wrong?
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 33-34
R. (14c) Lord, in your great love, answer me. For your sake I
bear insult, and shame covers my face. I have become an outcast to
my brothers, a stranger to my mother’s sons, because zeal for your
house consumes me, and the insults of those who blaspheme you fall
upon me. R. Lord, in your great love, answer me. Insult has
broken my heart, and I am weak, I looked for sympathy, but there was
none; for consolers, not one could I find. Rather they put gall in
my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. R. Lord,
in your great love, answer me. I will praise the name of God in
song, and I will glorify him with thanksgiving: “See, you lowly
ones, and be glad; you who seek God, may your hearts revive! For the
LORD hears the poor, and his own who are in bonds he spurns not.” R.
Lord, in your great love, answer me.
Gospel
Mt 26:14-25
One of the Twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief
priests and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him
over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver, and from that
time on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over. On the
first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples approached
Jesus and said, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the
Passover?” He said, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him,
‘The teacher says, My appointed time draws near; in your house I
shall celebrate the Passover with my disciples.” The disciples then
did as Jesus had ordered, and prepared the Passover. When it
was evening, he reclined at table with the Twelve. And while they
were eating, he said, “Amen, I say to you, one of you will betray
me.” Deeply distressed at this, they began to say to him one after
another, “Surely it is not I, Lord?” He said in reply, “He who has
dipped his hand into the dish with me is the one who will betray me.
The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written of him, but woe to that
man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. It would be better for that
man if he had never been born.” Then Judas, his betrayer, said in
reply, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?” He answered, “You have said so.” |
