First Reading

Genesis 3:9-15, 20

9And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: “Where are you?” 10And he said, “I heard your voice in Paradise, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and so I hid myself.” 11He said to him, “Then who told you that you were naked, if you have not eaten of the tree from which I instructed you that you should not eat?” 12And Adam said, “The woman, whom you gave to me as a companion, gave to me from the tree, and I ate.” 13And the Lord God said to the woman, “Why have you done this?” And she responded, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 14And the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life. 15I will put enmities between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring. She will crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel.” 16To the woman, he also said: “I will multiply your labors and your conceptions. In pain shall you give birth to sons, and you shall be under your husband’s power, and he shall have dominion over you.” 17Yet truly, to Adam, he said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, from which I instructed you that you should not eat, cursed is the land that you work. In hardship shall you eat from it, all the days of your life. 18Thorns and thistles shall it produce for you, and you shall eat the plants of the earth. 19By the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return to the earth from which you were taken. For dust you are, and unto dust you shall return.” 20And Adam called the name of his wife, ‘Eve,’ because she was the mother of all the living.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 86

1A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains: 2the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob. 3Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God. 4I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there. 5Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her. 6The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her. 7For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.

Gospel

John 19:25-34

25And standing beside the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, and Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. 26Therefore, when Jesus had seen his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son.” 27Next, he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour, the disciple accepted her as his own. 28After this, Jesus knew that all had been accomplished, so in order that the Scripture might be completed, he said, “I thirst.” 29And there was a container placed there, full of vinegar. Then, placing a sponge full of vinegar around hyssop, they brought it to his mouth. 30Then Jesus, when he had received the vinegar, said: “It is consummated.” And bowing down his head, he surrendered his spirit. 31Then the Jews, because it was the preparation day, so that the bodies would not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a great day), they petitioned Pilate in order that their legs might be broken, and they might be taken away. 32Therefore, the soldiers approached, and, indeed, they broke the legs of the first one, and of the other who was crucified with him. 33But after they had approached Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34Instead, one of the soldiers opened his side with a lance, and immediately there went out blood and water.