Music Notes: A professional grade keyboard has been set up and is ready for rehearsal. The Choir will sing from in front of the stage. The Chimes will be set behind the Choir area on the stage. The Keyboard is Stage Left. Choir and Chimers will move into place when they sing/play.
Sound Notes: Stuart has set up a "para sound system" with a single mic for opening and closing readings and prayers. Other readings done from around the table will not be micced. Readers will be operating on the "loud and proud" method :-)
Service Order:
Gathering
Prelude
Making Preparation
Making Preparation
- Bringing in the Bread and the Cup
- We return to the Passover Dinner where Jesus and his Disciples sat down together. We return to the taste of the food, the sight of friends and family, the sounds of laughter and bickering, the smell of the fruit of the vine, the feel of the table beneath our hands. We enter this memory and live it again, with the words of blessing that started it all...
- Blessing of Bread and Cup (blessings chanted-Nancy)
Opening Hymn "Break Thou, the Bread of Life" (insert)
Opening Prayer (Responsive):
Leader: Lord, though we do not understand all that this night means to you,
People: We need to make preparations for you in our hearts.
Leader: Though we come from very different experiences of life and love,
People: We need to be together at one table.
Leader: Though the pathway ahead is mysterious and dark to us who gather here,
People: We need to be at this table with you, in the warmth and light of fellowship.
Leader: Because we know that life is uncertain,
People: We need to be here.
As a key part of our re-living this story, as well as remembering it, you are encouraged to taste the raisins and crackers in the bowls around the room or sip water from the pitchers throughout the service. The matzah in the baskets and the cups of juice will serve us for communion. The whole fruits on the table will be donated as a fresh offering to ECHO the Hosea House after the service.
The candles around the table will be put out, one by one, marking the dwindling away of the last hours that Jesus has with his friends and followers. The final candle, the Christ candle, will be carried out, as Jesus goes to Gesthemane to pray and await the unfolding of the events of tomorrow, Good Friday.
The candles around the table will be put out, one by one, marking the dwindling away of the last hours that Jesus has with his friends and followers. The final candle, the Christ candle, will be carried out, as Jesus goes to Gesthemane to pray and await the unfolding of the events of tomorrow, Good Friday.
Experiencing the Word
Luke 22:1-46
A candle is snuffed out.
A candle is snuffed out.
Our guilt becomes an offering of hope.
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 6:
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 7:
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 8:
The Christ Candle is carried out.
Anthem: “Who Will Betray the Son of God” Choir
Reader 1:
Now the festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called the
Passover, was near. The chief priests and the scribes were looking
for a way to put Jesus to death, for they were afraid of the people.
Then Satan entered into Judas called Iscariot, who was one of the
twelve; he went away and conferred with the chief priests and
officers of the temple police about how he might betray him to them.
They were greatly pleased and agreed to give him money. So he
consented and began to look for an opportunity to betray him to them
when no crowd was present.
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 2:
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had
to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and
prepare the Passover meal for us that we may eat it.” They asked
him, “Where do you want us to make preparations for it?”
“Listen,” he said to them, “when you have entered the city, a
man carrying a jar of water will meet you; follow him into the house
he enters and say to the owner of the house, ‘The teacher asks you,
“Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my
disciples?”’ He will show you a large room upstairs, already
furnished. Make preparations for us there.” So they went and found
everything as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover meal.
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 3:
When the hour came, he took his place at the table, and the apostles
with him. He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this
Passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you, I will not eat it
until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” Then he took a cup,
and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among
yourselves; for I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the
fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” Then he took a
loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it
to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this
in remembrance of me.” And he did the same with the cup after
supper, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new
covenant in my blood.
We share the Bread and Cup.
Readers
break bread and pass cups around their area of the table.
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 4:
But see,
the one who betrays me is with me, and his hand is on the table. For
the Son of Man is going as it has been determined, but woe to that
one by whom he is betrayed!” Then they began to ask one another
which one of them it could be who would do this.
Thirty Pieces of Silver Offering is brought in and
dropped on the table.
A candle is snuffed out.
Our hands are on this table, too. We pray for forgiveness.
O Holy God, in this moment we see ourselves too clearly. Hear our acknowledgements of sin. In your great mercy, we put our trust. We place our sin in your hands and our hearts in your amazing grace. In the name of Jesus Christ, by whose love we are saved, we pray, Amen.
Our guilt becomes an offering of hope.
Offertory Music “Amazing Grace/Jesus Saves” Chalice
Chimers
In this time of music, we continue to pray.
Reader 5:
A dispute also arose among them as to which one of them was to be
regarded as the greatest. But he said to them, “The kings of the
Gentiles lord it over them; and those in authority over them are
called benefactors. But not so with you; rather the greatest among
you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who
serves. For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one
who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one
who serves.
“You are those who have stood by me in my trials; and I confer
on you, just as my Father has conferred on me, a kingdom, so that you
may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on
thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 6:
“Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has demanded to sift all of you
like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not
fail; and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your
brothers.” And he said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you
to prison and to death!” Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the cock
will not crow this day, until you have denied three times that you
know me.”
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 7:
He said to them, “When I sent you out without a purse, bag, or
sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “No, not a thing.”
He said to them, “But now, the one who has a purse must take it,
and likewise a bag. And the one who has no sword must sell his cloak
and buy one. For I tell you, this scripture must be fulfilled in me,
‘And he was counted among the lawless’; and indeed what is
written about me is being fulfilled.” They said, “Lord, look,
here are two swords.” He replied, “It is enough.”
A candle is snuffed out.
Reader 8:
He came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives;
and the disciples followed him. When he reached the place, he said to
them, “Pray that you may not come into the time of trial.” Then
he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and
prayed, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me;
yet, not my will but yours be done.” Then an angel from heaven
appeared to him and gave him strength. In his anguish he prayed more
earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling
down on the ground. When he got up from prayer, he came to the
disciples and found them sleeping because of grief, and he said to
them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come
into the time of trial.”
Anthem: "Dark Gesthemane" Choir
The Christ Candle is carried out.
Special Music "Were You There?" (adapted) Kelly Burns
Benediction
Postlude
Postlude
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