Exod 11:10-12

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, memorial
Readings of the day on p.1059 and antiphons of the memorial on p.1862,  with the Mass of Our Lady

Entrance Antiphon
Hail, Holy Mother, who gave birth to the King who rules heaven and earth forever.

First Reading: Exodus 11:10-12:14

A reading from the Book of Exodus

In those days:
Moses and Aaron did many wonders before Pharaoh;
and the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart,
and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
“This month shall be for you the beginning of months;
it shall be the first month of the year for you.
Tell all the congregation of Israel that
on the tenth day of this month
they shall take every man a lamb
according to their fathers’ houses,
a lamb for a household;
and if the household is too small for a lamb,
then a man and his neighbour next to his house
shall take according to the number of persons;
according to what each can eat
you shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old;
you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats;
and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month,
when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill their lambs in the evening.
Then they shall take some of the blood
and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel
of the houses in which they eat them.
They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted;
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted,
its head with its legs and its inner parts.
And you shall let none of it remain until the morning,
anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
In this manner you shall eat it:
your loins girded,
your sandals on your feet,
and your staff in your hand;
and you shall eat it in haste.
It is the Lord’s Passover.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night,
and I will strike all the first-born in the land of Egypt,
both man and beast;
and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments:
I am the Lord.
The blood shall be a sign for you,
upon the houses where you are;
and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,
and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you,
when I strike the land of Egypt.

“This day shall be for you a memorial day,
and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord;
throughout your generations
you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.”

The Word of the Lord

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 116:12-13.15&16bc.17-18 (R. 13)

Let us now pray the Responsorial Psalm:

R/. The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the name of the Lord.

How can I repay the Lord
for all his goodness to me?
The cup of salvation I will raise;
I will call on the name of the Lord.

How precious in the eyes of the Lord
is the death of his faithful.
Your servant  am I, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosened my bonds.

A thanksgiving sacrifice I make;
I will call on the name of the Lord.
My vows to the Lord I will fulfil
before all his people.

R/. The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the name of the Lord.

Please stand for the Gospel

Alleluia, alleluia.
My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord;
and I know them, and they follow me.
Alleluia.

Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew

At that time:
Jesus went through the grainfields on the sabbath;
his disciples were hungry,
and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him,
“Look, your disciples are doing
what is not lawful to do on the sabbath.”

He said to them,
“Have you not read what David did, when he was hungry,
and those who were with him:
how he entered the house of God
and ate the showbread,
which it was not lawful for him to eat
nor for those who were with him,
but only for the priests?
Or have you not read in the law how on the sabbath
the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?
I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
And if you had known what this means,
‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’
you would not have condemned the guiltless.
For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”

The Gospel of the Lord

Communion Antiphon
Blessed is the womb of the Virgin Mary, which bore the Son of the eternal Father.