EXODUS 12:1-8, 11-14
The Law for the Passover meal.

A Reading from the Book of Exodus.
¹ In those days: The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, ² “This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. ³ Tell all the congregation of Israel that the tenth day of this month they shall take every man, a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; ⁴ and if the household is too small for the lamb, then a man and his neighbour next to his house shall take according to the number of the persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. ⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; ⁶ and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month. When the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening. ⁷ Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. ⁸ They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

The Passover
¹¹ In this manner you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover. ¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. ¹³ The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ “This day shall be for you a memorial day and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.”

The Word of the LORD.

PSALM 116:12-13, 15, 16bc 17-18 (R. see cf. 1 Cor. 10:16)
℟. Our blessing cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ.

¹² How shall I make a return to the LORD for all the good He has done for me? ¹³ The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the LORD.℟.

¹⁵ Precious in the eyes of the LORD is the death of His faithful ones. ¹⁶ I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; you have loosened my bonds.℟.

¹⁷ A thanksgiving sacrifice I make; I will call on the Name of the LORD, ¹⁸ my vows to the LORD I will fulfil before all His people.℟.

1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26
“As often as you eat this bread and drink the chalice, you proclaim the LORD's death.”

A Reading from the first Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians.
²³ I received from the LORD what I also delivered to you; that the LORD Jesus on the night when He was betrayed took bread; ²⁴ and when He had given thanks, He broke it, and said, “This is My body which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” ²⁵ In the same way also the chalice, after supper, saying, “This chalice 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 chalice, you proclaim the LORD's death until He comes.

The Word of the LORD.

see PSALM 95:7d, 8a
℣.Glory and praise to you, O Christ
℟.Glory and praise to you, O Christ
℣.A new commandment I give to you, says the LORD, that you love one another even as I have loved you.
℟.Glory and praise to you, O Christ

JOHN 13:1-15
“He loved them to the end”

✠ A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet
¹ Before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. ² And during supper when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray Him, 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 rose from supper, laid aside His garments, 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; and Peter said to Him, “LORD, do You wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, ⁷ “What I am doing, you do not know now, but afterward, you will understand.” ⁸ Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part in Me.” ⁹ Simon Peter said to Him, “LORD, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, ¹⁰ “He who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but he is clean all over; and you are clean, but not all of you.” ¹¹ For He knew who was to betray Him; that was why He said, “You are not all clean.”

¹² When He had washed their feet, and taken His garments, and resumed His place, 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 so I am. ¹⁴ If I, then, your LORD and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For, I have given you an example that you also should do as I have done to you.”

The Gospel of the LORD.