07 April 2020

One of you will betray me; another will deny me three times.
FIRST READING 
(Isaiah 49.1-6)

1 Listen to me, O coastlands,
pay attention, you peoples from far away!
The Lord called me before I was born,
while I was in my mother’s womb he named me.
2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword,
in the shadow of his hand he hid me;
he made me a polished arrow,
in his quiver he hid me away.
3 And he said to me, “You are my servant,
Israel, in whom I will be glorified.”
4 But I said, “I have laboured in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;
yet surely my cause is with the Lord,
and my reward with my God.” 
5 And now the Lord says,
who formed me in the womb to be his servant,
to bring Jacob back to him,
and that Israel might be gathered to him,
for I am honoured in the sight of the Lord,
and my God has become my strength.
6 The Lord says,
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to restore the survivors of Israel;
I will give you as a light to the nations,
that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM 
(Psalm 71.1-2, 3, 5-6, 15, 17) 

(R.15)
Response: I will sing of your salvation.

1 In you, O Lord, I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
2 In your righteousness, deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me and save me. R.

3 Be to me a rock of refuge,
a strong fortress, to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked. R.

5 For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
6 Upon you I have leaned from my birth;
it was you who took me from my mother’s womb. R.

15 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all day long.
17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. R.

GOSPEL 
(John 13.21-33, 36-38)

Before the festival of the Passover,
Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world
and go to the Father.
During the supper with his disciples,
21 Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared,
“Very truly, I tell you,
one of you will betray me.”
22 The disciples looked at one another,
uncertain of whom he was speaking.
23 One of his disciples—the one whom Jesus loved—
was reclining next to him;
24 Simon Peter therefore motioned to him
to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking.
25 So while reclining next to Jesus, he asked him,
“Lord, who is it?”
26 Jesus answered,
“It is the one to whom I give this piece of bread
when I have dipped it in the dish.”
So when he had dipped the piece of bread,
he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot.
27 After he received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him.
Jesus said to him,
“Do quickly what you are going to do.”
28 Now no one at the table knew why he said this to him.
29 Some thought that, because Judas had the common purse,
Jesus was telling him,
“Buy what we need for the festival”;
or, that he should give something to the poor.
30 So, after receiving the piece of bread,
he immediately went out.
And it was night.
31 When Judas had gone out, Jesus said,
“Now the Son of Man has been glorified,
and God has been glorified in him.
32 If God has been glorified in him,
God will also glorify him in himself
and will glorify him at once.
33 “Little children,
I am with you only a little longer.
You will look for me;
and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you,
‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’”
36 Simon Peter said to him,
“Lord, where are you going?”
Jesus answered,
“Where I am going, you cannot follow me now;
but you will follow afterward.”
37 Peter said to him,
“Lord, why can I not follow you now?
I will lay down my life for you.”
38 Jesus answered,
“Will you lay down your life for me?
Very truly, I tell you, before the cock crows,
you will have denied me three times.”