Maundy Thursday – April 18, 2019

  • Prelude:  The Handbell Choir and Organist
    • “Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed”  – BOB BURROUGHS
    • “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” – BILL INGRAM
  • Welcome and Announcements – Reverend Joel Weible
  • First Reading – Matthew 26:17-21  
  • Hymn 94:  “An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare” – O WALY WALY
  • Opening Litany and Prayer – Ashia Stoess
    • Leader:  What part of ourselves is found in the shadow of the mob that streamed to Calvary?
    • People:  What part of ourselves creates nails in other forms that wound our brothers and sisters – and our God?
    • Leader:  Let us pray together…
    • Tonight we realize that we have not kept our eyes upon your saving cross, nor listened with undivided attention to your voice.  As the realities of this night and the days ahead set in, turn us, O Lord.  Stretch our boundaries, stir our hearts, and inflame our souls to behold you in every fragment of life, to feel you in every moment of time, and to serve you in every occasion with obedience and joy.  Amen.
  • Musical Offering: Chancel Choir
    • “I See His Blood Upon the Rose”  – BILL INGRAM
  • Second Reading – Matthew 26:14-16 
  • Meditation:  THE OLD IS DEAD – Reverend Joel Weible
  • Third Reading – Matthew 26:20-25 
  • Sacrament of Communion
  • Invitation and Prayer
  • Words of Institution – Matthew 26:26-30
  • Communion by Intinction
  • Communion Music:  “God So Loved the World” – JOHN STAINER
  • Communion Prayer 
    • Everlasting God, who was and is, and is to come, we do not want to separate, we do not want to alienate, and we do not want to forsake.  But we know what the future holds.  In the breaking of the bread, we thank you for reminding us of our need and of your sufficiency.  In our drinking from the cup, we thank you for reminding us of your forgiveness.  As the night advances, deepen in us a sense of your steadfast love in and through Jesus Christ.  Amen
  • Fourth Reading – Matthew 26:31-35
  • Anthem:  “Is it I, Lord?” – V.C. JOHNSON
  • Fifth Reading – Matthew 26:47-52
  • Hymn 102:  “Were You There?” – WERE YOU THERE
  • Shrouding of the Cross
  • Final Reading – Matthew 26:55-56
  • Departure in Silence