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SUMMARY:Maundy Thursday Eucharist and Silent Prayer Vigil
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DESCRIPTION:As we gather together at the beginning of the three holiest da
 ys in the Christian year let us be silent and still as the mystery of our 
 salvation unfolds.\n\nThe following notes are offered by way of preparatio
 n for this evening’s liturgy. The title Easter Triduum on the cover remi
 nds us that over the next three days we are not celebrating three separate
  liturgies - rather we are brought into the saving events of those three d
 ays. The liturgy that we celebrate is far more than a passion play where w
 e are the audience\; through these events we are inserted into\, and made 
 sharers of\, all that Jesus accomplished for our salvation. Through the sy
 mbols and gestures\, scripture readings and prayers\, we here and now part
 icipate so that all that he accomplished through his death and\nresurrecti
 on is made real and present in our liturgy. \n\nMaundy Thursday (from mand
 atum\, ‘commandment’\, because of the use of John 13.34 in the Antipho
 n) contains a rich complex of themes. As God’s Son prepares to die on th
 e cross for the sins of the world\, he gives to the Church the means to ce
 lebrate the new and eternal sacrifice. He shows us his way of humility and
  by instituting this most holy of Sacraments\, Christ enables us to be nou
 rished and sustained as we journey on with him in faith. In so doing\, we 
 participate in his saving death and resurrection as he continues to offer 
 himself and to lead us to the Father.\n\nOn this\, the night before his de
 ath\, Jesus meets with his disciples or the Passover meal. At the end of t
 his meal he institutes the Christian meal the Eucharist. Jesus takes bread
  and wine and commands (‘mandatum’) us to celebrate this every time we
  gather as a community. We conclude with the transfer of the Eucharist to 
 be distributed tomorrow. The concluding gospel of the passion and strippin
 g of the altar points us into Good Friday. There is no conclusion/dismissa
 l tonight – we go in silence and continue tomorrow.
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