FIRST
READING: Exodus
11: 10 -- Exodus
12: 14
10
And Moses and Aaron did all the wonders that are written, before
Pharao. And the Lord hardened Pharao's heart, neither did he let the
children of Israel go out of his land.
1
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
2
This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the
first in the months of the year.
3
Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to
them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by
their families and houses.
4
But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall
take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to
the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.
5
And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year:
according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
6
And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the
whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the
evening.
7
And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the
side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they
shall eat it.
8
And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and
unleavened bread with wild lettuce.
9
You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but
only roasted at the fire: you shall eat the head with the feet and
entrails thereof.
10
Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be
any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.
11
And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall
have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall
eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.
12
And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill
every firstborn in the land of Egypt both man and beast: and against
all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
13
And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you
shall be: and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you: and the
plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the
land of Egypt.
14
And this day shall be for a memorial to you: and you shall keep it a
feast to the Lord in your generations with an everlasting observance.
PSALM:
Psalms 116:
12 - 13, 15 - 18
12
What shall I render to the Lord, for all the things he hath rendered
unto me?
13
I will take the chalice of salvation; and I will call upon the name
of the Lord.
15
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
16
O Lord, for I am thy servant: I am thy servant, and the son of thy
handmaid. Thou hast broken my bonds:
17
I will sacrifice to thee the sacrifice of praise, and I will call
upon the name of the Lord.
18
I will pay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people:
GOSPEL:
Matthew 12:
1 - 8
1
At that time Jesus went through the corn on the sabbath: and his
disciples being hungry, began to pluck the ears, and to eat.
2
And the Pharisees seeing them, said to him: Behold thy disciples do
that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days.
3
But he said to them: Have you not read what David did when he was
hungry, and they that were with him:
4
How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the loaves of
proposition, which it was not lawful for him to eat, nor for them
that were with him, but for the priests only?
5
Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath days the priests
in the temple break the sabbath, and are without blame?
6
But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.
7
And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not
sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.
8
For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath.
