Mass of the Lord’s Supper Year A 2023
Our first priority celebration built on the Passover celebrates God's visiting us, defeating death, and leading us to the freedom of the New Jerusalem, union with God. But in John 13 he points out that as we go along this journey we not only have his presence "feeding" us and "cleansing us" as in John 6, but also his example teaching us to give ourselves for each other in cleansing, healing, and guiding - with him in our midst - as we continue our journey to the New Jerusalem.
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Readings
FIRST READING
Exodus 12:1–8, 11–14
1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 This month will stand at the head of your calendar; you will reckon it the first month of the year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every family must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household. 4 If a household is too small for a lamb, it along with its nearest neighbor will procure one, and apportion the lamb’s cost in proportion to the number of persons, according to what each household consumes. 5 Your lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats. 6 You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight. 7 They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They will consume its meat that same night, eating it roasted with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
11 This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you will eat it in a hurry. It is the LORD’s Passover. 12 For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every firstborn in the land, human being and beast alike, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt—I, the LORD! 13 But for you the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thereby, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you.
14 This day will be a day of remembrance for you, which your future generations will celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD; you will celebrate it as a statute forever.
RESPONSE
1 Corinthians 10:16
16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
PSALM
Psalm 116:12–13, 15–16c, 17–18
12 How can I repay the LORD
for all the great good done for me?
13 I will raise the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the LORD.
15 Dear in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his devoted.
16 LORD, I am your servant,
your servant, the child of your maidservant;
you have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer a sacrifice of praise
and call on the name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows to the LORD
in the presence of all his people,
SECOND READING
1 Corinthians 11:23–26
23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, 24 and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
John 13:34
34 I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.
GOSPEL
John 13:1–15
CHAPTER 13
1 Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end. 2 The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper, 3 fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God, 4 he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Master, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.” 8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.” 10 Jesus said to him, “Whoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over; so you are clean, but not all.” 11 For he knew who would betray him; for this reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
12 So when he had washed their feet [and] put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you? 13 You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and rightly so, for indeed I am. 14 If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.
Notes
MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER
YEARS ABC | ROMAN MISSAL | LECTIONARY
On the same date: Chrism Mass
First Reading Exodus 12:1–8, 11–14
Response 1 Corinthians 10:16
Psalm Psalm 116:12–13, 15–16c, 17–18
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 11:23–26
Gospel Acclamation John 13:34
Gospel John 13:1–15