maundy thursday, Year A

​I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.  --John 13:34
 
Three holy days enfold us now in gathering friends and breaking bread,
in cross and font and life renewed: in Christ, God’s first-born from the dead.
 
The mystery hid from ages past is here revealed in word and sign,
for Jesus’ story is our own: new life through death is God’s design.
 
Christ lifted high upon the tree, before you every knee shall bend
and every tongue in praise proclaim: “You are the Holy One. Amen.”
 
Enter into worship.
 
Readings, Maundy Thursday: Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14 † Psalm 116:1–2, 12-19 † 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 † John 13:1-17, 31b-35
 
About the Art: Swanson, John August. Washing of the Feet II, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58580 [retrieved April 6, 2023]. Original source: Estate of John August Swanson, https://www.johnaugustswanson.com/.

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