--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/06/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/06/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/04/06/daily-readings-reflection-for-40609#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 4/06/09 Apr 6, 2009 1:00:09 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 4/06/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Monday of Holy Week. Scriptures: Isaiah 42:1-7. Psalm 27:1.2.3.13-14. John 12:1-11. Lectionary #258: The Evangelists have meditated upon these last days of Jesus while remembering some of the poems of the Suffering Servant of God found in the prophet Isaiah or in what we call II Isaiah. They resonate with the sufferings and thoughts that seem to be those of Jesus as we carefully listen to them. Today's selection is a good summary of some of the things Jesus accomplished and preached during his life. The show us his spirit and his effectiveness in what he said and did in the last months of his ministry. We are being prepared for his suffering, death, and resurrection through all of the liturgical readings this week and they go backe to the things most deeply remembered by the Evangelists. The prophetic readings and the psalm with its response are carefully following the spirit of this last week in Jesus' historical life. John tells us that it is now six days before the Passover. Jesus probably retires each night at the home of Lazarus whom he has recently raised from the dead and the sisters of Lazarus are there, Martha and Mary. He needs to have such leisure, rest, and experience some warm hospitality after having preached and confronted those who gathered to listen to him near the temple. Mary now becomes the main person in this short account. She anoints the feet of Jesus with a precious and costly genuine aromatic (a fragrant ointment of the ancients). She does this in Jesus' mind as a preparation for his death and burial. She is concerned about his tiredness and his wearied feet; it is an act of love in her mind. Judas, who is envious and jealous is just the opposite. He is more concerned in selling such an ointment so that he could have some reserves for himself. He is not in the same frame of mind of Mary and her sister nor of Lazarus. Yet, he is the one who will perpetrate the handing over of Jesus to the leaders and then to the Romans for crucifixion. We are therefore led to be with Mary and her brother and sister as we too prepare ourselves for the sacred events that are soon upon us. 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