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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The following are the readings for the Maundy
Thursday, April 21, 2011, 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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>OLD TESTAMENT: Exodus 12: 1 - 4, (5 - 10), 11 - 14
(RCL)<BR>
Exodus 12: 1 - 8, 11 - 14 (Roman Catholic)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>PSALM 116: 1 - 2, 12 - 19 (all)</DIV>
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<DIV>Psal 116:1 (NRSV) I love the LORD, because he has heard<BR>my voice and my
supplications.<BR>2 Because he inclined his ear to me,<BR>therefore I will call
on him as long as I live.</DIV>
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<DIV>12 What shall I return to the LORD<BR>for all his bounty to me?<BR>13 I
will lift up the cup of salvation<BR>and call on the name of the LORD,<BR>14 I
will pay my vows to the LORD<BR>in the presence of all his people.<BR>15
Precious in the sight of the LORD<BR>is the death of his faithful ones.<BR>16 O
LORD, I am your servant;<BR>I am your servant, the child of your serving
girl.<BR>You have loosed my bonds.<BR>17 I will offer to you a thanksgiving
sacrifice<BR>and call on the name of the LORD.<BR>18 I will pay my vows to the
LORD<BR>in the presence of all his people,<BR>19 in the courts of the house of
the LORD,<BR>in your midst, O Jerusalem.<BR>Praise the LORD!</DIV>
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<DIV>Note: Verse numbering in your Psalter may be different from the
above.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>NEW TESTAMENT: 1 Corinthians 11: 23 - 26 (all)</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>GOSPEL: John 13: 1 - 17, 31b - 35
(RCL)<BR>
John 13: 1 - 15 (Roman Catholic)</DIV>
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<DIV>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."<BR>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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<BR>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."</DIV>
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<DIV>Chad Wohlers<BR>Woodbury, Vermont USA<BR><A
href="mailto:chadwohl@satucket.com">chadwohl@satucket.com</A><BR><A
href="mailto:cwohlers@bridgew.edu">cwohlers@bridgew.edu</A><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>