The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Solemnity

Book of Exodus

24,3-8.

When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all answered with one voice, "We will do everything that the LORD has told us."
Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD and, rising early the next day, he erected at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.
Then, having sent certain young men of the Israelites to offer holocausts and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD,
Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar.
Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, "All that the LORD has said, we will heed and do."
Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words of his."

Psalms

116(115),12-13.15-16.17-18.

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.
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.
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.

Letter to the Hebrews

9,11-15.

Brothers and sisters: when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation,
he entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer's ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed,
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

14,12-16.22-26.

On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
He sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water. Follow him.
Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there."
The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover.
While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is my body."
Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many.
Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."
Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

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Sts. Peter & Marcellinus(Martyrs (+ c. 304))

SAINTS MARCELLINUS, PETER Martyrs (+ c. 304) During Diocletian's persecution, Pope Damasus received information about the martyrdom of Saints Marcellinus and Peter. He was told about them by their executioner. The Saints were beheaded, but received the beatific vision, and joined the Church Triumphant in heaven.The saints are happy in heaven because they followed Christ.They rejoice with him for ever because they shed their blood for love of him.(Entrance antiphon)

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Sts. Pothinus(Sanctus, Attalus, Blandina, & the other Martyrs of Lyons (+ 177))

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SAINTS POTHINUS, Bishop, SANCTUS, ATTALUS, BLANDINA, and the other Martyrs of Lyons (+ 177) After the miraculous victory obtained through the prayers of Christians under Marcus Aurelius in 174, the Church enjoyed a kind of peace, though it was often disturbed by popular commotions or the superstitious fury of certain governors. This appears from the violent persecution that was raised in Vienne and Lyons three years after the aforesaid victory, while St. Pothinus was Bishop of Lyons and St. Irenæus, who had been sent there by St. Polycarp out of Asia, was a priest. Many of the principal Christians were brought before the Roman governor. Among them were a slave, Blandina, and her mistress, also a Christian. They were tormented a whole day through, but they bore it all until the executioners gave up and confessed themselves outdone. Red-hot plates were held to the sides of Sanctus, a deacon of Vienne, until his body became one great sore, and he looked no longer like a man. In the midst of his tortures, he was "bedewed and strengthened by the stream of heavenly water which flows from the side of Christ." Meanwhile, many confessors were imprisoned, along with those who had been terrified into apostasy. The pagans marked the joyfulness and courage of Christian martyrs and also the misery of apostates. The faithful confessors brought back many who had fallen away, and the Church, "that Virgin Mother," rejoiced when she saw her children live again in Christ. Some Christians died in prison and the rest were executed. St. Blandina was martyred last of all. She was executed after encouraging her younger brother seeing him put to death.

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