Daily Gospel for April 9. Readings for today, Holy Thursday

Reading for today April 9, Holy Thursday

Reading the Book of Exodus 12,1-8.11-14. The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, "This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year. Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every one of your families must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household. If a family is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join the nearest household in procuring one and shall share in the lamb in proportion to the number of persons who partake of it. The lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present, it shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight. They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of every house in which they partake of the lamb. That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. "This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the LORD. For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every first--born of the land, both man and beast, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt - I, the LORD! But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thus, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you. "This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution."

Daily Psalm. PSalm 116,12-13.15-16bc.17-18.

(R). "The cup of blessing is communion with the blood of Christ."

How shall I make a return to the LORD for all the good he has done for me? The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. (R).

Precious in the eyes of the LORD is the death of his faithful ones. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosed my bonds. (R).

To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. My vows to the LORD I will pay   in the presence of all his people. (R).

Second Reading for today April 9. First Letter to the Corinthians 11,23-26.

Brothers and sisters: 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, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 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." For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

Daily Gospel Aclamation for April 9, Holy Thursday.

"Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory! The spirit of the Lord has been given to me. He has sent me to bring the good news to the poor. Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!"

Daily Gospel for April 9. John 13,1-15.

Reading for daily Gospel - (Holy Thursday: 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. The devil had already induced Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God, he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples´ feet and dry them with the towel around his waist.
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Master, are you going to wash my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later." Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet." Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me." Simon Peter said to him, "Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well." 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." For he knew who would betray him; for this reason, he said, "Not all of you are clean." 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? You call me ´teacher´ and ´master,´ and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another´s feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.

Daily Gospel Commentaries by Pope Francis.

About Gospel of today - We have felt what Jesus did at the Last Supper. It´s a farewell gesture. It is the heritage he leaves us.

He is God and he became a servant, our servant, and this is the inheritance. You too must be servants, one of the others. He made this way out of love.

You too must love each other and be servants in love. This is the inheritance that Jesus leaves us.

And He makes this gesture of washing the feet because it is a symbolic gesture: slaves, servants, diners, people who came for lunch or dinner did it because at that time the streets were all dirt, and when they came into the house, they had to wash their feet.

Jesus makes a gesture, a work, a service of a slave, of a servant, and this he leaves as an inheritance among us.

We have to be servants to one another, and therefore the Church, on this day when the Last Supper is commemorated, when Jesus has instituted the Eucharist, also makes this gesture of washing feet in the ceremony, which reminds us that we should be servants to one another.

Now I will make this gesture, but all of us, in our hearts, let us think about the others, and let us think about the love that Jesus tells us we have to have with the others; and let us also think about how we can serve them better, the other people, because that is how Jesus wanted it from us (Homily of today´s Gospel. Saint Martha, April 17, 2014)

Pope´s quotes.

"From the open heart of the Crucified one, God’s love reaches each one of us. Let us allow His gaze to rest on us. We will understand that we are not alone, but loved, for the Lord does not abandon us and He never, ever forgets us." (04.8.2020 - @pontifex)

Daily Gospel, meditation in video for April 9, Holy Thursday.