A Latin spiritual journey with discerning hearts, from ashes to glory.

Day 43, The Price of Betrayal.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew chapter 26 verses 14 through 25.

One of the 12, the man called Judas Ascariot, went to the chief priests and said,

What are you prepared to give me if I hand him over to you?

They paid him 30 silver pieces,

and from that moment he looked for an opportunity to betray him.

Now, on the first day of unleavened bread,

the disciples came to Jesus to say,

Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?

He replied,

Go to so-and-so in the city and say to him,

The master says, my time is near.

It is at your house that I am keeping Passover with my disciples.

The disciples did what Jesus told them and prepared the Passover.

When evening came, he was at table with the twelve disciples, and while they were eating, he said,

I tell you solemnly, one of you is about to betray me. They were greatly distressed and started asking him in turn. Not I, Lord,

surely. He answered, someone who has dipped his hand into the dish with me will betray me.

The son of man is going to his fate as the scriptures say he will, but alas for that man by whom the

son of man is betrayed.

Better for that man if he had never been born.

Judas, who was to betray him, asked in his turn, not I, Rabbi, surely.

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