Responsorial Psalm
How can I repay the Lord
for all his goodness to me?
I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the Lord.
It is painful to the Lord
to see the death of his faithful.
O Lord, I am your servant,
truly your servant, your handmaid's son.
You have freed me from my bonds.
I will offer you a thanksgiving sacrifice;
I will call on the name of the Lord.
I will carry out my vows to the Lord
in the presence of his people.
SANTÍSIMO CUERPO Y SANGRE DE CRISTO
2nd. READING (Heb 9,11-15)
But now Christ has appeared as the high priest with regard to the good things of these
new times. He passed through a sanctuary more noble and perfect, not made by hands,
that is, not created. He did not take with himself the blood of goats and bulls but
his own blood, when he entered once and for all into this sanctuary after obtaining
definitive redemption. If the sprinkling of people defiled by sin with the blood of goats
and bulls or with the ashes of a heifer provides them with exterior cleanness and
holiness, how much more will it be with the blood of Christ? He, moved by the eternal
Spirit, offered himself as an unblemished victim to God and his blood cleanses us from
dead works, so that we may serve the living God. So Christ is the mediator of a new
covenant or testament. His death made atonement for the sins committed under the Old
Testament, and the promise is handed over to all that are called to the everlasting
inheritance.
Gospel
On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the day when the Passover Lamb
was killed, and the disciples asked him, "Where would you have us go to prepare the
Passover meal for you?" So Jesus sent two of his disciples with these instructions, "Go
into the city and there a man will come to you carrying a jar of water. Follow him to
the house he enters and say to the owner, 'The Master says: Where is the room where I
may eat the Passover meal with my disciples?' Then he will show you a large room
upstairs, already arranged and furnished. There you will prepare for us." The disciples
went off. When they reached the city, they found everything just as Jesus had told
them; and they prepared the Passover meal. While they were eating, Jesus took bread,
blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. And he said, "Take this, it is my body."
Then he took a cup and after he had given thanks, passed it to them and they all drank
from it. And he said, "This is my blood, the blood of the Covenant, which is to be
poured out for many. Truly, I say to you, I will not taste the fruit of the vine again until
the day I drink the new wine in the kingdom of God. "After singing psalms of praise,
they went out to the Hill of Olives.
