April 2, 2026
Have a good day!
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Holy Thursday-Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper
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☆ Gospel: John 13:1-15
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Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.
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So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him,
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Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,
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Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him.
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Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him.
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So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?
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And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come.
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Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me.
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Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head.
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Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.
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(He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean.)
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Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and said to them, Do you see what I have done to you?
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You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.
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If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.
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I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you.
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☆ Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
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Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.
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Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:
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And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man.
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Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
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Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.
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Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.
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And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.
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And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.
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For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.
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And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt.
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And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.
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☆ 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
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For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,
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And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.
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In the same way, with the cup, after the meal, he said, This cup is the new testament in my blood: do this, whenever you take it, in memory of me.
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For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.
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