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    Invitation to Confession
    Our Lord Jesus Christ says:
    'If you love me, keep my commandments.'
    'Unless I wash you, you have no part in me.'
    Let us confess to almighty God our sins against his love,
    and ask him to cleanse us.
   
cf John 14.15; 13.8
    Gospel Acclamation
    Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
    I give you a new commandment, says the Lord:
    Love one another as I have loved you. 
   
cf John 13.34
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  Praise to you, O Christ, King of eternal glory.
     
    Introduction to the Peace
    Jesus says: 'Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.
    Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.'
   
cf John 14.27
       
    Eucharistic Prefaces  
     
    Short Preface (contemporary language)
    And now we give you thanks
    because, having loved his own who were in the world,
    he loved them to the end;
    and on the night before he suffered,
    sitting at table with his disciples,
    he instituted these holy mysteries,
    that we, redeemed by his death
          and restored to life by his resurrection,
    might be partakers of his divine nature.
     
    Short Preface (traditional language)
    And now we give thee thanks
    because, having loved his own who were in the world,
    he loved them to the end;
    and on the night before he suffered,
    sitting at table with his disciples,
    he instituted these holy mysteries,
    that we, redeemed by his death
          and restored to life by his resurrection,
    might be partakers of his divine nature.
     
    Extended Preface for use with Eucharistic Prayers A, B and E
    It is indeed right to give you thanks,
    Father most holy, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
    For on this night he girded himself with a towel
    and, taking the form of a servant,
    washed the feet of his disciples.
    He gave us a new commandment
    that we should love one another as he has loved us.
    Knowing that his hour had come,
    in his great love he gave this supper to his disciples
    to be a memorial of his passion,
    that we might proclaim his death until he comes again,
    and feast with him in his kingdom.
    Therefore earth unites with heaven
    to sing a new song of praise;
    we too join with angels and archangels
    as they proclaim your glory without end:
     
    There is no blessing at the end of the Maundy Thursday liturgy.
     
    Additional material in President's Edition
     
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