Eucharist of the Last Supper

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EUCHARIST OF THE LAST SUPPER

MAUNDY THURSDAY 2020 7.00 pm

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Many of us will never have joined in a streamed Eucharist before and it will probably seem strange at first. These strange times call for new patterns and Archbishop Justin has challenged us to become a different kind of church.

There will probably be much sadness as we can no longer gather together in our familiar places with familiar people. Yet we are still the people of God.

Over the coming days and weeks, we need to be Christ’s hands and feet in our world, sharing grace and practical kindness. At home or at work, self-isolating or looking after others, we can all do something to show our love.

The Thursday of Holy Week derives the name Maundy from the Latin 'mandatum', meaning commandment. In St John's account of the Last Supper Jesus gave his disciples a new commandment, ‘that you love one another as I have loved you’ and exemplified it by taking a towel and washing his disciples' feet.

This Festal Eucharist is a celebration of the Institution of Holy Communion. The saying of the Gloria, which has been omitted during Lent, returns on this day and white vestments are worn. In obedience to his command to ‘do this in remembrance of me’ we shall recall Jesus' act of self-giving love in dying to redeem us, prefigured in the Last Supper.

At the end of the Last Supper Jesus and his disciples went to Gethsemane, singing a hymn as they went. So also the mood of the end of this service changes from celebration to the agony of prayer, betrayal, arrest and trial. During the Watch of Prayer, which follows at the end of this service we are invited to watch with Christ in solemn recollection of Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Try to actively share in the service, not just have it on in the background. Join in the words in bold. You may not want to stand or kneel as usual, but find a comfortable position that helps you and perhaps think about how you hold your hands, maybe holding them palms upwards to receive God’s love and blessing.

At the heart of the service is communion but communion we cannot physically share, and so we are invited to each make a spiritual communion, as the Prayer Book teaches.

May God bless you as we worship Him together.

ORDER OF SERVICE

The Gathering

THE GREETING

The Very Reverend Catherine Ogle, Dean of Winchester, presiding at this service, greets the people.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. All Amen.

You may like to adopt a prayer posture such as sitting with your head bowed, as we remember our brokenness and call to mind our sins.

PRAYER OF PREPARATION

All Almighty God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hidden: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

PRAYERS OF PENITENCE

Our Lord Jesus Christ says: 'If you love me, keep my commandments. Unless I wash you, you have no part in me.'

Let us confess to Almighty God our sins against his love, and ask him to cleanse us.

President Almighty God, All our heavenly Father, we have sinned against you and against our neighbour in thought and word and deed, through negligence, through weakness, through our own deliberate fault. We are truly sorry and repent of all our sins. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, who died for us, forgive us all that is past and grant that we may serve you in newness of life to the glory of your name. Amen.

President Almighty God, who forgives all who truly repent, have mercy upon you, pardon and deliver you from all your sins, confirm and strengthen you in all goodness and keep you in life eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. All Amen.

THE COLLECT

President Let us pray.

The President invites the people to pray, and silence is kept.

God our Father, you have invited us to share in the supper which your Son gave to his Church to proclaim his death until he comes: may he nourish us by his presence and unite us in his love: who is alive and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. All Amen.

THE GLORIA

President Glory to God in the highest, and peace to his people on earth. We praise you, we bless you, we worship you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory. Lord Jesus Christ, only Son of the Father, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, you take away the sin of the world: have mercy upon us; you take away the sin of the world: receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father: have mercy upon us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

The Liturgy of the Word

Sit comfortably to listen to God speaking through the Scriptures.

NEW TESTAMENT READING 1 Corinthians 11. 23-26 read by Canon Mark Collinson, Canon Principal

Beloved, 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.

This is the word of the Lord. All Thanks be to God.

THE GOSPEL ACCLAMATION

GOSPEL READING John 13.1-17, 31b-35 read by Canon Roland Riem, Vice-Dean and Canon Chancellor

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.

Jesus said, ‘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.’

Please sit comfortably for the address.

ADDRESS Canon Andy Trenier, Precentor and Sacrist

After the address we keep silence together for a few moments before

THE WASHING OF FEET

After the Washing of the Feet, the President says

Almighty Father, whose Son Jesus Christ has taught us that what we do for the least of our brothers and sisters we do also for him: Give us the will to be the servant of others as he was the servant of all, who surrendered his life and died for us, and is now alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. All Amen.

THE INTERCESSIONS

We are invited to pray for the Church, the wider world, and one another.

If you have a particular prayer request, please leave it in the comments or chat section on our social media sites or email it to pray@winchestercathedral.org.uk and we will pray all your prayers here at the Cathedral over the coming weeks.

You may like to adopt a prayer posture with your hands open and lifted up to God as we hold out all the prayers of our hearts to him.

The Liturgy of the Sacrament

THE PEACE

President Jesus says: 'Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.'

The peace of the Lord be always with you All and also with you.

THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER

President It is indeed right to give you thanks, Father most holy, through Jesus Christ our Lord. For on this night he girded himself with a towel and, taking the form of a servant, washed the feet of his disciples. He gave us a new commandment that we should love one another as he has loved us. Knowing that his hour had come, in his great love he gave this supper to his disciples to be a memorial of his passion, that we might proclaim his death until he comes again, and feast with him in his kingdom. Therefore earth unites with heaven to sing a new song of praise; we too join with angels and archangels as they proclaim your glory without end:

All Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

President Lord, you are holy indeed, the source of all holiness; grant that by the power of your Holy Spirit, and according to your holy will, these gifts of bread and wine may be to us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ; who, in the same night that he was betrayed, took bread and gave you thanks; he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you; do this in remembrance of me.

In the same way, after supper he took the cup and gave you thanks; he gave it to them, saying: Drink this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

And so, Father, calling to mind his death on the cross, his perfect sacrifice made once for the sins of the whole world; rejoicing in his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension, and looking for his coming in glory, we celebrate this memorial of our redemption.

As we offer you this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, we bring before you this bread and this cup and we thank you for counting us worthy to stand in your presence and serve you.

Send the Holy Spirit on your people and gather into one in your kingdom all who share this one bread and one cup, so that we, in the company of all the saints, may praise and glorify you for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord;

by whom, and with whom, and in whom, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all honour and glory be yours, almighty Father, for ever and ever. All Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER

After the introductory words

All 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

BREAKING OF THE BREAD

The President breaks the consecrated bread.

President Every time we eat this bread and drink this cup All we proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

SPIRITUAL COMMUNION

For most of us participating at home, this will be a very strange experience of being invited to Communion not through the physical bread and wine we can touch but a Spiritual Communion with the God who always comes to meet us wherever we are.

There are no special words or prayers for this, all the Church has ever thought necessary is true desire, lively faith and genuine love. Come honestly before God the way you know how. You may like to listen to the music or pray quietly one of these prayers to help you:

Lord, you stand at the door of my heart and knock. You wait for me and only I can let you in. I believe and trust in you and ask you now to fill me with presence. Feed me with your body and unite me in your blood, that I may be your blessing to a world in need. Amen.

Confession of St Thomas Jn. 20:28

In union, O Lord, with the faithful at every altar of thy Church, where the Holy Eucharist is now being celebrated, I desire to offer thee praise and thanksgiving. I present to thee my soul and body with the earnest wish that I may always be united to thee. And since I cannot now receive thee sacramentally, I beseech thee to come spiritually into my heart. I unite myself to thee, and embrace thee with all the affections of my soul. Let nothing ever separate thee from me. May I live and die in thy love. Amen.

Traditional Anglican form for use by armed forces

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

President Let us pray.

President Almighty God, All we thank you for feeding us with the body and blood of your Son Jesus Christ. Through him we offer you our souls and bodies to be a living sacrifice. Send us out in the power of your Spirit to live and work to your praise and glory. Amen.

The GOSPEL OF THE WATCH Luke 22.31-62 is read by the Dean.

All are invited to stay keep the Watch for the following hour.

UPCOMING ONLINE SERVICES

10th April Good Friday

Liturgy of Good Friday 12pm

11th April Easter Eve

Rumours of Hope 2020: from 8pm onwards A Vigil for our times

12th April Easter Sunday

Diocesan Easter Eucharist from early morning

RSCM The Big Easter Evensong 6pm

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For Saturdays vigil please visit: www.rumoursofhope.co.uk

The Easter Sunday Diocesan Eucharist can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW0g2Up24ggwXm_7F2h3OAQ

The RSCM Big Easter Evensong is accessed here: https://www.rscm.org.uk/online-resources/the-big-easter-evensong/