Thoughts from Sara:
For the past 10 years, our Maundy Thursday service at PCC has been in the Fellowship Hall around the supper table. A fellowship supper has been a part of the communion service as we gather in our own "upper room." This year instead of a fellowship supper we made our Narthex a "Jerusalem Marketplace" with different stalls of oranges, melons, dates and figs, cheeses and yogurt with honey, baked goods and spices all around the Narthex. The palms from Palm Sunday graced the tables reminding us what week it was. The aroma was wonderful, the fellowship a joy, and we moved from the Narthex streets of Jerusalem into our fellowship hall for communion, maybe the way the disciples had walked through the streets amid the noise and vendors and aromas of spices and maybe even stopped for a bite to eat in the old city of Jerusalem before they had their own "last supper."
One of our elders, whose vision of the marketplace helped make it come alive, told me that for her Maundy Thursday was very special because it made her think: "if this were my last meal I can't imagine a better place to spend the time than here at church with my friends."
A Holy Thursday indeed.
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