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Thursday, April 9. 2009

Holy Thursday

Today is Holy Thursday. Our church holds a silent Seder each Holy Thursday, in remembrance of Christ's last supper.


No wine, unfortunately, but all of the traditional Seder foods.


We do not post things on this site on Good Friday because it is a day of prayer and reflection on the cross and its meaning to us.

Posted by Bird Dog in Religion at 17:25 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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ooohhh--your so moderne! That's how it got started in the Episcopal Church--imitating the rituals of other traditions--now there is nothing left of the Episcopal Tradition.
#1 apple pie on 2009-04-09 19:14 (Reply)
Not modern. It's a memorial of Christ's Last Supper. We've been doing it for 25 years.
#1.1 bd on 2009-04-09 19:21 (Reply)
A line from the Curate of Ars via J. Blue, principal character in Myles Connolly's Mr. Blue:

"The cross is the gift God gives his friends."
#2 The Distributist (Link) on 2009-04-09 19:38 (Reply)
The Episcopal Church, as a spin-off of the Catholic Church, shares MANY of the Roman Catholic Traditions. In fact, with a few minor tweaks, the two could probably merge again quite nicely.

The Catholic Church, in recent years, has taken to reverting to many of the Jewish Traditions that represent its founding, even as it maintains many of the other traditions it adopted over the years to both separate itself from Judaism AND integrate other pagan religions (Easter and Christmas both have massive pagan intrusions that are related to nothing but basic harvest rituals and astrological worship).

Regardless of HOW we worship, the key is remembering what we worship. And that is the sacrifice of one man's life for all of us. One man who showed us all that a higher moral plane can be reached with much struggle and sacrifice.
Clearly, achieving the near perfection he exhibited (hey, he did cause a ruckus in the Temple...even if it was somewhat justified) is something many of us are incapable of doing. But it's in the attempt that we define ourselves.
#3 Rick on 2009-04-09 19:52 (Reply)
Seriously, sitting in silence eating a simple seder supper while our deacons take turns reading the words of Jesus at the last supper - as reported by John, "the disciple whom Jesus loved", and then after communion & a hymn, leaving in silence, is a high point of our Easter.

This is the true reality show, my friends.
#4 Gwynne on 2009-04-09 21:23 (Reply)
We had a Seder last night at our church, led by members of Jews for Jesus. We're Presbyterian.

What we today see as the body and blood of Christ in communion comes directly from the seder. The bread that Jesus shared with the disciples was the afikoman, which is the last piece of matzoh broken and distributed by the leader of the seder to all after the meal and which symbolizes the pesach lamb. The particular cup of wine poured by Jesus for the disciples is the third cup of wine in the seder, known as the Cup of Redemption.

Once you've gone through a seder and see the meaning of what goes on from a Jewish standpoint and how what Jesus did ties directly into the Jewish understanding of Passover, communion takes on a much deeper meaning. You understand why Paul wrote to the Corinthians, "Christ, our passover [lamb], was sacrificed for us." A number of people were crying by the end of the service.
#5 Jim on 2009-04-10 01:51 (Reply)
Sunrise service at the shore ,
time of renewal,
of forgiveness.
#6 DucSup on 2009-04-10 10:47 (Reply)
The silent Seder reenactment of the Last Supper as described by Gwynne sounds like a most effective way to reveal the true meaning of Holy Week.
#7 greenmtnpunter on 2009-04-11 09:47 (Reply)

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