22 - Holy Thursday
Chrism Mass

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me;

He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,

To announce a year of favor from the LORD and a day of vindication by our God, to comfort all who mourn;

To place on those who mourn in Zion a diadem instead of ashes,

To give them oil of gladness in place of mourning, a glorious mantle instead of a listless spirit.

You yourselves shall be named priests of the LORD, ministers of our God shall you be called.

I will give them their recompense faithfully, a lasting covenant I will make with them.

Their descendants shall be renowned among the nations, and their offspring among the peoples;

All who see them shall acknowledge them as a race the LORD has blessed.

[Grace to you and peace] from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,

the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth.

To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his Blood,

who has made us into a Kingdom, priests for his God and Father,

to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen.

Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him.

All the peoples of the earth will lament him.

            Yes. Amen.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God,

“the one who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”