- 8 -8 I am so fast in prison : that I cannot get forth.9 My sight faileth for very trouble : Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.10 Dost thou shew wonders among the dead : or shall the dead rise up again, and praise thee?11 Shall thy loving-kindness be shewed in the grave : or thy faithfulness in destruction?12 Shall thy wondrous works be known in the dark : and thy righteousness in the land where all things are forgotten?13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord : and early shall my prayer come before thee.14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul : and hidest thou thy face from me?15 I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die : even from my youth up thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.16 Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me : and the fear of thee hath undone me.17 They came round about me daily like water : and compassed me together on every side.18 My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me : and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

You may remain in quiet at the end of the service for prayer in the church.

We leave in silence.

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER SERVICES

Good FridayWe meditate on our Lord’s death on the Cross

9:00am Matins with Litany and Reproaches (Dutch)8:00 pm Evensong with Reproaches and Litany (in English)

Holy Saturday and EASTER EVE 10:00am Morning Prayer (Dutch)

After sunset we have our first celebration of the Resurrection!8:30 pm Lighting of the New Fire and

Choral Communion (in English)

EASTER DAYOur second celebration of the Resurrection!

10:30 am Choral Communion (in English)

The celebration of Easter continues…Easter Monday – 2nd April

10:00 am Choral Communion (Dutch liturgy / English sermon)Easter Tuesday – 3rd April

10:00 am Holy Communion (said in English)

Maundy Thursday Music and Hymns AD 2018

Our service tonight begins with a burst of joy, the Gloria, as we commemorate the institution of the Lord’s Supper, the Holy Communion. Our service concludes with a desolation and silence as we strip the church of all of all ornamentation, possible only because of our Lord’s self-giving. We leave the church in silence remembering our Lord’s arrest and his abandonment by the disciples.

Maundy Thursday is dominated by the Lord’s Supper, which is joyous and festive, even in the midst of Holy Week and the beginning of the Triduum. Jesus says, speaking of God’s plan to unite our souls with Him, “With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:  For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” [Luke 22:15-16 KJV] The words and actions of Jesus at the Last Supper – the taking, giving thanks (or blessing), breaking, and giving of bread and wine – point to his status as the Chosen one, Anointed (Christ), broken on the Cross and given, poured out, for the life of the world. It also happens to all who believe in Jesus, as we allow God’s will to be worked out in our lives – chosen, blessed, broken, and given. This is the mystery of our faith.

The Holy Communion is preceded by the ceremony of Foot Washing, as three members of the congregation, representing the disciples, come forward to have their feet washed. “Maundy” is an old English form of the Latin word “mandatum”, which means “commandment”. The name “Maundy Thursday” recollects the words of Jesus just after he had washed the feet of his apostles: “A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one

another.” Christian charity must first manifest itself within the community of the Church which is the Body of Christ. And as if that were not difficult enough, it must overflow in service to a world which “God so loved”.

Following the final hymn, the Altar is stripped and the church laid bare. We remember the abandonment of Our Lord. You may remain in quiet at the end of the service for prayer in the church. We leave in silence.

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Gloria in excelsis (stand)

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Communion Hymn: The Choir sings the Lent prose

Post Communion Hymn: 133 (vs 3,4,5) Great God

3 Great God, in Christ you call our name, and then receive us as your own, not through some merit, right or claim, but by your gracious love alone. We strain to glimpse your mercy-seat, and find you kneeling at our feet.

4 Then take the towel, and break the bread, and humble us, and call us friends. Suffer and serve till all are fed, and show how grandly love intends to work till all creation sings, to fill all worlds, to crown all things.

5 Great God, in Christ you set us free your life to live, your joy to share. Give us your Spirits’s liberty to turn from guilt and dull despair and offer all that faith can do, while love is making all things new.

Words: Brian A. Wren b. 1936

Psalm 88 is sung by the choir while the altar is stripped.

PSALM 88. (sung by the choir during the stripping of the sanctuary)

Domine DeusO LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee : O let my prayer enter into thy presence, incline thine ear unto my calling.2 For my soul is full of trouble : and my life draweth nigh unto hell.3 I am counted as one of them that go down into the pit : and I have been even as a man that hath no strength.4 Free among the dead, like unto them that are wounded, and lie in the grave

: who are out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.5 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit : in a place of darkness, and in the deep.6 Thine indignation lieth hard upon me : and thou hast vexed me with all thy storms.7 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me : and made me to be abhorred of them.

- 6 -Foot washing: Three volunteers may come forward to have their feet washed.During the foot washing the choir will sing the following Anthems:

Drop, drop slow tearsDrop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet,  which brought from heaven the news and Prince of Peace.Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat;  to cry for vengeance sin doth never cease.In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears;  nor let his eye see sin, but through my tears.

Words: Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650)Music: Song 46, Orlando Gibbons (1536-1625) arr. David Blackwell (b. 1961

Ave Verum Corpus Ave verum corpus,Natum de Maria virgine;Vere passum immolatumIn crucis pro homine.Cuius latus perforatumfluxit aqua et sanguine.Esto nobis praegustatumIn mortis examine.O Jesu dulcis, o Jesu pie,O Jesu Fili Mariae.

Hail, true body,Born of the virgin Mary;Who has truly suffered, slaughteredOn the Cross for humanity.Whose side was pierced,Pouring out water and blood.Be a foretaste for usDuring our ordeal of death.O sweet Jesus, o holy Jesus,O Jesus Son of Mary,

Flor Peeters (1903-1986)

Offertory Hymn: 318 O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray

1 O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray that all thy chruch might be for ever one, grant us at every Eucharist to say with longing heart and soul, ‘Thy will be done’: O may we all one bread, one body

3 We pray thee too for wanderers from thy fold O bring them back, good Shepherd of the sheep, back to the faith which saints believed of old, back to the church which still thy faith

be, through this blest sacrament of unity.

2 For all thy church, O Lord, we intercede make thou our sad divisions soon to cease; draw us the nearer each to each, we plead by drawing all to thee, O Prince of Peace thus may we all one bread, one body be through this blest sacrament of unity.

doth keep: soon may we all one bread, one body be, through this blest sacrament of unity.

4 So Lord, at length when sacraments shall cease, may we be one with all thy church above, one with thy saints in one unbroken peace, one with thy saints in thy unbounded love: more blessed still, in peace and love to be one with the Trinity in Unity.

William Turton 1856-1938

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Music: Festive Eucharist: Music for Common Worship Holy Communion Order One Noel Rawsthorne

After the Gloria we continue in the Lent Liturgy at the bottom of page 1.

Instead of the 10 Commandments, we hearThe Summary of the Law

The response to the Summary is: Amen. Lord, have mercy.

The Collect Almighty and everlasting God, who in your tender love towards mankind, sent your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, to take upon him our flesh, and to suffer death upon the cross, that all mankind should follow the example of his great humility: Mercifully grant, that we may both follow the example of his patience, and also be made partakers of his resurrection; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

Almighty and everlasting God, who hates nothing that you have made, and forgives the sins of all who are penitent: Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

First Reading: Exodus 12:1-11

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Gradual Psalm: 43

1  Give sentence with me O God, and defend my cause against the un’godly ’ people : O deliver me from the de’ceitful and ’ wicked ’ man.2  For thou art the God of my strength, why hast thou ’ put me ’ from thee : and why go I so heavily, while the ’ enemy op’presseth ’ me?3  O send out thy light and thy truth that ’ they may ’ lead me : and bring me unto thy holy ’ hill and ’ to thy ’ dwelling.4  And that I may go unto the altar of God, even unto the God of my ’ joy and ’ gladness : and upon the harp will give thanks unto ’ thee O ’ God my ’ God.5  Why art thou so heavy ’ O my ’ soul : and why art thou ’ so dis’quieted with’in me?6  O put thy ’ trust in ’ God : for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my ’ countenance ’ and my ’ God.Glory be to the Father ’ and to • the ’ Son : and ’ to the ’ Holy ’ Ghost;As it was in the beginning is ’ now and • ever ’ shall be : world without ’ end. A ’ — ’ men.

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part, for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal.

One goes hungry, another gets drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.

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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.Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgement on himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned along with the world. So then, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home so that when you come together it will not be for judgement. About the other things I will give directions when I come.

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

Gradual Hymn: 326 The heavenly Word, proceeding forth1 The heavenly Word, proceeding forth yet leaving not the Father’s side, accomplishing his work on earth had reached at length life’s eventide.

2 By false disciple to be given to foemen for his life athirst, himself, the very bread of heaven, he gave to his disciples first.

3 He gave himself in either kind, his precious flesh, his precious blood; in ove’s own fullness thus designed of the whole man to be the food.

4 By birth their fellow-man was he, their meat, when sitting at the board; he died, their ransomer to be; he ever reigns, their great reward.

Words: St Thomas Aquinas (1227-1274)

Tr. J.M. Neale, Edward Caswall and others.

Gospel: The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St Luke.

Sermon: Wim Kuiper