Readings for the Evening Mass of the Lord’s SupperReadings for the Thursday of Holy Week

Reading I Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9

Responsorial Psalm 89:21-22, 25 and 27

Reading II Rv 1:5-8

Verse Before the Gospel Is 61:1 (cited in Lk 4:18)

Gospel Lk 4:16-21

Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up,
and went according to his custom
into the synagogue on the sabbath day.
He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:

            The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
                        because he has anointed me
                        to bring glad tidings to the poor.
            He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
                        and recovery of sight to the blind,
                        to let the oppressed go free,
            and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.

Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
            and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
He said to them,
“Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
 

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