Readings at Mass

Liturgical Colour: White. Year: C(I).

There is no choice between ferial and memorial readings today, because all readings are proper to the memorial.

First reading
Genesis 3:9-15, 20

‘I will put enmity between your offspring and the offspring of the woman.’

After Adam had eaten of the tree: The Lord God called to the man and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ And he said, ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.’ He said, ‘Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?’ The man said, ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.’ Then the Lord God said to the woman, ‘What is this that you have done?’ The woman said, ‘The serpent deceived me, and I ate.’

The Lord God said to the serpent,

‘Because you have done this,

cursed are you above all livestock

and above all beasts of the field;

on your belly you shall go,

and dust you shall eat

all the days of your life.

I will put enmity between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring;

he shall bruise your head,

and you shall bruise his heel.’

The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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Responsorial Psalm
Ps 87(86):1-2. 3, 5. 6-7. ℟3

Of you are told glorious things, you, O city of God!

Founded by him on the holy mountain,

the Lord loves the gates of Sion,

more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Of you are told glorious things, you, O city of God!

Of you are told glorious things,

you, O city of God!

‘But of Sion it shall be said,

“Each one was born in her.” ’

He, the Most High, will establish her.

Of you are told glorious things, you, O city of God!

In his register of peoples the Lord writes,

‘Here was this one born.’

The singers cry out in chorus,

‘All my wellsprings are in you.’

Of you are told glorious things, you, O city of God!

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia.

O joyful Virgin, who gave birth to the Lord;

O blessed Mother of the Church,

who nurture in us the Spirit

of your Son Jesus Christ!

Alleluia.

Gospel	John 19:25-34

‘Behold, your son! Behold, your mother!’

At that time: Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son!’ Then he said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother!’ And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfil the Scripture), ‘I thirst.’ A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is finished’, and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.

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