[Propertalk] READINGS for MAUNDY THURSDAY

Sun Apr 14 21:03:27 EDT 2019

The following are the readings for the Maundy Thursday, April 18, 
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 - 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)

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 (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."

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chadwohl at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA