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HOLY COMMUNION

Worship Service

Thursday
March 28, 2024

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17:00

MAUNDY THURSDAY HOLY COMMUNION

Lectionary Theme: Maundy Thursday; Holy Qurbana: Celebration of the Divine plan of salvation

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    1. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

    2. This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.

    3. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household.

    4. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it.

    5. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

    6. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

    7. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

    8. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

    9. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs.

    10. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.

    11. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the passover of the Lord.

    12. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.

    13. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

    14. This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

    15. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day shall be cut off from Israel.

    16. On the first day you shall hold a solemn assembly, and on the seventh day a solemn assembly; no work shall be done on those days; only what everyone must eat, that alone may be prepared by you.

    17. You shall observe the festival of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your companies out of the land of Egypt: you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a perpetual ordinance.

    18. In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you shall eat unleavened bread.

    19. For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether an alien or a native of the land.

    20. You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your settlements you shall eat unleavened bread.

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    1. If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy,

    2. make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

    3. Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.

    4. Let each of you look not to your own interests but to the interests of others.

    5. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

    6. who, though he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

    7. but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, assuming human likeness. And being found in appearance as a human,

    8. he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.

    9. Therefore God exalted him even more highly and gave him the name that is above every other name,

    10. so that at the name given to Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

    11. and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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