Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Liturgical Season: 
III The Season of Great Fast
Special Significance: 
Tuesday of the Holy Week

Heb 5:1-10

1* Every high priest is taken from among men and made their representative before God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.* 2He is able to deal patiently* with the ignorant and erring, for he himself is beset by weakness 3and so, for this reason, must make sin offerings for himself as well as for the people.a 4No one takes this honor upon himself but only when called by God, just as Aaron was.b 5In the same way, it was not Christ who glorified himself in becoming high priest, but rather the one who said to him:

“You are my son;

this day I have begotten you”;c

6just as he says in another place:*

“You are a priest forever

according to the order of Melchizedek.”d

7In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death,* and he was heard because of his reverence.e 8Son though he was,* he learned obedience from what he suffered;f 9and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,g 10declared by God high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.h

Jn 12:27-36

27“I am troubled* now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.u 28Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”v 29The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”w 30Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours.x 31Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world* will be driven out.y 32And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.”z 33He said this indicating the kind of death he would die. 34So the crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever.* Then how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”a 35Jesus said to them, “The light will be among you only a little while. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where he is going.b 36While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of the light.”c