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| "Judas Goes to Find the Jews" -- by James Tissot |
Wednesday
of Holy Week
FIRST
READING: Isaiah
50: 4 - 9
4
The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to
uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the
morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
5
The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone
back.
6
I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that
plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked
me, and spit upon me.
7
The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore
have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not
be confounded.
8
He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand
together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
9
Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me?
Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them
up.
PSALM:
Psalms 69:
8 - 10, 21 - 22, 31, 33 - 34
8
I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my
mother.
9
For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of
them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
10
And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
21
And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me
vinegar to drink.
22
Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and
a stumblingblock.
31
And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth
horns and hoofs.
33
For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his
prisoners.
34
Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing
that creepeth therein.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 26:
14 - 25
14
Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the
chief priests,
15
And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto
you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.
16
And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.
17
And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus,
saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch?
18
But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him:
the master saith, My time is near at hand, with thee I make the pasch
with my disciples.
19
And the disciples did as Jesus appointed to them, and they prepared
the pasch.
20
But when it was evening, he sat down with his twelve disciples.
21
And whilst they were eating, he said: Amen I say to you, that one of
you is about to betray me.
22
And they being very much troubled, began every one to say: Is it I,
Lord?
23
But he answering, said: He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish,
he shall betray me.
24
The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that
man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him,
if that man had not been born.
25
And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He
saith to him: Thou hast said it.
