Maundy Thursday Communion Service First Presbyterian Church April 1, 2021 | 7 pm Livestreamed https://www.firstpresportland.org/2021/holy-week-easter/ The Gathering
Prelude Méditation (Communion) from Suite Médiévale Jean Langlais
Welcome and Announcements
Introit In Remembrance of Me Ragan Courtney & Buryl Red In remembrance of me, eat this bread. In remembrance of me, drink this wine. In remembrance of me, pray for the time when God’s own will is done. Take, eat, and be comforted; drink and remember, too, that this is my body and precious blood shed for you.
Call to Worship Listen, sisters and brothers, to Jesus’ invitation. We come at his invitation, to the upper room and the Table. Trust in the ministrations of the One who came to serve. We come to share the bread of life, the cup of blessing, and the community of grace.
Prayer of Hope Holy God, source of all love, on the night of his betrayal Jesus gave his disciples a new commandment, to love one another as he loved them. Write this commandment in our hearts; give us the will to serve others as he was the servant of all, who gave his life and died for us, yet is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Hymn #202 An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare o waly waly
2 Call to Confession
Prayer of Confession Holy and merciful God, we confess that, like the people of Israel, who celebrated Passover, but often forgot the ethics of hospitality, and like the disciples who protested Jesus’ servant ministry, we try to preserve our assumptions of our own goodness. Help us accept that all we really need to learn is how to practice love for one another, who we know are – if we are honest – the “least and the last,” not the first and the best. Help us trust your forgiveness. Amen. Our prayers continue in silence.
Lamb of God Ho- ly Lamb of God, you take a- way the sin of the world. Have mer- cy on us. Ho- ly Lamb of God, you take a- way the sin of the world. Grant us your peace; grant us your peace; grant us your peace.
Text: Trad. liturgical text Music: © Yusuf Khill (Glory to God No. 602)
Assurance of Pardon Friends, believe this: the One who came to dwell among us has shown us the very heart of God. We are forgiven by God, who is Love. Amen. Thanks be to God for divine grace.
First Presbyterian Church Page 1 2014 Annual Report 3 Response of Praise nettleton Hear the good news of salvation: Jesus died to show God’s love. Such great kindness! Such great mercy! Come to us from heav’n above. Jesus Christ, how much I love you! Jesus Christ, you save from sin! How I love you! Look upon me. Love me still and cleanse within.
Text: Native American (Dakota); John B. Renville, 1879; trans. Emma Tibbets, 1955 Music: Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813
The Peace Since God has forgiven us in Christ, let us also forgive one another. The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. And also with you. Please share a moment of peace with those around you.
The Word
Prayer for Illumination
First Lesson 1 Corinthians 11:17-26 Pew Bible, page 173 (NT) The Word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Anthem Ave Verum Corpus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arr. Alan Bullard) Ave verum corpus Hail, true body natum de Maria Virgine, born of the virgin Mary, vere passum immolatum who having truly suffered, was sacrificed in cruce pro homine; on the cross for all; cujus latus perforatum whose pierced side flowed unda fluxit et sanguine: with water and blood: esto nobis praegustatum may it be for us a foretaste in mortis examine. in the trial of death.
Second Lesson John 13:33-35 Pew Bible, pg. 108 (NT) The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, O Christ.
Meditation “Dealing with Our Emptiness” Rev. Zane Buxton
Hymn #498 Loaves Were Broken, Words Were Spoken beach spring
First Presbyterian Church 4Page 2 2014 Annual Report Affirmation of Faith (Unison) from the Confession of 1967 (9.16-17) God has created the world of space and time to be the sphere of divine dealings with human beings. In its beauty and vastness, sublimity and awfulness, order and disorder, the world reflects to the eye of faith the majesty and mystery of its Creator. God has created humans in a personal relationship with the divine self that humans may respond to the love of the Creator. God has created male and female persons and given them a life which proceeds from birth to death in a succession of generations and in a wide complex of social relationship. God has endowed humans with capacities to make the world serve human needs and to enjoy its good things. Life is a gift to be received with gratitude and a task to be pursued with courage. Humans are free to seek life within the purpose of God: to develop and protect the resources of nature for the common welfare, to work for justice and peace in society, and in other ways to use their creative powers for the fulfillment of human life.
The Eucharist
This evening’s Great Thanksgiving acclamations will be spoken.
Invitation to the Lord’s Table
Great Thanksgiving The Lord be with you. And also with you. Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give our thanks and praise.
We give thanks and praise, Holy God, in this dry and weary land. You set a table for us in the wilderness of our spirits and provide for all our needs. Even when we complain against you, you feed us with bread from heaven. When we quarrel and question your grace, you give us water from a stone. How can we keep silent? Even dry bones in the valley of death stand to sing your praise. 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.
First Presbyterian Church 5Page 3 2014 Annual Report We give you thanks and praise for the Incarnate One, our way in the wilderness and our companion in the desert. He knows our hunger and thirst; he gives us the bread of life to eat and living water to drink. He leads us beside still water and prepares this table for us, even in the presence of our enemies. He gives his life for us. Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again. Now pour out your Holy Spirit upon this bread, this cup, these people. By the power of your Spirit breathe life into our dust and hope into our bones. Make us one flesh and one blood, one in the body of Christ. Let us live to sing your praise and show your love to all, until our wilderness wandering is over, and we feast with you forever in the land that you have promised. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory is yours, O God, now and always. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer (Unison) 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 the Bread & Offering the Cup
Communion Music Meditation on Beach Spring Charles Callahan
Prayer after Communion
The Sending
Stripping of the Church Psalm 22 The stripping of the church has come to symbolize the stripping of Jesus before the Crucifixion. By the time of its conclusion the church’s chancel is transformed from being a place of holy worship in the midst of beauty, to what now appears quite like a tomb. In that transformation, we see a great truth: the joy we experience in our worship came at the cost of the death of the One we worship.
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First Presbyterian Church Page 4 2014 Annual Report 6 Worship Leaders
Rev. Zane Buxton, Parish Associate Rev. Dr. Audrey Schindler, Pastor Greg Homza, Director of Music Ministries Madeline Ross, Cantor
Special Holy Week & Easter Services!
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