First Reading

Isaiah 50:4-7

4The Lord has given me a learned tongue, so that I would know how to uphold with a word, one who has weakened. He rises in the morning, he rises to my ear in the morning, so that I may heed him like a teacher. 5The Lord God has opened my ear. And I do not contradict him. I have not turned back. 6I have given my body to those who strike me, and my cheeks to those who plucked them. I have not averted my face from those who rebuked me and who spit on me. 7The Lord God is my helper. Therefore, I have not been confounded. Therefore, I have set my face like a very hard rock, and I know that I will not be confounded.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 21

8All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head. 9He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. Let him save him because he chooses him. 10For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, my hope from the breasts of my mother. 11I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God. 12Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me. 13Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me. 14They have opened their mouths over me, just like a lion seizing and roaring. 15And so, I have been poured out like water, and all my bones have been scattered. My heart has become like wax, melting in the midst of my chest. 16My strength has dried up like clay, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death. 17For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet. 18They have numbered all my bones. And they have examined me and stared at me. 19They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots. 20But you, O Lord, do not take your help far from me; be attentive to my defense. 21O God, rescue my soul from the spear, and my only one from the hand of the dog. 22Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast. 23I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you. 24You who fear the Lord, praise him. All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him.

Second Reading

Philippians 2:6-11

6who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. 7Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man. 8He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross. 9Because of this, God has also exalted him and has given him a name which is above every name, 10so that, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bend, of those in heaven, of those on earth, and of those in hell, 11and so that every tongue would confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

Gospel

Mark 14:1-15:47

1Now the feast of Passover and of Unleavened Bread was two days away. And the leaders of the priests, and the scribes, were seeking a means by which they might deceitfully seize him and kill him. 2But they said, “Not on the feast day, lest perhaps there may be a tumult among the people.” 3And when he was in Bethania, in the house of Simon the leper, and was reclining to eat, a woman arrived having an alabaster container of ointment, of precious spikenard. And breaking open the alabaster container, she poured it over his head. 4But there were some who became indignant within themselves and who were saying: “What is the reason for this waste of the ointment? 5For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and been given to the poor.” And they murmured against her. 6But Jesus said: “Permit her. What is the reason that you trouble her? She has done a good deed for me. 7For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always. 8But she has done what she could. She has arrived in advance to anoint my body for burial. 9Amen I say to you, wherever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the entire world, the things she has done also shall be told, in memory of her.” 10And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away, to the leaders of the priests, in order to betray him to them. 11And they, upon hearing it, were gladdened. And they promised him that they would give him money. And he sought an opportune means by which he might betray him. 12And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they immolate the Passover, the disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” 13And he sent two of his disciples, and he said to them: “Go into the city. And you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water; follow him. 14And wherever he will have entered, say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says: Where is my dining room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ 15And he will show you a large cenacle, fully furnished. And there, you shall prepare it for us.”