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“Could I make a personal request for as many of you as are able to come to a Maundy Thursday service and join in remembering the sequence of events, without which Palm Sunday to Easter Day do not come together, and it is THE story on which our faith is based,” invites Bishop Daniel Abot
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Church Hall
St Andrew’s, South Brisbane
160 Vulture St,
South Brisbane
A re-enactment of the Last Supper in a Christian context, including Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday. Entry by donation. RSVP essential by 10am Monday 14 April for seating assignment. See more.
“As a community, after the Easter Day service we celebrated the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with a big kai kai (feast). People from all over the Torres Strait Islands and Papua New Guinea (which was then still administered by Australia) came via sailing canoes rather than by motor boats, bringing seafood, taro, sweet potato, casava, sago and other traditional foods. We then had traditional dancing with men wearing headdresses made of emu feathers and women wearing grass skirts,” says Uncle Milton Walit from NATSIAC and The Parish of Laidley
“The elements of THAT Thursday include a bowl and towel, and wine and bread, and the knowledge He said, ‘Whenever you do this…remember me’, before His plea to simply love…The appalling injustice of ‘Good Friday’ is not something from long ago, it is happening even now,” says Bishop Cam Venables in his Maundy Thursday poem
“In that upper room, he gets down, presumably on his knees, calls for water and washes the feet of those who’ve travelled with him. It’s a real embodiment, a practical example, of the life of service that he is committed to and that he invites us to join,” says The Rev’d Dr Ruth Mathieson
“The Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services are not separate events, but are one liturgy, broken in the middle by a long night where solitary contemplation and prayer are the vehicles for each of us to wrestle with the violence and injustice of Jesus’ trial and punishment. There are some things that are only understood from within our own skin, knowing our own injustices and our own response to the violence we see in the world,” says The Rev’d Canon Sarah Plowman
“He took a bowl and a towel and he washed the feet of his disciples…Sometimes I think we may have missed the point when Jesus said, ‘Serve each other in the same way that I am serving you now.’ Sometimes I think in today’s world we’d say, ‘Don’t think that you’re too important not to do the things that everyone else takes for granted. So take your turn cleaning the toilet, doing the ironing, doing the washing, cutting the grass, doing those nitty gritty things that in lots of ways we take for granted in family life and in community life,” says Bishop Cam Venables
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