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SUMMARY:Liturgy of Maundy Thursday - followed by the Watch til midnight (c
 ome and go as you please)
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DESCRIPTION:Maundy Thursday begins the Sacred Paschal Triduum (‘three da
 ys’)\, and in a sense all the liturgies from now until the Easter Vigil 
 are one single act of worship as we walk with Christ through his Passion (
 broken only by our need to eat and sleep).\n\nAn important part of the lit
 urgy has the priest washing the feet of members of the congregation\, call
 ing to mind the command that Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper\;
  that command\, the Latin ‘mandatum\,’ gives us the name Maundy Thursd
 ay.  The choir will sing the traditional antiphon for the foot-washing\, 
 ‘Ubi caritas\,’ in two beautiful settings by Maurice Duruflé and Ola 
 Gjeilo.\n\nAnother main feature of Maundy Thursday is the stripping away o
 f all decoration in the sanctuary at the end of the service.  We can see t
 his as analogous with the stripping of Christ’s garments on the way to t
 he cross.  But it’s best seen as an expression of casting away all distr
 actions\, all the comforts which we have become used to\, and walking with
  Christ\, stripped of everything\, so that we might focus only on him.\n\n
 Finally\, we go in procession to the Lady Chapel\, beautifully decorated l
 ike a garden\, singing a hymn\; just as the disciples went with Jesus to G
 ethsemane.  We will keep watch with Christ until midnight (you are welcome
  to come and go as you wish through that time).\n\nOn Maundy Thursday we s
 et aside the red vestments of the Passion and wear white.  We even sing 
 ‘Gloria’ again\, after so long without it.  This might seem strange\; 
 but it is of course deliberate.  This meal is an occasion for joy\, Christ
 ’s gift of his very presence with us in the Eucharist for ever\, even as
  he goes to his death.\n\nBut\, like Palm Sunday\, we enter into the tensi
 on between joy and pain\; light and darkness.  What begins in white with j
 oyful singing\, ends in darkness\, stripped of colour and indeed any sound
  at all.  It brings us into the atmosphere of that last and first meal tog
 ether\; how the disciples must have felt as Judas left\, and Peter’s bet
 rayal was foretold\, along with Jesus’ own death.  Our liturgy on Maundy
  Thursday explores this tension fully.
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LOCATION:St Margaret's\, Ilkley
URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/6894/service-and-events/events/1
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