28C*
A Call to Worship
Maundy Thursday Year C 2010
Psalm 116: 1-2, 12-19

We raise the cup of salvation to our God and call on
the name of the Lord, as we rejoice in past blessings.
God has led us from our own wilderness experiences,
to new beginnings in the praise and worship of God.

We rejoice in the way God bends down low to listen
to our cries for mercy, help, strength and blessings.
We celebrate the way God has overcome our fears
and doubts, and kept all those ancient promises.

We raise the cup of salvation to our God and call
on the name of the Lord, as we come in worship.
In the house of the Lord we gather to praise God,
and to offer our sacrifice of thankfulness and praise. Amen

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Prayers of Thanksgiving
Maundy Thursday Year C 2010
Psalm 116: 1-2, 12-19

How gracious and generous is the Lord our God!
God even bends down low to listen to each of us
when we come in prayer and to praise our God.
O, how we love to sing and praise the Lord our God!

We continue to struggle with our doubts and fears,
and yet God listens so patiently to each individual person.
Each one of us is remembered as God’s belovèd child.
O, how we love to sing and praise the Lord our God!

Each of us are amazed at the depths of God’s love!
That love, mercy and grace of God s creates a response
of love and gratitude within the depths of our inner beings.
O, how we love to sing and praise the Lord our God!

Our honest and instinctive responses to the love of the Lord
our God are an individual and communal offering of praise
and thankfulness within the community of God’s faithful people.
We pray that all our offerings of praise to God are acceptable.
O, how we love to sing and praise the Lord our God and
together, we renew our commitment to the Lord our God.

Praise, honour, worship and glory are offered to the Lord our God!
We individually and as a community offer all that we are in praise
of God, and we seek to live to God’s praise and glory all of our days.
O, how we love to sing and praise the Lord our God and
together, we renew our commitment to the Lord our God.

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A Personal Meditation
Maundy Thursday Year C 2010
Psalm 116: 1-2, 12-19

What a gracious and generous God is the Lord my God!
I love the Lord my God for many reasons. This special
relationship is so very personal, as I am confident that I
am a belovèd child of God and unbelievably, I matter to God!



I have been examining the way I live my out conviction
that I am a child of God, and yes, I realise that I often fail!
I ask myself: “What happens when my faith in God falters?
Why do my doubt and fears cause me to turn away from God?”



Even as I struggle to understanding the ups and downs of
my life-long faith in God, the Lord my God draws nearer
to me, even bending down to listen to my fears and doubts.
Then I am reminded past blessings, and once again I am freed
from the bondage of fear and doubt, because I receive the
assurances that the Lord my God is still near and loves me in
the midst of these struggles - or even because of my struggles!



I am amazed by God’s goodness! How can I respond to that love?
Who and what am I that I dare to offer anything that would be
appropriate to give to such a God as the Holy One - whom I worship?



My response to God’s great love of me will be to love
and praise the Lord our God with every part of me being,
so that the whole of my life becomes a living illustration
of the effects of God’s goodness on me.



Gathered together within the sacred space of the worshipping
community, I will renew my covenant relationship with the Lord
our God. Together with all the community of the faithful, I rejoice
in the knowledge and experiences of God’s love and forgiving
mercy, and I wholeheartedly praise and bless God, the Holy One.

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Acknowledgements:
Unless stated otherwise, all Bible readings and extracts used in these weekly Prayers and Meditations are from
‘The New Revised Standard Version’ Copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council
of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

*The additional weekly numbering is from the Revised COCU Indexing Scheme
COCU = ('Consultation on Church Union'); as it offers an easy sequential numbering
for the Revised Common Lectionary for the Church Calendar.

If any part of these Prayers and/or Meditations is used in shared worship, please provide
the following acknowledgement:
© 2010 Joan Stott – ‘The Timeless Psalms’ RCL Psalms Year C. Used with permission.

jstott@netspace.net.au

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