Holy Thursday Worship Aid

There are four parts to Lectio Divina...
1. Lectio (reading)
An attentive, slow, repetitious recitation
of a short passage of scripture.
“looking on Holy Scripture with all one’s
will and wit”
Lectio Divina
2. Meditatio (meditation)
An effort to understand the passage and
apply it to my own life.
“a studious searching with the mind to
know what was before concealed”
3. Oratio (prayer)
Engaging or talking with God about the
passage.
“a devout desiring of the heart to get
what is good and avoid what is evil”
4. Contemplatio (contemplation)
Allowing oneself to be absorbed in the
words of God as the Holy Spirit draws us
into His presence through scripture.
“the lifting up of the heart to God tasting
somewhat of the heavenly sweetness”
Try this form of prayer now with tonight’s gospel
gospel of John
Chapter 13
The Washing of the Disciples’ Feet
1 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.
2 The devil had already induced* Judas,
son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over.
So, during supper,
3 fully aware that the Father had put
everything into his power and that he had
come from God and was returning to God,
4 he rose from supper and took off his
outer garments. He took a towel and tied it
around his waist.
5 Then he poured water into a basin and
began to wash the disciples’ feetd and dry
them with the towel around his waist.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him,
“Master, are you going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I
am doing, you do not understand now, but
you will understand later.”
8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my
feet.” Jesus answered him, “Unless I wash
you, you will have no inheritance with me.”
9 Simon Peter said to him, “Master, then
not only my feet, but my hands and head
as well.”
10 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.”
11 For he knew who would betray him; for
this reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
12 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?
13 You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’ and
rightly so, for indeed I am.
14 If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have
washed your feet, you ought to wash one
another’s feet.
15 I have given you a model to follow, so that
as I have done for you, you should also do.
16 Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is
greater than his master nor any messenger
greater than the one who sent him.
17 If you understand this, blessed are you if
you do it.
18 I am not speaking of all of you. I know
those whom I have chosen. But so that the
scripture might be fulfilled, ‘The one who
ate my food has raised his heel against me.’
19 From now on I am telling you before it
happens, so that when it happens you may
believe that I AM.
20 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever
receives the one I send receives me, and
whoever receives me receives the one who
sent me.”
Announcement of Judas’s Betrayal
21 When he had said this, Jesus was deeply
troubled and testified, “Amen, amen, I
say to you, one of you will betray me.”
22 The disciples looked at one another, at a
loss as to whom he meant.
23 One of his disciples, the one whom
Jesus loved, was reclining at Jesus’ side.
24 So Simon Peter nodded to him to find
out whom he meant.
25 He leaned back against Jesus’ chest
and said to him, “Master, who is it?”
26 Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom
I hand the morsel after I have dipped
it.” So he dipped the morsel and [took it
and] handed it to Judas, son of Simon the
Iscariot.
27 After he took the morsel, Satan entered
him. So Jesus said to him, “What
you are going to do, do quickly.”
28 [Now] none of those reclining at table
realized why he said this to him.
29 Some thought that since Judas kept
the money bag, Jesus had told him, “Buy
what we need for the feast,” or to give
something to the poor.
30 So he took the morsel and left at once.
And it was night.
The New Commandment
31 When he had left, Jesus said,* “Now is
the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified
in him.
32 [If God is glorified in him,] God will also
glorify him in himself, and he will glorify
him at once.
33 My children, I will be with you only a
little while longer. You will look for me, and
as I told the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot
come,’ so now I say it to you.
34 I give you a new commandment:* love
one another. As I have loved you, so you
also should love one another.
35 This is how all will know that you are my
disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Peter’s Denial Predicted
36 Simon Peter said to him, “Master, where
are you going?” Jesus answered [him],
“Where I am going, you cannot follow me
now, though you will follow later.”
37 Peter said to him, “Master, why can’t I follow
you now? I will lay down my life for you.”
38 Jesus answered, “Will you lay down
your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you,
the cock will not crow before you deny me
three times.”
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