During the final few minutes before the service, please respect the needs of those wishing to use the time for quiet preparation and then keep silence after the brief rehearsal with the Cantor.

When the organist starts to play the opening hymn, please stand and turn towards the West door as the Cross and Gospels are brought in, and then turn to follow them as they are carried forward.

ST JAMES’S CHURCH, PICCADILLY 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL Tel: 020 7734 4511 Fax: 020 7734 7449 E-mail: enquiries@sjp.org.uk • Website: www.sjp.org.uk Rector: The Revd Lucy Winkett. Clergy: The Revd Lindsay Meader (Associate Rector), The Revd Hugh Valentine Churchwardens: Joanna Hines, Tony Sanchez. Deputy Churchwardens: Tom Cook, Fiona Notman Director of Music & Organist: Malcolm Hicks. Cantor: Elizabeth Lil St James’s Church, Piccadilly: Registered Charity No. 1133048

17th April 2014 at 6.30pm

MAUNDY THURSDAY

Celebrant: The Revd Hugh Valentine • Preacher: The Revd Lindsay Meader

OPENING HYMN [Tune: Surrey; Words: Brian Wren (b.1936)]

Great God, your love has called us here, as we, by love, for love were made. Your living likeness still we bear, though marred, dishonoured, disobeyed. We come, with all one heart and mind your call to hear, your love to find.

Great God, in Christ you call our name and then receive us as your own, not through some merit, right or claim but by your gracious love alone. We strain to glimpse your mercy-seat and find you kneeling at our feet.

Then take the tow’l, and break the bread, and humble us, and call us friends. Suffer and serve till all are fed, and show how grandly love intends to work till all creation sings, to fill all worlds, to crown all things.

Great God, in Christ you set us free your life to live, your joy to share. Give us your Spirit's liberty to turn from guilt and dull despair and offer all that faith can do while love is making all things new.

THE WELCOMING OF THE PEOPLE Priest: Grace and peace from God and the Lord Jesus Christ be with you. ALL: And also with you.

ALL: Eternal God, to whom all hearts are open, all desires known,

We welcome you to this historic church in the heart of London. Our congregation comes from all over the world and from different branches of the Christian Church. We invite you to join heartily in the singing of hymns and responses.

During the Liturgy there will be foot-washing for all who want to join in. At the end of the service the altars will be ceremonially stripped. Those who do not wish to stay for the Watch that follows, are invited to leave quietly after this. We will then walk to ‘the Garden of Gethsemane’ picking up a lighted candle on the way and will place them in stands on arriving in ‘the Garden’. The Watch will then commence.

and from whom no secrets are hidden; cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you, and worthily magnify your holy name; through Christ our Lord. Amen.

PRAYER OF RECONCILIATION

Please kneel or sit.

ALL: Ever-loving God, we confess that we have sinned in thought, word and deed. We have not loved you with our whole heart. We have not loved our neighbours as ourselves. In your mercy forgive what we have been, help us to amend what we are, and direct what we shall be, that we may do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with you our God. Amen.

THE ABSOLUTION

THE GLORIA (Peruvian)

Please stand and sing after the Cantor:

Glory to God, Glory to God, glory in the highest! To God be glory for ever. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Amen.

Glory to God, Glory to God, glory to Christ Jesus! To God be glory for ever. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Amen.

Glory to God, Glory to God, glory to the Spirit! To God be glory for ever. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Amen. Alleluia, Amen.

LITURGY OF THE WORD The Collect (Prayer for the Day) Christ, whose feet were caressed with perfume and a woman’s hair; you took basin and towel and washed the feet of your friends. Wash us also that we may embrace your service freely, in your name. Amen

FIRST READING: 1 Corinthians 11.23-26.

HYMN [Tune: O Waly, Waly; Words: Frederick Pratt Green]

An upper room did our Lord prepare for those he loved until the end: and his disciples still gather there, to celebrate their risen friend.

A lasting gift Jesus gave his own: to share his bread, his loving cup. Whatever burdens may bow us down, he by his cross shall lift us up.

And after supper he washed their feet for service, too, is sacrament. In him our joy shall be made complete sent out to serve, as he was sent.

No end there is! We depart in peace, he loves beyond our uttermost: in ev’ry room in our Father’s house he will be there, as Lord and host.

The Gospel is carried in procession down the central aisle of the church where it is read among the people. Please turn and face the Gospel as it passes. GOSPEL: John 13.1-17, 31b-35.

SERMON: The Revd Lindsay Meader

The foot-washing begins with the clergy and team washing each other’s feet.

You are then invited to come up to have your feet washed. Please move either to the side chapel or to the front of the church on the left.

During the foot washing, the Lay Singers will sing Thomas Tallis’ ‘A New Commandment’…

A new commandment give I unto you,

saith the Lord, that ye love together,

as I have loved you,

that e'en so ye love one another.

By this shall ev'ry one know that ye are my disciples,

if ye have love one to another. After a period of silence, we sing a congregational Taizé chant:

ALL: Ubi caritas et amor, Ubi caritas Deus ibi est. (Where love and charity are found, God is there.)

THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

THE PEACE

OFFERTORY HYMN [Tune: Hyfrydol; Words: John Bell and Graeme Maule]

We who live by sound and symbol, we who learn from sight and word, find these married in the person of the one we call our Lord. Taking bread to be his body, taking wine to be his blood, he let thought take flesh in action, he let faith take root in food.

Not just once with special people, not just hidden deep in time, but wherever Christ is followed, earthly fare becomes sublime. Though to sound this seems a mystery, though to sense it seems absurd, yet in faith, which seems like folly, we meet Jesus Christ our Lord.

God, our Maker, send your Spirit to pervade the bread we break. Let it bring the life we long for and the love which we forsake. Bind us closer to each other, both forgiving and forgiven; give us grace in this and all things to discern the hand of heaven.

THANKSGIVING OVER THE BREAD AND WINE The priest gives thanks over the gifts. This finishes: Priest: . . . for everything in heaven and on earth is yours. ALL: All things come from you and of your own do we give you.

GATHERING (Taizé) All are invited to gather round the altar. Should you need to sit, please use any of the benches or seats around the altar at the front of the church. While moving to the altar, we sing: ALL: We come to share our story. We come to break the bread. We come to know our rising from the dead. (repeated)

The President leads the Church’s Thanksgiving for Creation and Redemption in Christ…….. Priest: The Lord be with you. ALL: And also with you. Priest: Lift up your hearts. ALL: We lift them to the Lord. Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. ALL: It is right to give thanks and praise.

The President continues the Church’s prayer of thanksgiving… SANCTUS Cantor: Holy, holy, holy Lord.* ALL: Holy, holy, holy Lord. God of heaven and earth adored. Ceasing never, God for ever, Holy Lord. (repeat as a round, second part starting at *)

The prayer of consecration continues recalling Christ’s command to his disciples at the Last Supper, ending with: “...as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me” Cantor: Praise to you Lord Jesus: ALL: Dying you destroyed death, rising you restored life. Come, O Christ. Come, O Christ, in glory.

The prayer continues… At the end of the prayer: ALL: (singing after the Cantor) Blessing and honour, glory and power, be yours for ever and ever. Amen.

THE LORD’S PRAYER ALL: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our sins

as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever. Amen.

The Bread is broken:

Priest: We break this bread to share in the Body of Christ. ALL: Though we are many, we are one body, because we all share in one bread. AGNUS DEI Cantor: Agnus Dei ALL: qui tollis peccata, peccata mundi, Miserere nobis, miserere nobis, miserere nobis. Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata, peccata mundi, Dona nobis pacem, dona nobis pacem, dona nobis pacem. (Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, have mercy on us. Grant us peace.)

COMMUNION

Please join us to receive Communion, or a blessing.

After you have received Communion, please return to your seat in silence, in preparation for the stripping of the altar.

During Communion, the Lay Singers will sing Elgar's 'O salutaris hostias' …

O salutaris hostias, quae caeli pandis ostium: bella premunt hostilia, da robur, fer auxilium. Uni trinoque Domino sit sempiterna gloria, qui vitam sine termino nobis donet in patria. Amen.

O saving Victim, open wide the gate of heaven to man below; our foes press on from every side; thine aid supply; thy strength bestow. All praise and thanks to thee ascend for evermore, blest One in Three; O grant us life that shall not end in our true native land with thee.

CEREMONIAL STRIPPING OF THE ALTAR

PRELUDE TO THE VIGIL We make the journey to the ‘Garden of Gethsemane’ singing the hymn ‘My song is love unknown’. This starts from the front of the centre aisle and is lead by the clergy; please come out into the aisle at the beginning of the hymn.

We sing as we go. Everyone takes a lighted candle from the wardens and servers when they reach the back of the church before going outside. When we come back into the church and reach the ‘garden’, everyone places their candle in a stand in front of the altar and returns to their place for the vigil.

HYMN [Tune: Love Unknown; Words: Samuel Crossman (c.1624-1684) alt.]

My song is love unknown, my Saviour's love to me, love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be.

O who am I, that for my sake, my Lord should take frail flesh, and die?

He came from his blest throne, salvation to bestow; but folk made strange, and none the longed-for Christ would know. But O, my friend, my friend indeed, who at my need his life did spend!

Sometimes they strew his way, and his sweet praises sing; resounding all the day hosannas to their King: then 'Crucify!' is all their breath, and for his death they thirst and cry.

Why, what hath my Lord done? What makes this rage and spite? He made the lame to run, he gave the blind their sight. Sweet injuries! Yet they at these themselves displease, and 'gainst him rise.

They rise, and needs will have my dear Lord made away; a murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay. Yet cheerful he to suff’ring goes, that he his foes from thence might free.

In life, no house, no home my Lord on earth might have; in death, no friendly tomb but what a stranger gave. What may I say? Heav’n was his home; but mine the tomb wherein he lay.

Here might I stay and sing. no story so divine; never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine. This is my friend in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend.

Following the hymn, we sing congregational chants as we move in procession through the garden and courtyard…

ALL: O Lord hear my prayer, O Lord hear my prayer, When I call answer me. O Lord hear my prayer, O Lord hear my prayer, Come and listen to me.

ALL: Stay with me, remain here with me. Watch and pray.

Watch and pray.

The Watch continues in the main body of the church for those who wish to stay. It will begin with silence and then readings and chants, each half hour, until 10.00pm.

If you would like to leave now, please do so in silence.

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER

Good Friday - 18th April

8.30am Morning Prayer

in the side chapel

12.00 noon The Three Hours Darkness came over the whole land with Scripture, music, and silence in contemplation of the Crucifixion Easter Eve - Saturday 19th April

7.30pm Vespers

10.00pm Compline

followed by all-night Vigil If you would like to join the vigil, please contact the Vestry on 020 7292 4865 Easter Day - Sunday 20th April

5.45am Easter Dawn Eucharist in the garden

11.00am Parish Eucharist for Easter Preacher: The Revd Hugh Valentine