Monday Propers

Monday in Holy Week Propers

Introit (Psalm 31,10-11.13-15; Psalm 31,9)
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
   my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.
For my life is spent with sorrow and my years with sighing;
   my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.
Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances;
   those who see me in the street flee from me.
For I hear the whispering of many--terror on every side!--
   as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
But I trust in You, O LORD;
   I say: "You are my God."
My times are in Your hand;
   rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
   my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

Isaiah 50,5-10
 The LORD God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward. I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting. But the LORD God helps me; therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame. He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me. Behold, the LORD God helps me; who will declare me guilty? Behold, all of them will wear out like a garment; the moth will eat them up. Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the LORD and rely on his God.

Antiphon
℣  For with You, O God, is the fountain of life;
℟  in Your Light do we see light.

Hebrews 9,11-15
 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have arrived, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of His own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the Living God. Therefore He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Gradual (Hebrews 9,12a.c.15a; Psalm 111,9a)
[Christ] entered once for all into the holy places, by means of His own blood,
 thus securing an eternal redemption.
Therefore He is the Mediator of a new testament,
 so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance.
He sent redemption to His people;
 He has commanded His testament forever.

John 12,1-23
 »Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table. 3 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 4 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (he who was about to betray him), said, 5 “Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it. 7 Jesus said, “Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial. 8 For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”
 9 When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they went out, not only on account of Him but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
 12 The next day the large crowd that had gone to the feast heard that Jesus was going to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who arrives in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written:

 15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;
 behold, your king is arriving,
     sitting on a donkey’s colt!”
       [Zechariah 9,9]

 16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and had been done to Him. 17 The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 18 The reason why the crowd went to meet Him was that they heard He had done this sign. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”
 20 Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 21 So these went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, “The hour has arrived for the Son of Man to be glorified”«

Verse (John 12,23b)
The hour has arrived for the Son of Man to be glorified.

Collect of the Day
 O Almighty God, grant that in the midst of our failures and weaknesses we may be restored through the passion and intercession of Your Only-begotten Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God, now and forever.  Amen.