Maundy Thursday Service

We gather in the evening on Maundy Thursday remembering the last Passover meal Jesus had with his disciples. Following a brief sermon, we join together around a candle-lit communion table for a simple, quiet observance of the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Table is then made bare. Then follow four brief “Passion” readings from the Gospels. As candles are extinguished, passages are read recalling Jesus’ time of prayer and arrest in the garden, his trial before the Chief Priests and the Roman authorities, and his death and burial. The cross is draped in black, and the service ends in darkness and silence with a charge to “watch and wait and keep a holy vigil until the morning of resurrection…”