Thank you for joining us for this live stream (or recording, as the case may be) of our Maundy Thursday worship. May it bless you! You may need to click “Play” to launch the stream, which will be live around 6:50 PM.
This service includes the celebration of Holy Communion. If you will be worshiping from home, please prepare and have ready some bread or other staple food and grape juice or another beverage for that portion of the service.
Welcome to the live stream of worship from Church of the Holy Cross for Maundy Thursday, April 17, 2025. You will find the service outline below, and you may download and print the PDF to follow more easily.
Service of Worship April 17, 2025
Maundy Thursday
Holy Communion and Tenebrae
Rev. Eric S. Anderson, Pastor
Rev. Dr. Diane Weible, Sabbatical Interim Pastor
Rev. Sitau Ofoia, Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa
WE GATHER TO WORSHIP GOD
Please note that audio and video of this service are being live streamed on the Internet and will be recorded. The right rear section of the sanctuary will not be captured by any cameras. Please be aware that in other sections you may be visible at times.
Prelude: The Upper Room Kayleen Yuda
Please rise if you are able
*Call to Worship Rev. Dr. Diane Weible
Leader: When Jesus sat at table with his friends, they gathered to recall the mighty
acts of God which won the freedom of their oppressed people.
People: This evening we recall the mighty acts of God which won our freedom
from the oppressions of sin and death.
Leader: Our Savior did not lead an exodus, or make himself a general, or guide a nation
to a Promised Land.
People: He gave his friends the bread and wine of Passover by which they might
remember him, then walked into the shadows of betrayal and of death.
Leader: This evening, let us fill our hearts with Christ, and join him at the table.
People: This evening, let us fill our hearts with Christ, and join him in the
shadows.
* Opening Hymn #345: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (v. 1-3)
* Please join me in the Prayer of Confession Rev. Dr. Diane Weible
Giver of Life, from ancient time you call us to yourself.
In ways too numerous to mention, we fail to respond.
Forgive us, we pray.
Our limited understanding of culture
gets in the way of fellowship
with those different from ourselves.
Our limited vision of community
gets in the way of your call
to accept the cost and joy of discipleship,
to seek justice and peace for all.
Replace our arrogance, Merciful One,
with the humility and caring service Jesus modeled,
for truly we are not greater than our Teacher and Savior. Amen.
Assurance of Pardon Rev. Dr. Diane Weible
Please be seated
WE SHARE THE WORD OF GOD
Scripture: John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Rev. Dr. Diane Weible
Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put it into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot to betray him. And during supper Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’ Jesus answered, ‘You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand.’ Peter said to him, ‘You will never wash my feet.’ Jesus answered, ‘Unless I 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, ‘One who has bathed does not need to wash, except for the feet, but is entirely clean. And you[c] are clean, though not all of you.’ For he knew who was to betray him; for this reason he said, ‘Not all of you are clean.’
After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, ‘Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord—and you are right, for that is what I am. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Very truly, I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.” I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’
Reflection Rev Dr. Diane Weible
We Come to the Table of God
Hymn #227: Christ at Table There with Friends (v. 1 and 4; please remain seated)
Holy Communion Rev. Dr. Diane Weible
Rev. Sitau Ofoia, Jr.
Voice 1: When it was evening, Jesus took his place with his disciples, and while they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.”
Voice 2: “Who? Who will betray you? They all wondered. Surely not me. Tell us who, Jesus.
Voice 1: “The one who dips his hand into the dish with me.”
Voice 2: But that’s all of us. We’ve all shared this common meal.
Silence
The Lord be with you
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks unto the Lord.
It is right to give God thanks and praise.
Invitation
Consecrating the Bread and Cup
Sharing the Bread and Cup
Prayer of Thanksgiving
* Hymn #226: O Sacred Head Now Wounded (v. 1-2)
WE JOURNEY TO THE SHADOWS WITH GOD
Service of Tenebrae
Lighting of the Candles
The Shadow of Betrayal: Matthew 26:20-25 Momi Lyman
The Shadow of Desertion: Matthew 26:31-35 Veterinary Tavila
Hymn #225: It Was a Sad and Solemn Night (v. 1-2; please remain seated)
The Agony of the Soul: Luke 22:39-44 Woody Kita
The Unshared Vigil: Mark 14:32-41 Anne Sadayasu
O Ai Ea Le Tagata (please remain seated) CCCAS Choir
“Father the hour is come”: John 17:1-6 Joyce Nakamoto
“That they may all be one”: John 17:15-22 Lorraine Davis
Hymn #224: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (v. 1-2; please remain seated)
The Arrest in the Garden: John 18:1-5 Jennifer Tanouye
The Shadow of the Cross: Mark 15:16-20 Gloria Kobayashi
Were You There? Handbell Choir
The Light is removed
The Shadow of Denial: Matthew 26:69-75 Stefan Tanouye
The Shadow of Burial: Matthew 27:57-60 Peter Braun
Hymn #229 Were You There? (v. 1-2; please remain seated)
The Word was God: John 1:1-4, 14, 10, 12, 3:19 Rev. Dr. Diane Weible
The Darkness
Please join me in The Lord’s Prayer
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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. 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.
Depart in Silence
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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Text from the Liturgy of St. James, 4th cent.
Trans. Gerard Moultrie, 1864
Tune PICARDY 17th cent. French carol
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Christ at Table There with Friends
Text by Anabel S. Miller, 1982
Text: © 1982/2003, Zimbel Press
Tune by Emma Lou Diemer, 1992
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O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
Text attrib. to Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th cent.
Trans. James W. Alexander, 1830
Tune PASSION CHORALE by Hans Leo Hassler, 1601
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It Was a Sad and Solemn Night
Text by Isaac Watts, 1709
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When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Text by Isaac Watts, 1707
Tune HAMBURG by Lowell Mason, 1825
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Were You There?
Text and Tune: African-American spiritual
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Other Faith Groups that meet at Church of the Holy Cross
The United Church of Christ, Pohnpei – Sanctuary, 12 noon
Rev. Bensis Henry
Congregational Christian Church of American Samoa – Sanctuary, 2:00 p.m.
Rev. Sitau Ofoia, Jr.
The Bedesta Church – Sanctuary, 4 p.m.
Rev. Edmes Edwin
Pastor Rev. Eric S. Anderson
Sabbatical Interim Pastor Rev. Dr. Diane Weible
Moderator Stefan Tanouye
Organist Kayleen Yuda
Hand Bell Director Anna Kennedy
Hymn Leader Chandra Oshima
Projected Imagery Sue Smith
Web Master Ruth Niino-DuPonte
Videographers Eric Tanouye, Bob Smith, Eli Yamaki,
Mace Peng, Cindy Debus
Sound Director Ben Yamaki
Sunday School Teacher Gloria Kobayashi
Sunday School Aide Johanna Narruhn
Church Office Manager Pearl Momi Lyman
