Holy Mass Online - Readings and Video : Monday, April 11, 2022 - #Eucharist in Your Virtual Church



Monday of Holy Week
Lectionary: 257
Reading I
Is 42:1-7
Here is my servant whom I uphold,
            my chosen one with whom I am pleased,
 
 Upon whom I have put my Spirit;
            he shall bring forth justice to the nations,
Not crying out, not shouting,
            not making his voice heard in the street.
A bruised reed he shall not break,
            and a smoldering wick he shall not quench,
Until he establishes justice on the earth;
            the coastlands will wait for his teaching.
Thus says God, the LORD,
            who created the heavens and stretched them out,
            who spreads out the earth with its crops,
Who gives breath to its people
            and spirit to those who walk on it:
I, the LORD, have called you for the victory of justice,
            I have grasped you by the hand;
I formed you, and set you
            as a covenant of the people,
            a light for the nations,
To open the eyes of the blind,
            to bring out prisoners from confinement,
            and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
Responsorial Psalm
27:1, 2, 3, 13-14
R.        (1a)  The Lord is my light and my salvation.
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
            whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life’s refuge;
            of whom should I be afraid?
R.        The Lord is my light and my salvation.
When evildoers come at me
            to devour my flesh,
My foes and my enemies
            themselves stumble and fall.
R.        The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Though an army encamp against me,
            my heart will not fear;
Though war be waged upon me,
            even then will I trust.
R.        The Lord is my light and my salvation.
I believe that I shall see the bounty of the LORD
            in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD with courage;
            be stouthearted, and wait for the LORD.
R.        The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Verse before the Gospel
Hail to you, our King;
you alone are compassionate with our faults.
Gospel
Jn 12:1-11
Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany,
where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served,
while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.
Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil
made from genuine aromatic nard
and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair;
the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples,
and the one who would betray him, said,
“Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days’ wages
and given to the poor?”
He said this not because he cared about the poor
but because he was a thief and held the money bag
and used to steal the contributions.
So Jesus said, “Leave her alone.
Let her keep this for the day of my burial.
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
The large crowd of the Jews found out that he was there and came,
not only because of him, but also to see Lazarus,
whom he had raised from the dead.
And the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus too,
because many of the Jews were turning away
and believing in Jesus because of him.
 Prayer to Make a Spiritual Communion-
People who cannot communicate now make spiritual communion
At your feet, O my Jesus I bow down and offer you the repentance of my contrite heart, which abysses itself into its nothingness and Your holy presence. I adore you in the Sacrament of Your love, the ineffable Eucharist. I wish to receive you in the poor home that my heart offers you. In anticipation of the happiness of sacramental communion, I want to possess you in spirit. Come to me, oh my Jesus, that I may come to you. May Your love inflame my whole being, for life and death. I believe in you, I hope in you, I love you. So be it. Amen

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