Holy Tuesday, Year C
Holy Week - Tuesday
Reading I Is 49:1-6
A Reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah
I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to
the ends of the earth
(Second oracle of the Servant of the Lord).
Hear me, O islands, listen, O distant peoples. The Lord called me from
birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name. He made of me a sharp-
edged sword and concealed me in the shadow of his arm. He made me a polished
arrow, in his quiver he hid me. You are my servant, he said to me, Israel,
through whom I show my glory. Though I thought I had toiled in vain, and
for nothing, uselessly, spent my strength, yet my reward is with the Lord,
my recompense is with my God. For now the Lord has spoken who formed me
as his servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to him and
Israel gathered to him; and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord,
and my God is now my strength! It is too little, he says, for you to be
my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of
Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may
reach to the ends of the earth.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Jn 13:21-33, 36-38
Verse before the Gospel
Hail to you, our King; obedient to the Father; you were led to your
crucifixion like a gentle lamb to the slaughter.
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John
One of you will betray me; the cock will not crow before you deny me
three times.
Reclining at table with his disciples, Jesus was deeply troubled and
testified, “Amen, amen, I say to you, one of you will betray me.” The
disciples looked at one another, at a loss as to whom he meant. One of
his disciples, the one whom Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side.
So Simon Peter nodded to him to find out whom he meant. He leaned back
against Jesus’ chest and said to him, “Master, who is it?” Jesus answered,
“It is the one to whom I hand the morsel after I have dipped it.” So he
dipped the morsel and took it and handed it to Judas, son of Simon the
Iscariot. After Judas took the morsel, Satan entered him. So Jesus said to
him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.” Now none of those reclining
at table realized why he said this to him. Some thought that since Judas
kept the money bag, Jesus had told him, “Buy what we need for the feast,”
or to give something to the poor. So Judas took the morsel and left at
once. And it was night. When he had left, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of
Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him,
God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him at once.
My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will
look for me, and as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so
now I say it to you.” Simon Peter said to him, “Master, where are you going?”
Jesus answered him, “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though
you will follow later.” Peter said to him, “Master, why can I not follow
you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Jesus answered, “Will you lay
down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow
before you deny me three times.”
The gospel of the Lord.
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