maundy thursday (remembrance of me) april 1, 2021 online

Maundy Thursday

(Remembrance of Me)

April 1, 2021

ONLINE

444 Abbot Road

East Lansing, MI 48823

Phone: (517) 332-0778

www.martinlutherchapel.org

“Christ- Students- Community Coming Together”

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“Do this in remembrance of Me,” Jesus commanded as He instituted the

Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. When we receive His body and blood, we

remember and proclaim His death. His death was the only sacrifice needed as

He brings about the new covenant promised through Jeremiah. As the writer of

Hebrews explains, now there is no need for sacrifice. God remembers His

steadfast love and, for Jesus’ sake, forgets our sins. We are therefore able to

come into His presence and also move one another to love and good works.

PRELUDE “Deep Within”

WELCOME

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OPENING HYMN “When You Woke That Thursday Morning”

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INVOCATION In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION

We take this time to examine ourselves through God’s righteous law. The Ten

Commandments, the moral code of the Kingdom, reveal to us the gravity of our sin,

for they call us to love God with our whole being and our neighbors as ourselves.

You shall have no other gods.

We confess that we put other things above our fear, love, and

trust in God.

You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.

We confess that we do not call upon it in every trouble, pray,

praise, and give thanks.

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

We confess that we do not always hold it sacred and gladly

hear and learn God's Word.

Honor your father and your mother.

We confess that we do not always honor them, serve and obey

them, love and cherish them.

You shall not commit adultery.

We confess that we are not pure in all we say and do, and we do

not always love and honor our spouses.

You shall not steal.

We confess we do not always help our neighbors to improve

and protect their possessions and income.

You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

We confess we do not always defend our neighbors, or speak

well of them, or explain everything in the kindest way.

You shall not covet.

We confess that we do not always help our neighbors keep their

property and family relationships.

We have examined ourselves according to God’s law. Our King has paid for the

sins of His subjects. In the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ, I

therefore forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the + Son and of

the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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PRAYER OF THE DAY Holy God, source of all love, on the night of his betrayal, Jesus gave his disciples

a new commandment: To love one another as he had loved them. By your Holy

Spirit write this commandment in our hearts; through your Son, Jesus Christ our

Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, on God, now and forever.

Amen.

WORD

OLD TESTAMENT READING Exd 12:1-4[5-10]11-14.

The Lord promises a new covenant.

The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I

made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the

land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the

Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those

days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts;

and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one

another, or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the

least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and

remember their sin no more.

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

EPISTLE 1 Cor 11:23-26

We may approach God, confident of forgiveness for Jesus’ sake.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on

the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke

it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In

the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new

covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For

as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until

he comes.

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

HOLY GOSPEL John 13:1-17, 31b-35. Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper.

The Holy Gospel according to John the thirteenth chapter.

Glory to You, O Lord.

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to

depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world,

he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the

heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father

had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going

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back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel,

tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the

disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He

came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus

answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will

understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him,

“If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord,

not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “The one who

has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And

you are clean, but not every one of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; that

was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place,

he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher

and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have

washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an

example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to

you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one

who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is

glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and

glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek

me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you

cannot come.’ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as

I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that

you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

This is the Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to You, O Christ.

SERMON

PRAYER OF THE CHURCH Psalm 25:6

Let us pray for the whole people of God in Christ Jesus and for all people in their

various needs.

Heavenly Father, we pray for the nations of the world. Where their leaders care

for their people, give them supportive citizens; where they seek their own power,

frustrate their efforts and shorten their rule.

Remember Your mercy, O LORD, and Your steadfast love, for

they have been from of old. Lord Jesus, we pray for those who are often forgotten in society: people who are

imprisoned or exiled from their homelands, people with long-term illnesses in

hospitals and nursing homes, and people who live in poverty with their basic

needs unmet. Assure them of Your presence and move the powers that be to care

for them with dignity and justice.

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they have been from of old.

O Holy Spirit, we pray for the Church wherever people gather around Word and

Sacrament. Where it is persecuted, give courage; where it is growing, open doors

of opportunity; where it is asleep, awaken clergy and laity to lead with zeal.



Lord over all, we pray for those who tend fields and flocks, who make and

distribute goods, who protect and defend communities and nations, who heal and

care for the ill and dying, who teach and administer our schools, who serve in all

levels of government, and all who provide necessary services. Give them eyes to

see their callings as ministries from Your gracious hand.



Triune God, we pray for people who do not know Jesus as Lord, who wonder

about the truth of Your Word, and whose faith has grown cold. Grant them sure

faith and remind them of Your great love, promised for ages and fulfilled in the

life, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.



These and any other things You would have us ask of You this day, grant to us

for the sake of the bitter sufferings and death of Your Son, Jesus Christ, in whose

name we pray.

Amen.

HYMN “When Twilight Comes” Daniela Cruz, viola LORD’S PRAYER (Matthew 6:9–13)

Our Father who art in heaven,

hallowed be Thy name,

Thy kingdom come,

Thy will be done on earth

as it is in heaven;

give us this day our daily bread;

and forgive us our trespasses

as we forgive those

who trespass against us;

and lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom

and the power and the glory

forever and ever. Amen.

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