Maundy Thursday

EPISTLE: 1 Corinthians 11:20-32

Lesson from the Epistle of Blessed Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord’s supper. 

For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry and another is drunk.

 

What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not. 

For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, 

And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. 

In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. 

For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. 

Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. 

 

But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. 

For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. 

Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. 

But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 

But whilst we are judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we be not condemned with this world.

GOSPEL: John 13:1-15

Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 

And when supper was done, (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him,) 

Knowing that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and goeth to God; 

He riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments, and having taken a towel, girded himself. 

After that, he putteth water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. 

He cometh therefore to Simon Peter. And Peter saith to him: Lord, dost thou wash my feet 

Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. 

Peter saith to him: Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me. 

Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. 

Jesus saith to him: He that is washed, needeth not but to wash his feet, but is clean wholly. And you are clean, but not all. 

For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said: You are not all clean. 

Then after he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, being set down again, he said to them: Know you what I have done to you? 

You call me Master, and Lord; and you say well, for so I am. 

f then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also.

CREDO.