Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Gospel: Maundy Thursday, (Holy Thursday)

The actual Latin source is Codex Sangallensis 56,
but this is believed to be an ultra-faithful copy of Victor's Codex Fuldensis Gospel.

The Gospel as in the Codex Fuldensis Gospel: Maundy Thursday
Using data publicly available from:
http://www.liturgyoffice.org.uk/Calendar/2009/Apr09.shtml
and The Sunday Missal to cross-check.
The Gospel: John 13: 1 - 15
(9th-Apr-2009) Maundy Thursday

Now he showed how perfect his love was.
The account found here is embodied in the beginning of the capitulum following. It is taken entirely from St. John’s Gospel, but some verses, namely, vv 2 and 3 have been deliberately omited. The numbering, and divisions of the paragraphs in St Gall and Fuldensis here differ, but the text is the same.

CLIIII. Ubi Ihesus lavit pedes discipulorum.
(Where Jesus washes the feet of the disciples.)

155: 1
Before the festival day of the pasch,
Jesus knowing that his hour was come,
that he should pass out of this world to the Father:
having loved his own who were in the world,
he loved them unto the end.
2
He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and,
having taken a towel, girded himself.
After that, he putteth water into a basin
and began to wash the feet of the disciples
and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
3
He cometh therefore to Simon Peter.
And Peter saith to him:
Lord, dost thou wash my feet?
Jesus answered and said to him:
What I do, thou knowest not now;
but thou shalt know hereafter.
4
Peter saith to him:
Thou shalt never wash my feet,
Jesus answered him:
If I wash thee not, thou shalt have no part with me.
5
Simon Peter saith to him:
Lord, not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.
6
Jesus saith to him:
He that is washed needeth not but to wash his feet,
but is clean wholly.
7
And you are clean, but not all.
For he knew who he was that would betray him; therefore he said:
You are not all clean.

156: 1
Then after he had washed their feet and taken his garments,
being set down again, he said to them:
2
Know you what I have done for you? You call me Master and Lord.
And you say well: for so I am.
If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet;
you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
3
For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, so you do also.

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