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Pine Street Presbyterian Church

Maundy Thursday

VOLUNTARY Deus Tuorum Militum

INTROIT A New Commandment

7:30 p.m.

Peter Pindar Stearns

Richard Shephard

A new commandment I give unto you: that you love one another as I have loved you. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love, if you have love for one another.

OPENING SENTENCES

Dr. Sullivan

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.

The people stand.

HYMN Praise to the Holiest in the height

PRAYER OF CONFESSION

Rev. Sigler

Most merciful God, we your church confess that often our spirit has not been that of Christ. We have failed to love one another as he loves us. We have pledged loyalty to him with our lips and then betrayed, deserted, or denied him. Forgive us, we pray, and by your Spirit, make us faithful in every time of trial; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

SILENCE FOR PERSONAL CONFESSION

ASSURANCE OF FORGIVENESS

THE PEACE

One: Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us forgive one another. The peace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Many: Peace be with you.

GLORIA

The people are seated.

PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION Dr. Sullivan

FIRST READING Exodus 12:1-14

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.

The people stand.

PSALM 116 What Shall I Render to the Lord (No. 655, from Glory to God) MARTYRDOM

The people are seated.

SECOND READING 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

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.

Rev. Sigler

GOSPEL READING John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” Jesus answered, “You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you are clean, though not all of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, “Not all of you are clean.” After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’ I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

SERMON “Do You Know What I Have Done to You?” Rev. Sigler

ANTHEM Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness Scott Perkins Soul, adorn yourself with gladness, leave the gloomy haunts of sadness, come into the daylight’s splendor, there with joy your praises render. Bless the one whose grace unbounded this amazing banquet founded; he, though heavenly, high, and holy, deigns to dwell with you most lowly. Now in faith I humbly ponder over this surpassing wonder that the bread of life is boundless though the souls it feeds are countless. Jesus, source of lasting pleasure, truest friend and dearest treasure, worthily let me receive you, and, so favored, never leave you.

PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION

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…

Dr. Sullivan

The prayer continues.

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.

STRIPPING OF THE CHURCH

All depart in silence.

Rev. Sigler

LEADING IN WORSHIP THIS EVENING

The Reverend Dr. Russell C. Sullivan, Jr., Pastor

The Reverend Heather M. Sigler, Parish Associate Joseph W. Garrison, Minister of Worship and Music

Katherine Burns, Laura Edinger, Chris Earhart, Brianna Heinly, Jordan Markham, James Martin, Ollie Silver, Todd Snovel, and Sarah Topping, Choral Ensemble

COPYRIGHT NOTES

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