
Remember your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify your servants, for whom Christ your Son, by the shedding of His blood, established the Paschal Mystery.
The Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus
“After withdrawing about a stone’s throw from them and kneeling, he prayed, saying, ‘Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done.’” (Luke 22:41-42)
Holy Thursday: The Lord’s Last Supper
O God, who have called us to participate in this most sacred Supper, in which your Only Begotten Son, when about to to hand himself over to death, entrusted to the Church a sacrifice new for all eternity, the banquet of his love, grant, we pray, that we may draw from so great a mystery, the fullness of charity and of life. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.