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James Tissot -   Washing the Feet

Welcome to Worship - Maundy Thursday

The Thursday of Holy Week

Opening Prayer:

Circle us, O Lord
breathe faith within
and breathe out all our doubts

Circle us, O Lord
breathe hope within
and breathe out all our fears

Circle us, O Lord
breathe love within
and breathe out all our misunderstanding

Entrance Hymn:
When Jesus Wept

When Jesus wept, the falling tear
in mercy flowed beyond all bound.
When Jesus groaned, a trembling fear
seized all the guilty world around.

Prayer for Understanding

Expectantly we enter this evening
like your friends cloistered epochs ago
Waiting for the sign of your kingdom
Watching for the wink for when
you would ascend the throne
and put all things to right

and we’ve waited
how long, O Lord?
And you say
rest with me
eat with me
sing with me
pray with me
and so
we will
without any answers
amidst all the confusion
outside our cloister
we will

we will fall asleep on you tonight
we will forget about you
we will deny you in some way
we will hide
we will wonder what we’ve done with you
and run the cost-benefit analysis

Love us still, O Lord
Stay faithful to us, O Lord
Have mercy on our fear-based behaviors
We wish to be yours
We wish to understand

Hold us close
even though we should be holding you close this night
Amen

Scripture Reading: John 12


Prayers of the People:

We gather in your Gethsemane
great Teacher
and join you in profound prayer
surrounded by the darkness
shadowless murk
but we see you
your light
draws us into the center
of sorrow
for the suffering of this world
we linger with you
in the loneliness laboring
in the homes of hundreds of millions this night
we bow at the burden
of fear and fright
felt across the cosmos
and we attempt not to resolve it
but to feel it
to sense the suffering
to perceive the pain
to deal with death
and to know the night
for all its darkness
For to deny the depths of the dark
spills lamp oil on desert sand

We shall wait
and rest
until another day
when perhaps
you will heal these hurts
come, Lord Jesus
amen​

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Recessional Hymn: Go to Dark Gethsemane

1 Go to dark Gethsemane,
You who feel the tempter's pow'r;
Your Redeemer's conflict see;
Watch with Him one bitter hour;
Turn not from His griefs away;
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray.

2 Follow to the judgment hall;
View the Lord of life arraigned;
O the worm-wood and the gall!
O the pangs His soul sustained!
Shun not suff'ring, shame, or loss;
Learn of Him to bear the cross.
3 Calv'ry's mournful mountain climb
There' adoring at His feet,
Mark the miracle of time,
God's own sacrifice complete:
"It is finished!" Hear the cry;
Learn of Jesus Christ to die.

4 Early hasten to the tomb

Where they laid his breathless clay;
All is solitude and gloom;
Who hath taken Him away?
Christ is ris'n! He meets our eyes:
Savior, teach us so to rise.

Author: James Montgomery (1825)

Benediction: Thursday

Night hastens
chasing the few bars of the bird before rest
of day
it will not do to hold onto the light
it must go out
but for a fermata
not the fine.

Caked feet
cry out for oil and water
towel and basin
and tears
shame and guilt
awkward thoughts and roles being played out
in real time
love gets naked then wrapped in just a cloth
meant for those indebted to serve
but what is this? this debt of love?

Will you love each other?
Please?
a final pleaful prayer
and sorrow and song
tearsalt that touches the wine
as morsels mingle
in the moment of mindfulness
night hastens the hand
who hands over
how hopeless he hurries
how heartbreakingly he hurts
himself
his hero

songsung
toward a gardenscape to tarry
and to tiredness
Dad, there’s no other way to love
is there?
willing Wind of God
weak wills of flesh
friends who fall fast
witness the flames poking torchholes in the twilight
I am
I will
I have already
loved
all
always
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