Maundy Thursday Worship

Maundy Thursday

On-Line Worship Service (order of worship below)
April 9, 2020, 7:30 PM

Zoom Link
ID #942-321-107
Password: 11721
 

To participate in the service, please have the following with you:
A lit candle
Communion elements: bread and juice or wine

On Maundy Thursday we commemorate Jesus’ last supper and his arrest. By remembering the promise of the meal and the pain of the arrest we prepare ourselves to celebrate Easter. The service includes communion and the Tenebrae, a traditional reading of the final events of Jesus’ life with the extinguishing of candles.

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Order of Worship
 
April 9, 2020                        7:30 pm

 
Call to Worship
Prayer of Invocation
Ever gracious God, we gather this evening hour as friends gathered with Jesus in an upper room long ago. We gather from anonymous places, with dry and thirsty spirits. Remind us in the breaking of the bread of our need and of your sufficiency. Refresh us and make us whole with the cup of forgiveness. Draw us nearer to each other in mutual service and closer to you in the covenant of faithfulness and thanksgiving.  Amen.

Sacrament of Holy Communion
(Before the service begins please arrange please arrange a piece of bread to break and a cup with juice. We will share communion virtually in our own homes.)
Invitation
Communion Prayer
Our Lord’s Prayer (debts)
The Sharing of the Bread and Cup
 
Prayer of Dedication
Everlasting God, who was and is and is to come, we are grateful that you have invited us here as guests to a banquet, as witnesses to your holy love. Let our worship this evening bring the stories and passions of scripture to new life for us. Amen. 

 Duet: Wayfaring Songs       John Leary and Sylvia Kellershon
 

Service of Tenebrae
Shadow of Betrayal: Matthew 26:2025   
     Linda Wright                                                                                                  
Shadow of Desertion: Matthew 26:31-35
     Walker Harris                                                                                                   
Agony of the Soul: Luke 22:39-44
      Allie Bigelow                                                                                                
Musical Interlude: O Sacred Head
       Allie Ebanks
Unshared Vigil: Mark 14:32-41 
       Jenny Haluza
“Father, the hour is come”: John 17:1-6
       Connor Rowland                                                                                              
“That they may all be one”: John 17:15-22
        Kristin Harper
Musical Interlude: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
         Kathrynne Yland
Arrest in the Garden: John 18:1-5
          Alice Weigers
Shadow of the Cross: Mark 15:6-15
          Ben Shea                                                                                                      
Sentence of Death: Mark 15:16-20
          Lexie Ebanks                                                                                                  
Musical Interlude: I Come to the Garden Alone
           Jim Uhl
Road to Golgotha: Luke 23:26-32
           Eileen Rosenzweig                                                                                          
The Crucifixion: Luke 23:33-43
           Glen Grayson                                                                                               
Death on the Cross: Matthew 27:45-56
            Jonathon Riley
Final Reading: The Word Was God
Benediction
Musical Postlude: Were You There?
            Sylvia Kellershon