READINGS AT MASS
Monday, April 9, 2018
The Annunciation of the Lord (Solemnity)
Liturgical Colour: White
First reading
Isaiah 7:10-14,8:10
The maiden is with child
The Lord spoke to Ahaz and said, ‘Ask the Lord your God for
a sign for yourself coming either from the depths of Sheol or from the heights
above.’ ‘No,’ Ahaz answered ‘I will not put the Lord to the test.’ Then he
said: Listen now, House of David: are you not satisfied with trying the
patience of men without trying the patience of my God, too? The Lord himself,
therefore, will give you a sign. It is this: the maiden is with child and will
soon give birth to a son whom she will call Immanuel, a name which means ‘God
is with us.’
The Word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 39(40):7-11
R/ Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.
You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings,
but an open ear.
You do not ask for holocaust and victim.
Instead, here am I. R/
In the scroll of the book it stands written
that I should do your will.
My God, I delight in your law
in the depth of my heart. R/
Your justice I have proclaimed
in the great assembly.
My lips I have not sealed;
you know it, O Lord. R/
I have not hidden your justice in my heart
but declared your faithful help.
I have not hidden your love and your truth
from the great assembly. R/
Second Reading
Hebrews 10:4-10
God's will was for us to be made holy by the offering of his body made once and for all by Jesus Christ.
Bulls’ blood and goats’ blood are useless for taking away
sins, and this is what Christ said, on coming into the world: You who wanted no
sacrifice or oblation, prepared a body for me. You took no pleasure in holocausts
or sacrifices for sin; then I said, just as I was commanded in the scroll of
the book, ‘God, here I am! I am coming to obey your will.’ Notice that he says
first: You did not want what the Law lays down as the things to be offered,
that is: the sacrifices, the oblations, the holocausts and the sacrifices for
sin, and you took no pleasure in them; and then he says: Here I am! I am coming
to obey your will. He is abolishing the first sort to replace it with the
second. And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of his body
made once and for all by Jesus Christ.
The Word of the Lord
Gospel Acclamation
John 1:14
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Word became flesh, he lived among us, and we saw his
glory.
Alleluia!
Gospel
Luke 1:26-38
'I am the handmaid of the Lord'
The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee
called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the House of
David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. He went in and said to her, ‘Rejoice, so
highly favoured! The Lord is with you.’ She was deeply disturbed by these words
and asked herself what this greeting could mean, but the angel said to her,
‘Mary, do not be afraid; you have won God’s favour. Listen! You are to conceive
and bear a son, and you must name him Jesus. He will be great and will be
called Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his
ancestor David; he will rule over the House of Jacob for ever and his reign
will have no end.’ Mary said to the angel, ‘But how can this come about, since
I am a virgin?’ ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you’ the angel answered ‘and
the power of the Most High will cover you with its shadow. And so the child
will be holy and will be called Son of God. Know this too: your kinswoman
Elizabeth has, in her old age, herself conceived a son, and she whom people
called barren is now in her sixth month, for nothing is impossible to God.’ ‘I
am the handmaid of the Lord,’ said Mary ‘let what you have said be done to me.’
And the angel left her.
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