At St Anne's: Sharing and Remembering

Maundy Thursday and evening and a record turn out from St SAnne's, St James, & St Mary Magdalen gathered at St Anne's Hall for our annual Lord's Supper event.

It was on the night before he died that Jesus met with the disciples for the Last Supper.

Before the meal he took bread and said ' This is my body. Do this in remembrance of me.' After the meal he took the wine and said 'This cup is the new covenant in my blood, do this whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.'

All ready for the guests to arrive

We followed a similar pattern with an opening hymn, a reading from John 13 on the washing of the disciples feet, followed by a sermon from Jacob, and a Prayer of Thanksgiving for the Bread by Sir Simon Hughes, before we shared in the bread in remembrance of our saviour, Christ.

Then we had the meal:

After the meal Sam Adofo, Director of the Salmon Youth Centre, led a Prayer of Thankgiving for the Wine, we shared the wine together, and then, like the participants at the first Last Supper, we sang a hymn and departed.

It was a great evening of fellowship, of sharing, of remembering, of wondering and rejoicing at the amazing foot-washing-death-substituting love of God, all proclaimed to us in bread and wine: ''For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes."