Full Service - Maundy Thursday
Taken from Times and Seasons
Description
Maundy Thursday Service
Passover Agape / Lovefeast – an order for worship
An Agape or Love Feast is a meal celebrated in some traditions which is similar to communion, but which has the potential to be more inclusive.
Bread and water are used rather than bread and wine. The atmosphere is informal, more like an ordinary meal.
The order of service which follows uses this idea, but is also inspired in part by the Jewish Passover.
It is based on a service for ecumenical worship which was held during Holy Week which, because of its informal nature, attracted some people from the fringe of the church, who came out of curiosity.
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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