Holy Thursday
Gathering Song:
Penitential Act: Confiteor
-AND/OR-
Lord have Mercy,
Christ have Mercy,
Lord have Mercy
GLORIA
Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of good will.
For you alone are the Holy One,
Liturgy of the Word
1st Reading Ex 12:1-8, 11-14
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt,
This month shall stand at the
head of your calendar;
you shall reckon it the
first month of the year.
Tell the whole community of Israel:
On the tenth of this month
every one of your families
must procure for itself a lamb,
one apiece for each household.
If a family is too small for a whole lamb,
it shall join the nearest
household in procuring one
and shall share in the lamb
in proportion to the number of persons
who partake of it.
The lamb must be a year-old
male and without blemish.
You may take it from either
the sheep or the goats.
You shall keep it until
the fourteenth day of this month,
and then, with the whole assembly
of Israel present,
it shall be slaughtered
during the evening twilight.
They shall take some of its blood
and apply it to the
two doorposts and the lintel
of every house in which
they partake of the lamb.
That same night they
shall eat its roasted flesh
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
This is how you are to eat it:
with your loins girt,
sandals on your feet
and your staff in hand,
you shall eat like
those who are in flight.
It is the Passover of the LORD.
For on this same night
I will go through Egypt,
striking down every firstborn of the land,
both man and beast,
and executing judgment
on all the gods of Egypt—I, the LORD!
But the blood will mark
the houses where you are.
Seeing the blood,
I will pass over you;
thus, when I strike
the land of Egypt,
no destructive blow
will come upon you.
This day shall be a
memorial feast for you,
which all your generations
shall celebrate
with pilgrimage to the LORD,
as a perpetual institution.
The Word of the Lord,
~Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18
R. Our blessing-cup is a communion
with the Blood of Christ.
How shall I make a return to the LORD
for all the good he has done for me?
The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
R. Our blessing-cup is a communion
with the Blood of Christ.
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
R. Our blessing-cup is a communion
with the Blood of Christ.
To you will I offer sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
R. Our blessing-cup is a communion
with the Blood of Christ.
2nd Reading 1 Cor 11:23-26
I received from the Lord what
I also handed on to you,
that the Lord Jesus,
on the night he was handed over,
took bread, and,
after he had given thanks,
broke it and said,
“This is my body that is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”
In the same way also the cup,
after supper, saying,
“This cup is the
new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it,
in remembrance of me.”
For as often as you eat this bread
and drink the cup,
you proclaim the death
of the Lord until he comes.
The Word of the Lord,
~Thanks be to God
Gospel Acclamation Jn 13:34
R. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of endless glory!
I give you a new commandment, says the Lord:
love one another as I have loved you.
Gospel Jn 13:1-15
Before the feast of Passover,
Jesus knew that his hour had come
to pass from this world to the Father.
He loved his own in the world
and he loved them to the end.
The devil had already induced Judas,
son of Simon the Iscariot,
to hand him over.
So, during supper,
fully aware that the Father had put
everything into his power
and that he had come from God
and was returning to God,
he rose from supper and
took off his outer garments.
He took a towel
and tied it around his waist.
Then he poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples’ feet
and dry them with the towel
around his waist.
He came to Simon Peter,
who said to him,
“Master, are you going to wash my feet?”
Jesus answered and said to him,
“What I am doing,
you do not understand now,
but you will understand later.”
Peter said to him,
“You will never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered him,
“Unless I wash you,
you will have no inheritance with me.”
Simon Peter said to him,
“Master, then not only my feet,
but my hands and head as well.”
Jesus said to him,
“Whoever has bathed has no need
except to have his feet washed,
for he is clean all over;
so you are clean, but not all.”
For he knew who would betray him;
for this reason, he said,
“Not all of you are clean.”
So when he had washed their feet
and put his garments back on
and reclined at table again,
he said to them,
“Do you realize what
I have done for you?
You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’
and rightly so, for indeed I am.
If I, therefore,
the master and teacher,
have washed your feet,
you ought to wash
one another’s feet.
I have given you
a model to follow,
so that as I have done for you,
you should also do.”
The Gospel of the Lord,
The Washing of the Feet As I Have Done For You
through Him all things were made.
Liturgy of the Eucharist
Eucharistic Acclamations:
R: Blessed be God forever
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R: May the Lord accept the sacrifice
at your hands for the
praise and glory of his name,
for our good
and the good of all His holy Church
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The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, Who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy Will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil. Amen.
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Sign of Peace
Communion Song:
My Jesus, I believe that you are present
in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things,
and I desire to receive you into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there
And unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.
Vocations Prayer
Lord Jesus, You said to your disciples,
"I am the way the truth and the life."
Give young people the gift of discernment,
to find their way and embrace their true vocation,
the life for which you have created them.
In all that lies before them, help them discern a life
that is pleasing to you,
whether to Christian marriage,
to priesthood,
or the consecrated religious life.
Send your Holy Spirit to inspire them.
Grant them the grace to embrace
a life of joyful service.
Fulfill their desires to make a
generous gift of themselves to others,
after your example.
Give them the loving support of family and friends
as they prayerfully discern their vocation in this life.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
~ Amen