[Propertalk] READINGS for MAUNDY THURSDAY

[Charles Wohlers]

The following are the readings for the Maundy Thursday, April 1, 2010, 
according to the Revised Common (RCL), Episcopal (ECUSA), Roman Catholic, 
Canadian BAS, and the Church of England (Common Worship) lectionaries. All 
readings are taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the 
Bible. Unless noted otherwise, the ECUSA, C of E and Canadian lectionaries 
are identical to the RCL for this day.



OLD TESTAMENT: Exodus 12: 1 - 4, (5 - 10), 11 - 14 (RCL)
                                   Exodus 12: 1 - 14a   (Can. BAS)
                                   Exodus 12: 1 - 8, 11 - 14 (Roman 
Catholic)

Exod 12:1 (NRSV) The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 
This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first 
month of the year for you. 3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on 
the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for 
each household. 4 If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall 
join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in 
proportion to the number of people who eat of it. 5 Your lamb shall be 
without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the 
goats. 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the 
whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. 7 
They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the 
lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the lamb that 
same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread 
and bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted 
over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. 10 You shall let none 
of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you 
shall burn. 11 This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals 
on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. 
It is the passover of the LORD. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt 
that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, 
both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute 
judgments: I am the LORD. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses 
where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague 
shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 This day shall be a 
day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the 
LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual 
ordinance.


PSALM 116: 1 - 2, 12 - 19   (RCL, Roman Catholic)
Psalm 116: 12 - 19   (Can. BAS)

Psal 116:1 (NRSV) I love the LORD, because he has heard
my voice and my supplications.
2 Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

12 What shall I return to the LORD
for all his bounty to me?
13 I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the LORD,
14 I will pay my vows to the LORD
in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
16 O LORD, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the child of your serving girl.
You have loosed my bonds.
17 I will offer to you a thanksgiving sacrifice
and call on the name of the LORD.
18 I will pay my vows to the LORD
in the presence of all his people,
19 in the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Praise the LORD!

Note: Verse numbering in your Psalter may be different from the above.


NEW TESTAMENT: 1 Corinthians 11: 23 - 26 (RCL, Roman Catholic)

1Cor 11:23 (NRSV) For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, 
that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, 
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body that 
is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way he took the 
cup also, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. 
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26 For as often as 
you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he 
comes.


GOSPEL: John 13: 1 - 17, 31b - 35 (RCL)
                  John 13: 1 - 15 (Can. BAS, Roman Catholic)

John 13:1 (NRSV) Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that 
his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having 
loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 The devil 
had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscar'iot to betray 
him. And during supper 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things 
into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, 4 got up 
from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. 5 
Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and 
to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. 6 He came to Simon 
Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" 7 Jesus 
answered, "You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will 
understand." 8 Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet." Jesus 
answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no share with me." 9 Simon Peter said 
to him, "Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" 10 Jesus 
said to him, "One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, 
but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you." 11 For he 
knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, "Not all of you are 
clean."
12 After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to 
the table, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You 
call me Teacher and Lord--and you are right, for that is what I am. 14 So if 
I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one 
another's feet. 15 For I have set you an example, that you also should do as 
I have done to you. 16 Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than 
their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. 17 If 
you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

31 Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been 
glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify 
him in himself and will glorify him at once. 33 Little children, I am with
you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so 
now I say to you, "Where I am going, you cannot come.' 34 I give you a new 
commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also 
should love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my 
disciples, if you have love for one another."