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MAUNDY THURSDAY
10:00 AM RITE I
COORINDATING INSTRUCTIONS:
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All Ordained and Lay Ministers must be in Sacristy no later than 30 prior to start of
service.
Reader must check in by 30 minutes prior to start of service.
Acolytes
Altar Guild
LEM/Lectors
RAMBO
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Adult can be Crucifer and 1st Server if youth not available
Make sure candles are lit
Hangings are WHITE
Communion at High Altar only
Set up as for normal7:30 Sunday
Enough wine & hosts for serving communion in Chapel for
evening service
No Lector, Intercessor only
Mark Bible for readings, put on Lectern
 Celebrant, Deacon, and Sub Deacon are miked as usual
Ushers
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Need 2 Ushers
Regular collection at offering
Other
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Music at this service (hymnody-no choir)
 Processional hymn
 Kyrie S-91
 Sequence hymn
 No offertory hymn
 Processional
I. PROCESSION
A. Process down main aisle with wood crucifix
B. Processional hymn begins during 10:00 bell
C. Process to Altar as usual
II. ENTRANCE RITE
A. Line up at altar rail, reverence, enter Sanctuary
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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
Lenten acclamation: Celebrant; said
Collect for Purity: Celebrant; said
Organ leads in Kyrie S-91
Collect of the day: Celebrant; said
After the Collect of the Day, Lector moves to Lectern for the reading
III. THE LITURGY OF THE WORD (SIMILAR TO 11:00 SUNDAY)
A. Lessons
1. Epistle
a. read by Lector from the Lectern
b. (If SD: process down after collect, and return to sanctuary after
reading)
2. Sequence Hymn; Deacon processes from sanctuary to Lectern
3. Gospel:
a. Deacon; said from the Lectern.
b. Return to sanctuary after reading
B. Sermon
C. Holy Silence
D. Creed; from Altar
E. Prayers for the Whole State of Christ’s Church: Intercessor from center of the
Nave
F. General Confession: Deacon leads from altar
G. Absolution & Comfortable words: Celebrant from altar
NOTE: on this day the peace is not exchanged for it was on this night with
the kiss of peace that Judas betrayed our Lord
IV. HOLY COMMUNION (SIMILAR TO 7:30 SUNDAY)
A. Offertory
1. Offertory sentence immediately follows absolution
2. C puts on chasuble and takes seat
3. S-D assists C, takes seat next to C
4. D ascends to altar; sets table, server assists
a. Table is set with oblations from credence table
b. Consecrate enough elements for the Chapel at the evening service
c. server brings items to Deacon
(1) stack :
(a) Deacon:
(i) set corporal center along rear edge of altar,
(ii) place paten with priest host to left of corporal,
(iii) place burse & pall to left of corporal
(iv) place purificator along left edge of corporal
(v) place chalice on corporal
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(2) bread (whatever ciboria are being used)- placed to left of
corporal
(3) water & wine (including any additional flagons that may be
consecrated)
(a) Deacon:
(i) prepares chalice & flagon on corporal
(ii) receives opened cruet of water—holds up for C
to bless, and prepares chalice, and flagon with a
splash of water.
(iii) Returns water to server.
(iv) Places flagon and chalice covered with pall to
left side of corporal
(4) Altar Book: set Sursum Corda, preface for Holy Week,
Eucharistic Prayer 1, Post-Communion Prayer
d. Deacon faces altar, reverences, faces Celebrant, reverences, and
moves to gospel side of altar
e. Celebrant, Sub-Deacon. stand and move to positions behind altar
5. Procession
a. Ushers take up collection and process to bottom of the chancel
stairs
b. Server meets usher and brings offering to altar, handing it to
Celebrant.
c. Celebrant. receives collection, leads congregation in offertory
versicle: “All thing come of thee O Lord, and of thine own have we
given thee”
B. Great Thanksgiving Rite I, Prayer 1
1. Sursum Corda, Preface for Holy Week, Sanctus: Celebrant; said
2. Lords Prayer: said
3. Fraction Anthem: Agnus Dei:
a. Note change in Agnus Dei: last refrain is ...”have mercy upon us.”
4. Prayer of Humble Access
a. Deacon retrieves reserved sacrament from tabernacle during
prayer of Humble Access
5. Invitation
a. Server closes gate after invitation
C. Communion
V. POST-COMMUNION
A. Ablutions
1. Items are removed to working sacristy and abluted by Deacon after
service
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B. Post Communion Prayer
C. Lenten Prayer in place of Blessing
D. Dismissal
VI. EXIT PROCESSION: out main aisle
Note: following service- Deacon assists altar guild in set up for the evening
service.. Enough elements need to be consecrated to commune evening service
and both Good Friday services
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6:00 PM RITE I SOLEMN EUCHARIST
COORINDATING INSTRUCTIONS:
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SERVICE BEGINS AT 6:00 PM!!
All Ordained and Lay Ministers must be in Sacristy no later than 30 prior to start of
service.
All Readers must check in by 30 minutes prior to start of service.
Clergy
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Acolytes
Altar Guild
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Bulletins
LEM/Lectors
RAMBO
Ushers
No Intercessor, Deacon will chant
 Celebrant, Deacon, and Sub Deacon are miked as usual
 Light in gallery during Psalm 22 so choir can see to sing.
 See details for lighting below
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All available clergy will con-celebrate
Clergy will process with cassock under amice, alb, and
chasuble
Only Celebrant wears Cope
Rector will announce responsibilities for Stripping of Altar:
o High Altar
o Baptistery
o Chapel
o Chancel (pulpit, lectern)
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1 and 2ndServer,1st and 2nd Crucifer Team, Thurifer & Boat
Make sure candles are lit
Hangings are WHITE
Basins and Ewers of water placed beside the bench. Towels
placed on the benches in the Chancel
3 Priests Host in Ciborium, and at least 300 hosts over and
above what is required for this Eucharist (Check total numbers
for attendance at all Good Friday communion services for prior
year.
Baptistery and Chapel both open for Communion.
Credence Table: setup will be as 9AM Sunday
Celebrant’s and Deacon’s Chasuble arranged on Altar rail:
Celebrant’s on the Epistle side and Deacon’s on the Gospel
side.
NO votive candles
Holy water stoops need to be emptied prior to service
Reserve front pew, pulpit side, for con-celebrating clergy
Reserve balcony for choir
At Communion keep lines full for Baptistery, High Altar, and
Chapel.
Choir receives Communion first
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MC / Verger
Check to make sure there is a Bible and small flashlight on the
Priest’s Prayer Desk on the pulpit side. Bible is marked for
Matthew 26:30, 36-56
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Other
During stripping: ensure that wine, water, towels used in
washing the Chapel and High Altar are not removed
from Credence Table BEFORE both altars are ablated.
Supervise preparation of Thurible
Make sure that flashlight and marked Bible are on pulpit
side before beginning of service (coordinate with
Ushers)
Ensure all candles are lit
Ensure Sexton has disabled Fire Alarm.
 Call Fire Alarm Monitoring Station: 371-7777
 Our Account number: CDH 6340, passcode:1111
 Tell them to put the system on “TEST” until
midnight.
Rector will designate who will be in control of lights and brief them
on procedures.
Prayer Intercession list needs to be printed up prior to service
Prayers of People need to be printed up with names included and
placed in Sub Deacon’s Book.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIGHTING Maundy Thursday Evening Mass
1.
RAMBO will not control the lighting once people begin receiving communion. All
lights are controlled from the lighting box next to the organ, by Carolyn Peet.
2.
After all have received communion, Carolyn Peet goes to the “tunnel” and turns
off, at the box, lights 7, 12, 16, 23 and top wall switch for exit lights at rear of church (5
switches have yellow smiley faces on them). She stays in the choir area, next to the
light box.
3.
Full house lights are on (Scene 3) during the singing of Hymn 329 (Now my
tongue the mystery telling).
4.
At the end of Hymn 329, and after the procession with the Blessed Sacrament
has completely left the church, Carolyn pushes Scene 9.
5.
When all of the activity in the sanctuaries (stripping of the altars) has ceased,
and the priests are seated in the choir pews, Carolyn pushes lights OFF (button directly
under Scene 8). The account of Jesus’ agony in the garden is then read. After a minute
of silence, the clergy and assistants leave the choir area and Carolyn presses 10, and
turns on #12 (narthex light) in the tunnel. This gives enough light for people to safely
walk out of the church.
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I. PROCESSION:
A. Regular procession up main aisle to altar rail.
B. Reverence, enter Sanctuary following Celebrant.
II. ENTRANCE RITE
A. Lenten acclamation: Celebrant; Lenten chant
B. Gloria
1. (Misa Marialis): Sung in unison
2. Incense made and Altar censed during Gloria
C. Collect of the Day: Celebrant; Lenten chant
III. THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
A. Lessons
1. Old Testament: Lay reader
a. Reader process to lectern during the Collect of the Day
2. Psalm: responsorial by Choir
3. Epistle: Sub-Deacon; (chanted by SD from top of steps otherwise..)
process to Lectern during Psalm; led by Verger
4. Sequence Hymn
a. Gospel procession lines up facing altar
b. Deacon procures Gospel Book from altar, goes to Celebrant,
kneels for blessing.
c. After blessing; Deacon moves to enter facing altar, Sub-Deacon
lines up behind Deacon, all reverence and process to center nave.
B. Gospel: chanted by Deacon
1. Gospel censed following Intro to reading
2. After reading, Sub-Deacon takes gospel book, procession back to
sanctuary as normal.
C. Sermon
D. The Washing of the Feet
1. After sermon Celebrant goes to top of stairs and reads the introduction to
the foot washing and then invites people scheduled to have their feet washed
to come forward
2. While those selected come forward, the Deacon or appointed Priest leads
in Mandatum and anthems (BCP, p 274) and Choir responds
3. Hymn 602 is sung toward the end of the washing at Choir masters
discretion
4. After washing feet,
a. Celebrant returns to Sanctuary,
b. Deacon and Sub-Deacon line up at altar to receive him.
c. MC removes towels & basin through tunnel to sacristy.
E. Prayers of the People
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1. Celebrant gives individual intercessions
2. Form I Prayer then Chanted by Deacon in place before Altar
3. Celebrant finishes with concluding Collect chanted
F. Confession of Sin: Deacon leads
G. Absolution: Celebrant
NO PEACE: ON THIS DAY THE PEACE IS NOT EXCHANGED FOR IT WAS ON
THIS NIGHT WITH THE KISS OF PEACE THAT JUDAS BETRAYED OUR LORD
IV. HOLY COMMUNION
A. Offertory
1. Offertory sentence (follows immediately after absolution)
a. following offertory sentence Celebrant, Deacon ,Sub-Deacon line
up altar center, reverence then:
b. Celebrant puts on chasuble and sits in sedelia,
c. Sub-Deacon assists Celebrant then sits with him.
d. Concelebrating clergy come up into sanctuary, stand to sides
2. Deacon ascends to altar to set altar
a. places Gospel book to far left,
b. receives the burse & pall from 1st server, sets corporal
c. receives smooth ciborium (baptistery), placing it off to left of
corporal
d. receives Altar Book from server and sets it for service:
(1) Sursum Corda
(2) Preface for Holy Week, Rite 2, Simple
(3) Eucharistic Prayer A
(4) Post Communion Prayer 1
e. reverence altar, Celebrant, and then takes seat on gospel side
3. Offertory Procession
a. When Procession begins down main aisle,
(1) 1st server procures stack and presents to Sub-Deacon.
(2) Deacon, Sub-Deacon (holding stack), servers line up,
reverence altar, turn to receive procession.
b. When procession arrives at altar rail and is lined up:
(1) servers take collection and food to altar.
(2) 2nd server places food on left side of altar and moves to
seat
(3) 1st server hands collection to Celebrant, descends to
credence table and procures banded flagon (baptistery), hands
flagon to Sub-Deacon, then stands to left.
c. When servers ascend to altar with collection and food, Deacon:
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(1) goes to Sub-Deacon and takes Paten,
(2) moves to person carrying ciborium (who removes the lid off
the ciborium), remove the priest host and put it on the paten,
(3) retrieve the ciborium from the lay person (who replaces the
lid) and present both to the Celebrant at the altar .
d. After presenting the hosts to the Celebrant, Deacon:
(1) returns to S-D and retrieves chalice, goes to lay person
carrying water, take water flagon with lid open, turn to
Celebrant, hold flagon up for blessing.
(2) Then prepare large flagon with splash of water, go to S-D
prepare banded flagon with a splash of water, hand water flagon
to 1st server
(3) return to lay person with large flagon, receive flagon and
pour prepared wine into chalice, about 1/3rd full
(4) take chalice and flagon to altar, with S-D presenting banded
flagon, present chalice to C, place flagons on corporal
e. D & S-D descend, turn to face altar, reverence and go to places at
Epistle side back of altar . Deacon in place for censing.
B. No doxology – presentation hymn
C. Censing
1. after presentation, choir starts censing hymn,
2. C makes incense at altar right rear with Thurifer, Boat Boy; censes altar,
returns to right rear of altar; hands thurible to Deacon.
3. BB moves to sacristy doorway after making incense and stays there until
after censing
4. Deacon censes Celebrant.
5. Deacon & Thurifer move to front of altar, cense any clergy in sanctuary,
move into choir to cense clergy, return to sanctuary
6. Deacon censes S-D,
7. D gives Thurifer to T. T censes D, D moves to place at side of altar,
8. After censing, Deacon, (if priest) takes off Dalmatic, puts on Chasuble,
and joins the end of the Clergy on the Gospel side.
9. T censes altar party, turns censes choir, right , left, faces altar,
reverences, goes to top of chancel stairs, censes congregation, returns to
altar, kneels center to cense at elevations
10. BB joins Thurifer at altar, kneeling
D. Great Thanksgiving: Eucharistic Prayer A
NOTE: THERE ARE TWO PRIESTS HOSTS IN THE CIBORIUM TO BE
CONSECRATED FOR FRIDAY- DO NOT REMOVE, DO NOT BREAK
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1. After Celebrant washes hands, Priests assemble to con-celebrate behind
the Altar
2. Priests con-celebrate. Raise and extend right hand during words of
institution ( “Take, eat.., Drink this..”) and Epiclesis (“Sanctify them..”)
3. Sursum Corda, Preface Chanted
a. D & S-D ascend to back of altar at the words: “Lift up your hearts”
4. Sanctus: sung
5. T censes altar at three elevations
6. End of canon, Lords Prayer: chanted
7. Agnus Dei chanted as fraction anthem
8. T, BB exit on the Lords Prayer to acolyte room, leave items, return for
communion
E. Priests communicate themselves – then those assigned move to
Baptistery/Chapel. 2nd Server closes gates.
F. Choir receives communion first, then moves to balcony for rest of service
G. After invitation to Communion,
1. priest / administrators, lay chalicers move to positions,
2. 2nd S closes gate after priest have left for communion station.
V. POST-COMMUNION
A. After communion all Clergy assemble at Altar and help with Ablutions:
1. All the wine is consumed,
2. hosts consolidated in large Ciborium, with the two consecrated priests
hosts.
3. After Ablutions, empty vessels are removed to Sacristy.
B. Assisting Priests leave sanctuary and return to their seats.
C. Deacon removes Chasuble, puts on Dalmatic, turn off mic., goes to sacristy
door and puts on Humoral Veil
D. Sub-Deacon, Deacon, and Celebrant take places in front of Altar.
E. Celebrant leads the Post Communion Prayer
VI. PROCESSION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
A. Hymn 329 starts right after Post-Communion prayer
B. Thurifer comes out, Celebrant makes incense, all kneel
C. Celebrant bows, censes Sacrament, bows;
D. Celebrant and Sub-Deacon stand and go to their seats on the sides and kneel
E. After Celebrant and Sub-Deacon are kneeling on the side, procession lines up:
Thurifer, Boat-Boy, 1st Crucifer and Torches, Deacon with Ciborium
F. Process down main aisle to Altar of Repose
G. Lights
1. stay up during Hymn 329.
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2. Lights are down after. Down for Psalm 22 EXCEPT LIGHTS IN
GALLERY- Choir needs light to sing.
3. Gallery Lights off when Psalm 22 is finished.
H. At the Altar of Repose
1. THURIFER STAYS OUTSIDE—NO INCENSE IN CHAPEL
2. Deacon places Ciborium on the Altar of Repose in front of the Tabernacle.
3. Deacon lights the candles and the Sanctuary light.
4. Crucifer and Torches line up behind the Deacon. All kneel.
5. Deacon rises, puts ciborium in the Tabernacle, genuflects, and all process
back to the Sacristy through the side door near the Acolyte Room.
6. Altar Guild at door - unlocks or hold open.
7. Deacon and processional party return through the side door near the
Acolyte Room, remove Dalmatic, Surplice, external vestments, reenter
Sanctuary garbed only in Cassock to help in the stripping
VII.
STRIPPING OF THE ALTAR
A. Stripping begins as soon as Hymn 329 is over.
B. Lights
1. Nave lights are turned off
2. Sanctuary lights remain on but dimmed.
C. Acolytes
1. remove surplices, hand them to MC, and take seats in the choir if you are
not assisting in the stripping of the altar
2. Servers extinguish candles as directed by MC
3. Thurifer- help the celebrant at the high altar
D. Priests de-vest to cassock, Acolyte Warden picks up priests chasubles, albs,
cinctures; go to and strip areas assigned
E. Altar party strips to cassock, assist in stripping altars
F. After stripping Altar, all reenter into Choir seats
G. Celebrant goes to jump seat and reads Gethsemane passage
1. After reading – time of silence is observed.
2. Lights come on dimly, leave in silence and clergy and servers leave
through tunnel.
VIII. CONCLUSION OF SERVICE: Rector gets up - lights come up dim for
people to exit.
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Appendix:
Instructions for Lighting at the Maundy Thursday Evening Mass
1.
RAMBO will not control the lighting once people begin receiving communion. All lights
are controlled from the lighting box next to the organ, by Carolyn Peet.
2.
After all have received communion, Carolyn Peet goes to the “tunnel” and turns off, at
the box, lights 7, 12, 16, 23 and top wall switch for exit lights at rear of church (5 switches
have yellow smiley faces on them). She stays in the choir area, next to the light box.
3.
Full house lights are on (Scene 3) during the singing of Hymn 329 (Now my tongue the
mystery telling).
4.
At the end of Hymn 329, and after the procession with the Blessed Sacrament has
completely left the church, Carolyn pushes Scene 9.
5.
When all of the activity in the sanctuaries (stripping of the altars) has ceased, and the
priests are seated in the choir pews, Carolyn pushes lights OFF (button directly under Scene
8). The account of Jesus’ agony in the garden is then read. After a minute of silence, the
clergy and assistants leave the choir area and Carolyn presses 10, and turns on #12 (narthex
light) in the tunnel. This gives enough light for people to safely walk out of the church.
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