Open Arms Maundy Thursday Evening Prayer, April 9, 2020

Maundy Thursday Evening Prayer

April 9, 2020

Welcome to Open Arms Lutheran Church.  God bless your worship today, as you receive His gifts of forgiveness and encouragement!

Here is the link for this service:  Maundy Thursday Evening Prayer

Opening Song:  Power To Redeem

Invocation

V:  In the name of the Father and of the ✠ Son and of the Holy Spirit.

C:  Amen.

V:  Jesus Christ is the Light of the world,

C:  the light no darkness can overcome.

V:  Stay with us, Lord, for it is evening,

C:  and the day is almost over.

V:  Let Your light scatter the darkness

C:  and illumine Your Church.

Psalm 141

C:  Let my prayer rise before You as incense,

            the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

V:  O Lord, I call to You; come to me quickly;

            hear my voice when I cry to You.

C:  Let my prayer rise before You as incense,

            the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

V:  Set a watch before my mouth, O Lord,

            and guard the door of my lips.

C:  Let not my heart incline to any evil thing;

            let me not be occupied in wickedness with evildoers.

V:  But my eyes are turned to You, O God;

            in You I take refuge.  Strip me not of my life.

C:  Glory be to the Father and to the ✠ Son and to the Holy Spirit;

            as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

V:  Let us pray.

      Let the incense of our repentant prayer ascend before You, O Lord, and let Your loving-kindness descend on us that, with purified minds, we may sing Your praises with the Church on earth and the whole heavenly host and may glorify You forever.

C:  Amen.

Gospel    John 13:1–17, 31b–35

V:  The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the 13^th chapter.

C:  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 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. . . .

     “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.”

V:  This is the Gospel of the Lord.

C:  Praise to You, O Christ.

Sermon

Apostles’ Creed

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,

     maker of heaven and earth.

 And in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,

     who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,

     born of the virgin Mary,

     suffered under Pontius Pilate,

     was crucified, died and was buried.

     He descended into hell.

     The third day He rose again from the dead.

     He ascended into heaven

     and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.

     From thence He will come to judge the living and the dead.

 I believe in the Holy Spirit,

     the holy Christian Church,

          the communion of saints,

     the forgiveness of sins,

     the resurrection of the body,

     and the life everlasting. Amen.

Lord’s Prayer

V:  Taught by our Lord and trusting His promises, we are bold to pray:

C:  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.

Benediction  

V:   The almighty and merciful Lord, the Father, the ✠ Son, and the Holy Spirit, bless and preserve you.

C:  Amen.

Closing Song:  Forever Reign