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Meade Memorial Episcopal Church

Maundy Thursday

4/5/2012
6:00pm
Meade Church
322 North Alfred Street 
Alexandria, VA 22314
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6:00pm

Agape Meal

Donation: $5.00

The word agape in its plural form is used in the New Testament to describe a meal or feast eaten by early Christians, as in Jude 1:12, and 2nd Peter 2:13. It is sometimes believed to be either related to the Eucharist, or another term used for the Eucharist.

  

 7:30 pm

Foot Washing and Stripping of the Altar w/ the Lord’s Supper

 

Foot washing or washing of feet is a religious rite observed as an ordinance by several Christian denominations. For some denominations, foot-washing was an example, a pattern. Many groups throughout church history and many modern denominations have practiced literal foot washing as a church ordinance. John 13:1-17 mentions Jesus performing his act. Specifically, in Verses 13:14-17 he instructs them, "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."

 

Stripping of the Altar: The liturgical action of stripping an altar and, if possible, removing all crosses from a church after the Mass on Holy Thursday. This is to symbolize the suspension of Mass until the Easter Vigil and the stripping of Christ's garments before the Crucifixion.