--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/09/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 4/09/09 --- [![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/2009/04/09/daily-readings-reflection-for-40909#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 4/09/09 Apr 9, 2009 10:02:25 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 4/09/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Holy Thursday. Exodus 12:1-8,11-14. Psalm 116:12-13.15-16.17-18. I Cor.11:23-26. John 13:1-15. Lectionary # 40: Jesus speaks to us on this last full day of his life and he saves the best of what he has to say and give us for this day.  John, the Evangelist, whom we consider to be the Beloved Disciple is the one who has mulled over his words and handed them on to us.  Jesus says, "I have given you an example, as I have done, so you must do."  These words motivate us and assist us in realizing how great a gift Jesus gives us in the Eucharist. We are led to focus on Jesus' gift--the complete outpouring of himself in selfless love. The Eucharist is life and the gift of love. It is our hope as we celebrate Jesus' Passover meal with his most loved friends, the apostles.  His testimony of love is found in this most striking sentence of the Fourth Gospel:  "Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour has come to pass over from this world to the Father, having loved those who were his own, he loved them to his utmost." (author's translation). This is Jesus' testimony of his love for us and the Eucharist expresses it through the sacred bread and wine which becomes his precious Body and Blood. St. Paul gives us in I Corinthians the earliest words of the Eucharist that Jesus gave us at his "Last Supper." This sacrament has been handed down to us from the Last Supper till now and the end of time.  Paul wrote this tradition in 57 A.D. The whole narrative is beautiful and very challenging. It is found in I Corinthians 11:23-34 and part of it is in our second reading while the first recalls the Exodus' account of the Passover. Paul has not invented these words and their narrative; he has received them, therefore, they were already being remembered and said well before his conversion.They were handed down by those who had gathered with Jesus at the supper mentioned in the Gospels on the day before he died.  The Gospels then in the last half of the first century put the words into their narratives before the Passion and Death of the Lord.  So as Paul says, " Everytime, then, you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes." Psalm 116 is a perfect prayer to help us meditate on these other readings.  We can through reciting it make it our act of thanksgiving for the gift of Jesus' love seen in the Eucharist. The Psalm and its response expresses our love and our participation this evening is our loving response to Jesus' words, his actions, and his gifts to us. 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