A Dance For Maundy Thursday

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

The dance below is meant to express a note of joy in an otherwise sober service. The expression of joy in a service of sobriety reminds us of the gospel that is always present, even in the darkest moment.

Every day we should move as the resurrected body of Christ. Every Holy Thursday celebration should incorporate the joy of the Resurrection, even as we remember the crosses ahead; for the cross itself has meaning only in the context of Resurrection. The celebrational joy of the Lord's Supper...

 

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