Philip said to him: ‘Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us.’

Jesus said to him: ‘For such a long time I have been with you all, but you have not come to  know me, Philip, have you?’ The one who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, “Show us the Father?” Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you I do not say from myself.  The Father staying in me, does his works. Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. But if, not believe because of those works. 

Truly, truly I tell you, the one who believes in me- that one will do the works which I do and they will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. And  whatever you ask in my name I will do it, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.  If you ask me anything, in my name, I will do it.’

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great

Do not let your heart be troubled.  

You all believe in God and you believe in me. 

In my Father’s house there are many rooms. If not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you all? And when I go and  prepare a place for you all, I will come and will take you to my Father’s house, so that where I am you will be too. 

And you know the way to where I am going.

Thomas said to him:  ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?’

Jesus said to him: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life. Nobody comes to the Father except by me. If you have known me, you will also know my Father, and from now on you know him, and you have seen him.

Teach us, good Lord,
to serve thee as thou deservest;
to give and not to count the cost;
to fight and not to heed the wounds;
to toil and not to seek for rest;
to labour and not to ask for any reward,
save that of knowing that we do thy will,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

St Ignatius

Simon Peter said to him: ‘Lord, where are you going?’

Jesus answered:  ‘Where I am going, you cannot follow me now. But you will follow later.’

Peter said to him: ‘Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.’

Jesus replied: ‘Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you: the cock will not crow until you deny me three times’.

Grant, Lord,
that we may hold to you without parting,
worship you without wearying,
serve you without failing;
faithfully seek you,
happily find you,
and forever possess you,
the only God,blessed now and for ever.
Amen

St Anselm

So when he went out, Jesus said:

‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified [[by the Father]],
and God in him.
If God has revealed his glory in him
God will also  glorify him in himself,
and he will glorify him at once. 

Little children, I am with you for only a little while longer.
You will seek me,
and just as I said to the Jewish leaders
“Where I go to you cannot come”,
now I say to you as well.

I give you a new command:
love one another
–  as I have loved you,
you too are to love one another. 
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another. 

Having  said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit and bore witness and said: ‘Truly, truly I say to you all that one of you will betray me.’

The disciples looked at one another, confused over which one he was talking about. 

One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining  at the table close beside Jesus. So Simon Peter nodded to him, to ask who it might be that he was talking about. So accordingly leaning back upon Jesus’s chest, he said to him ‘Lord, who is it?’

Jesus answered ‘He is the one for whom I will dip the piece of bread and I will give it to him.’

So he dipped the piece of bread and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son. 

And after [Judas took] the bread, the Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to him ‘Do quickly what you must do.

’ None of those reclining  at the table knew why he said this to him. For some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus had said to him ‘Buy the things we need for the Festival’ or that he should give something to the poor. 

So taking the piece of bread, immediately he left . It was night. 

I speak not about all of you –  I know the ones I have chosen – but in order that the Scripture is fulfilled – ‘The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.’ I tell you –  from now on – before it happens –  so that you will believe when it happens, that I am. 

Truly, truly I say to you, anyone who receives the one whom I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me.  

O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

(unknown)

So when he had washed their feet he took up his clothes and reclined at the table again, he said to them: ‘Do you know what I have done for you? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’, and you say rightly for I am. So, if I – Lord and Teacher – wash your feet, you too should wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example so that just as I did for you, you do as well. 

Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than their master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent them.

If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

He came to Simon Peter. He said to him ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’

Jesus answered ‘You do not know what I am doing now, but you will know after these things.’ 

Peter said ‘You will never ever wash my feet.’

Jesus answered him ‘Unless I wash you, you have no part with me. ‘

Simon said to him, ‘Lord, not only my feet, but also hands and head!’

Jesus said to him, ‘Someone who has been bathed does not need to have their feet washed, but is wholly clean. And you [all] are clean, but definitely not every one of you. For he knew his betrayer. Because of this he said ‘Definitely not every one of you is clean.’

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Before the Passover festival ,
Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world
[and go] to the Father;
having loved his own who were in the world
he loved them to the last. 

During supper,
the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray  him,
knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands
and knowing that he had come from God,
and was going back to God, 

he rose from the supper,
put aside his garments,
taking a towel,
and wrapped it around himself.

Then he poured water into the basin
and began to wash his disciples’ feet
and  wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert

Jesus proclaimed: 

The person who believes in me
does not only believe in me,
but principally in the one who sent me.

And the one who sees me
Sees the one who sent me. 

I have come into the world as light
so that everyone who believes in me
Should not remain in the darkness. 

And if someone hears my words,
And does not keep them
I do not judge them.

For I have not come to judge the world.
But to save the world. 

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words
has a judge. 

The word which I have spoken
– that judges them on the last day. 

Because I have not spoken on my own authority,
but the one who sent me, my Father himself,  has given a command
– what to say and how to say it. 
And I know that his command leads to resurrection life. 

So what I speak, I speak just as  the Father has said.

O Love, O God who created me, in your love recreate me.
O Love, who redeemed me,
fill up in me whatever part of your love
has fallen into neglect within me.
O Love, O God, who first loved me,
grant that with my whole heart,
and with my whole soul,
and with my whole strength,
I may love you.

Gertrude the Great