Mass of the Lord's Supper

The Last Supper (Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy (1498), by Leonardo da Vinci).
Bishop John washes feet on Maundy Thursday 2007.

The Mass of the Lord's Supper, also known as A Service of Worship for Maundy Thursday, is a Holy Week service celebrated on the evening of Maundy Thursday.[1][2] It inaugurates the Easter Triduum,[3] and commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, more explicitly than other celebrations of the Mass.

The Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions, as well as some Reformed (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches) traditions celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper (or the Liturgy of Maundy Thursday).[1][4][5] A comparable service is celebrated in the Orthodox Church.

The Mass stresses three aspects of that event: "the institution of the Eucharist, the institution of the ministerial priesthood, and the commandment of brotherly love that Jesus gave after washing the feet of his disciples."[6]

In Lutheranism, the Maundy Thursday liturgy is found in the Lutheran Service Book and Evangelical Lutheran Worship, among other service books. In Anglicanism, these rites are found in the Book of Common Prayer,[7] as well as in the Anglican Missal.[8] In Methodism, they are found in the Book of Worship for Church and Home and The United Methodist Book of Worship, among other liturgical texts. The Orthodox equivalent is found in the Triodion, with the Washing of Feet in some editions of the Euchologion.

  1. ^ a b "A Service of Worship for Maundy Thursday" (PDF). Cheatham Memorial United Methodist Church. 24 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. ^ Elwell, Walter A. (2001). Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Baker Academic. p. 750. ISBN 9780801020759. Observed in the Roman Catholic Church, Maundy Thursday appears on the Lutheran, Anglican, and many Reformed liturgical calendars and is almost universally celebrated with the Lord's Supper.
  3. ^ "General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, 19". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
  4. ^ "The Liturgy of Maundy Thursday". Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  5. ^ "Maundy Thursday". Reformed Church in America. 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  6. ^ Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, 45
  7. ^ "Proper Liturgy for Maundy Thursday, 1979 (American) Book of Common Prayer". Archived from the original on 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2011-03-22.
  8. ^ The Anglican Missal, pp. B44-B59

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