Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Betraying The Sacrifice

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 04.13.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Wednesday of Holy Week

Matthew 26:14-25

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus asks his disciples to go into
Jerusalem and prepare a Passover supper.

At the heart of the Passover meal was the eating of a lamb, which had been sacrificed,
in remembrance of the lambs of the original Passover, whose blood had been smeared on the doorposts of the Israelites in Egypt.
Making his Last Supper a Passover meal,
Jesus was signaling the fulfillment of John the Baptist’s prophecy that he,
Jesus, would be the Lamb of God and the definitive sacrifice.

This sacrifice is made sacramentally present at every Mass—not for the sake of God,
who has no need of it, but for our sake.
In the Mass, we participate in the act by which divinity and humanity are reconciled,
and we eat the sacrificed body and drink the poured-out blood of the Lamb of God.

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+++One of the Twelve, who was
called Judas Iscariot,
went to the chief priests and said,
“What are you willing to give me
if I hand him over to you?”
They paid him thirty pieces of and from that time on he looked for
an opportunity to hand him over.

On the first day of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread,
the disciples approached Jesus and said,
“Where do you want us to prepare
for you to eat the Passover?”
He said,
“Go into the city to a certain man
and tell him,
‘The teacher says, "My appointed
time draws near;
in your house I shall celebrate the
Passover with my disciples.”‘“
The disciples then did as Jesus had
ordered,
and prepared the Passover.

When it was evening,
he reclined at table with the Twelve.
And while they were eating, he said,
“Amen, I say to you,
one of you will betray me.”
Deeply distressed at this,
they began to say to him one after another,
“Surely it is not I, Lord?”
He said in reply,
“He who has dipped his hand into the
dish with me
is the one who will betray me.
The Son of Man indeed goes, as it is
written of him,
but woe to that man by whom the Son
of Man is betrayed.
It would be better for that man if
he had never been born.”
Then Judas, his betrayer, said in reply,
“Surely it is not I, Rabbi?”
He answered, “You have said so.”

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