Corpus Christi

3Therefore, Moses went and explained to the people all the words of the Lord, as well as the judgments. And all the people responded with one voice: “We will do all the words of the Lord, which he has spoken.” 4Then Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. And rising up in the morning, he built an altar at the base of the mountain, with twelve titles according to the twelve tribes of Israel. 5And he sent youths from the sons of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and they immolated calves as peace-offerings to the Lord. 6And so Moses took one half part of the blood, and he put it into bowls. Then the remaining part he poured over the altar. 7And taking up the book of the covenant, he read it in the hearing of the people, who said: “All that the Lord has spoken, we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8In truth, taking up the blood, he sprinkled it on the people, and he said, “This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has formed with you concerning all these words.”

3What shall I repay to the Lord, for all the things that he has repaid to me?

4I will take up the cup of salvation, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

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6Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his holy ones.

7O Lord, because I am your servant, your servant and the son of your handmaid, you have broken my bonds.

8I will sacrifice to you the sacrifice of praise, and I will invoke the name of the Lord.

9I will repay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people,

11But Christ, standing as the High Priest of future good things, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, one not made by hand, that is, not of this creation, 12entered once into the Holy of Holies, having obtained eternal redemption, neither by the blood of goats, nor of calves, but by his own blood. 13For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the ashes of a calf, when these are sprinkled, sanctify those who have been defiled, in order to cleanse the flesh, 14how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the Holy Spirit has offered himself, immaculate, to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, in order to serve the living God? 15And thus he is the Mediator of the new testament, so that, by his death, he intercedes for the redemption of those transgressions which were under the former testament, so that those who have been called may receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

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.” 16And his disciples departed and went into the city. And they found it just as he had told them. And they prepared the Passover.

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22And while eating with them, Jesus took bread. And blessing it, he broke it and gave it to them, and he said: “Take. This is my body.” 23And having taken the chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank from it. 24And he said to them: “This is my blood of the new covenant, which shall be shed for many. 25Amen I say to you, that I will no longer drink from this fruit of the vine, until that day when I will drink it new in the kingdom of God.” 26And having sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.