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The Mass of the Lord's Supper, also known as A Service of Worship for Maundy Thursday, is a Holy Week service celebrated on the evening of Maundy Thursday.[1][2] It inaugurates the Easter Triduum,[3] and commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, more explicitly than other celebrations of the Mass.
The Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions, as well as some Reformed (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches) traditions celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper (or the Liturgy of Maundy Thursday).[1][4][5] A comparable service is celebrated in the Orthodox Church.
The Mass stresses three aspects of that event: "the institution of the Eucharist, the institution of the ministerial priesthood, and the commandment of brotherly love that Jesus gave after washing the feet of his disciples."[6]
In Lutheranism, the Maundy Thursday liturgy is found in the Lutheran Service Book and Evangelical Lutheran Worship, among other service books. In Anglicanism, these rites are found in the Book of Common Prayer,[7] as well as in the Anglican Missal.[8] In Methodism, they are found in the Book of Worship for Church and Home and The United Methodist Book of Worship, among other liturgical texts. The Orthodox equivalent is found in the Triodion, with the Washing of Feet in some editions of the Euchologion.
Observed in the Roman Catholic Church, Maundy Thursday appears on the Lutheran, Anglican, and many Reformed liturgical calendars and is almost universally celebrated with the Lord's Supper.