Maundy Thursday

March 28, 2024

Pine Street Presbyterian Church

VOLUNTARY Deus Tuorum Militum (O Love, How Deep)

INTROIT He That Hath My Commandments

7:30 p.m.

Peter Pindar Stearns

Thomas Shorter

He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, the same is he that loveth me. If any man love me, he will keep my word, and my father will love him, and we will come unto him and dwell with him.

OPENING SENTENCES

Rev. Matt Drumheller

One: Jesus said: I give you a new commandment, that you love one another.

Many: Just as Christ has loved us, let us love one another.

One: This is the day when Christ, our Passover Lamb, surrendered himself to those who would kill him, setting us free from sin and death forever. This is the day when Christ, our Teacher, and Lord, knelt down to wash the disciples’ feet, showing us how to love and serve one another. This is the day when Christ, the bread of heaven, shared a holy meal with his followers, offering a feast of abundant life and grace for all. Let us pray together:

Many: O God, your love is embodied in Jesus Christ, who washed disciples’ feet on the night of his betrayal. Wash us from the stain of sin, so that, in hours of danger, we may not fail, but follow your Son through every trial, and praise him always as Lord and Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

† Those able are invited to stand

Bold text is read or sung by all

Maundy Thursday

†HYMN Praise to the Holiest in the Height NEWMAN

†PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Eternal God, whose covenant with us is never broken, we confess that we fail to fulfill your will. Though you have bound yourself to us, we often refuse to bind ourselves to you. In Jesus Christ, you serve us freely, but we refuse your love and withhold ourselves from others. We do not love you fully or love one another as you command. In your mercy, forgive and cleanse us. Lead us once again to your table and unite us to Christ, who is the bread of life and the vine from which we grow in peace.

†SILENCE FOR PERSONAL CONFESSION

†KYRIE

†ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

One: In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven! Many: Thanks be to God. Amen.

†GLORIA

FIRST READING Exodus 12:1-14

Old Testament Page 58

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one; the lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly. It is the Passover of the Lord. For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance.

One: The Word of the Lord. Many: Thanks be to God.

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Rev. Richard Sheffield

†PSALM

What

MARTYRDOM

116

Shall I Render to the Lord (No. 655, from Glory to God)

SECOND READING 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

New Testament page 173

For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

One: The Word of the Lord.

Many: Thanks be to God.

THIRD READING Mark 14:12-26

New Testament page 51

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb is sacrificed, his disciples said to him, ‘Where do you want us to go and make the preparations for you to eat the Passover?’ So he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, ‘Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him, and wherever he enters, say to the owner of the house, “The Teacher asks, Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?” He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.’ So the disciples set out and went to the city, and found everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal. When it was evening, he came with the twelve. And when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said, ‘Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.’ They began to be distressed and to say to him one after another, ‘Surely, not I?’ He said to them, ‘It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me. For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.’ While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, ‘Take; this is my body.’ Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, and all of them drank from it. He said to them, ‘This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Truly I tell you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.’ When they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

One: The Word of the Lord.

Many: Thanks be to God.

SERMON “The Last Supper”

ANTHEM When Christ Broke Bread

Rev. Drumheller

Carol Muehlig

When Christ broke bread and raised the cup our souls’ deep hungers were relieved. Fed by the food Christ lifted up how can we taste and not believe? The comfort of a loved one’s voice in kind words given and received; in these Christ’s music is rejoiced. How can we hear and not believe? When hands are joined and we embrace our love for Christ more love conceives. God gives this sacrament of grace. How can we touch and not believe? If fath is blind we see no loss the image always we perceive is love resplendent on a cross. How can we see and not believe? Christ ends the end we cannot bear. The scent of flowers as we grieve is winter dying in spring air. How can we live and not believe? How can we live? How can we live? How can we live and not believe?

THE EUCHARIST

INVITATION TO THE LORD’S TABLE

GREAT THANKSGIVING

One: The Lord be with you.

Many: And also with you.

One: Lift up your hearts.

Many: We lift them to the Lord.

One: Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.

Many: It is right to give God thanks and praise.

The prayer continues…

…who forever sing to the glory of your name:

The prayer continues…

…that our lives may proclaim the One crucified and risen.

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION

One: In your mercy,

Many: Lord, hear our prayer.

LORD’S PRAYER

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

BREAKING OF THE BREAD

COMMUNION OF THE PEOPLE

CLOSING PRAYER

God of grace, your Son Jesus Christ left us this holy meal of bread and wine in which we share his body and blood. May we who have celebrated this sign of his great love show in our lives the fruits of his redemption; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit. one God, now and forever. Amen.