Discover the Gospels of the Masses of the Pascal Tridum
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
Holy Thursday – Year C
Before the Passover feast, knowing that the time had come for him to go from this world to his Father, Jesus, having loved his people who were in the world, loved them to the end. During the meal, while the devil has already put in the heart of Judas, Son of Simon the Iscariote, the intention to deliver him, Jesus, knowing that the Father has put everything back in his hands, that he came out of God and that he goes towards God, gets up from the table, drops his clothing, and takes a cloth that he is knotted on the belt; Then it pours water into a pool. So he began to wash the feet of the disciples and wipe them with the linen he had on the belt. So he arrives in Simon-Pierre, who said to him: “It is you, Lord, who is lavishing my feet?” Jesus replied, “What I want to do, you don’t know now; later you will understand. “Peter said to him,” You will not wash my feet; No, never! Jesus replied, “If I don’t wash you, you won’t have part with me. “Simon-Pierre said to him:” Then, Lord, not just the feet, but also the hands and the head! “Jesus said to him:” When you have just taken a bath, you don’t need to wash, otherwise you are pure entirely. You yourself are pure, but not all. He knew well who was going to deliver him; And that is why he said: “You are not all pure. When he had washed their feet, he resumed his garment, recovered at the table and said to them: “Do you understand what I just did for you?” You call me “master” and “Lord”, and you are right, because I really am. If so me, the Lord and the Master, I washed your feet, you too should wash your feet to each other. This is an example that I gave you so that you too, you, as I did for you. »»
* Chapter 13, verses 1 to 15.
Other readings: Exodus book (chapter 12, verses 1 to 8 and 11 to 14); Psalm 115 (116b); First letter from Saint Paul to Corinthians (Chapter 11, verses 23 to 26).
Readings for the chrisal mass, also celebrated this week: Book of the prophet Isaiah (Chaptire 61, verses 1 to 3a, 6a and 8b-9); Psalm 88 (89); apocalypse book (chapter 1, verses 5 to 8); Gospel according to Saint Luke (chapter 4, verses 16 to 21).
Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke
On the first day of the week, at the forefront of the dawn, the women went to the tomb, carrying the herbs they had prepared. They found the rolled stone on the side of the tomb. They entered, but did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were distraught, here are two men stood in front of them in dazzling clothes. Seized of fear, they kept their tilted face to the ground. They said to them, “Why are you looking for the living among the dead?” He is not here, he is resurrected. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee: “The Son of Man must be delivered to the hands of sinners, that he is crucified and that, on the third day, he resuscitates.” So they remembered the words he had said. Revenue from the tomb, they brought all this to the eleven and all the others. They were Marie Madeleine, Jeanne, and Marie mother of Jacques; The other women who accompanied them said the same thing to the apostles. But these words seemed delusional to them, and they did not believe them. Then Pierre got up and ran to the tomb; But by leaning, he saw the linen, and they alone. He returned home, surprised at what had happened.
* Chapter 24, verses 1 to 12
Readings of the Easter morning mass: Book of acts of the apostles (chapter 10, verses 34 to 43); PS 117 (118); Letter from Saint Paul to Colossians (chapter 3, verses 1 to 4); Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John (chapter 20, verses 1 to 9).
The long passage
Dominique Lang, journalist at Pilgrim and assumnist religious:
Faced with the magnitude of the liturgical celebrations of the Pascal tridum, some animators sometimes make “obstacle refusals”: “really, there are too many readings in the Pascale Vigil”; “Let us think of families and children”; “After a while, we no longer listen to”; “People are going to go.” All these remarks are of course legitimate when you have the concern to make community. Developments can imagine, depending on the celebrating assemblies: for children from a school or people from a retirement home, the liturgy adapts to remain accessible. But for others, why hesitate? Is it so difficult, once a year, to plunge back into the great mystery that founds the very heart of our faith and of which each of our weekly Eucharists is only the perpetual echo? Isn’t it overwhelming to hold on to our candle in the dark night? Do not so many men and women seek to be able to make this fraternal experience of the Christian faith a real good news, even in death? Because this fear of the obstacle perhaps also expresses for some a form of embarrassment in front of what we are going to celebrate.
Once again, we will hear the detailed account of the killing of an innocent man. Once again, we are seized by the last gestures he leaves us, the tears he shed over us, his voluntary silence which does not condemn anyone. And the courage of a life given to the end. This resonates so hard with so much assaulting news around us or on our screens: even today, innocent people are struck by the disease or an accident. Others are arrested, tortured, put to death, humiliated. Even today, in places of violence, peacemakers – doctors, volunteers, journalists … – resist in preserving the dignity of humanity.
Even today, mothers mourn their sons destroyed by so many vile wars. Even today, men and women have the courage to stay on the fronts of inhumanity, at the risk of their lives. We must therefore live and relive what these celebrations give us, because they introduce us to another relationship with the world, far from worldly and appearances. Where the kingdom that Christ announces by his life spurts. There is so much feet to wash, so much bread to break, cross to wear, rolling stones. Let Christ take the time to accomplish for us his passage.
