Fr. Mark's Holy Thursday Homily
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2024
- Holy Thursday -Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
Lectionary: 39
Reading I
Ex 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 firstborn 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.”
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18.
R. (cf. 1 Cor 10:16) Our blessing-cup is a 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. Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
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. Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.
Reading II
1 Cor 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.
Verse Before the Gospel
Jn 13:34
I give you a new commandment, says the Lord:
love one another as I have loved you.
Gospel
Jn 13:1-15
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.” 
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Amen. 🙏🏿
God bless you Fr. Mark for your work and your passion as a priest.
God bless Fr. Mark. Listening your beautiful homily. Thank you. From Portland, Oregon
Thank you Fr. Mark...and may the Lord keep you strong and true to your call as a Priest. We pray for you and all Priests.
What a beautiful priest!
God bless you Father Mark, watching your homilies all the way from Sydney, Australia. I listen to you every week. Your passion, compassion and dedication to your vocation and Church is inspirational. God bless you always as you fight the good fight
What an amazing teaching on the Eucharist 🙏🏼 Thank you ✝️
God bless you Dear Rev. Fr. Mark. We were blessed to have you in our Parish.
Thank you Fr Mark for being a Father to them and to all of us around the world and here in Sydney, Australia too! 🇦🇺
Beautiful homily!❤
Thanks Father. Made me weep. I'll say a prayer today for all the priests worldwide, thanks for all your sacrifices!
A wonderful homily and so well-explained. Thank you Fr Mark and thank you for answering the call to priesthood. I listen frequently to your homilies from Ireland
Very powerful sermon Fr.Mark. Thank you for the powerful reminder
Indeed, we thank God for every priest. You are each a gift to us, your flock.
Thank you for becoming a priest. ❤
Happy Easter Fr. Mark & Thanks you so much for the very nice homily!🙏❤️👏🌹🇨🇦
Thank you Fr. Mark! I always look forward to hearing your homilies! You seem to know what the people need to hear!
Great Homily
May God continually bless you
"For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life. Therefore I say to the Israelites, “None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner residing among you eat blood.”
“Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life..."
The life is in the blood and Jesus instructs to eat and drink his body and blood.
Prayers for our Protestant brothers who walk away from Christ like some of his disciples who found this a hardteaching.
God bless.
Love to listen to your Homilies,Thank you,Father Mark.
thank you Fr Mark 🙏❤️i go to the church for mass and to commune with my God in the Holy Communion
but still wanted to listen to your inspiring homilies which strengthens our faitj
you are a blessing from GOD 🙏🙏🙏🙏
God bless you, Father Mark. I always listen to your homilies. Thank you! 😊
God bless you father🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for your service and being our Spiritual Father and Guide…May the Lord Hold you in the Palm of His HAND.
Anyone have a reference for the poem he reads at the end?
Just for a reminder: Death came to earth because of our sins. This life was created without death.
We don't celebrate death. We don't live for death. Jesus did not come to die. He did not want to die. He even prayed to the Father to stay with us here. It was not the Father who chost his death. It was humanity. With free will.
In line with these thoughts on priesthood: it is not the Father's will for you priests to suffer more than you can bear. It is not His will for you to die inside in solitude. It is not His will not to enjoy life. It is the choice of humans. With free will they put you to suffer. And they think, it is ok, because Jesus suffered too.
I don't think it is ok to suffer. It is not. Jesus had already suffered enough and He keeps on suffeing within our priests. And it is not how it was supposed to be. Priests are not here to lay down their life for us to die, priests were supposed to live, and so serve us.
May the Lord give the grace to everyone to see it: Our God is the God of life, not the God of death.
His description of the sacrifice of the lamb makes we realise what utter nonsense all this is. What kind of god would want the suffering and blood of dead life. Garbage God.
I wonder, do you have kids? What sacrifices have you made for them? Sacrifice is love. One of the great deceptions of modernity is that love is some sort of emotional attachment. Love is willing the best in another and sacrificing to help that person attain that.