Seder Haggadah

What makes this night different from all other nights?

At table with his friends commemorating God’s deliverance of Israel from slavery, Jesus took the bread and the wine, and presented them as his body, his blood, and himself.  “Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us...” wrote St. Paul many years later.

Holy Cross celebrates our deliverance from slavery to sin on Maundy Thursday with a Seder supper liturgy appropriate for all ages. The meal is served in the church and all participate in the liturgy, passing the microphone as we read through our own adaptation of the haggadah.  At the fourth cup, Elijah’s cup, we celebrate the Lord’s Supper as Christ may have done with his disciples in the upper room.

The service turns solemn and ends in darkness with the stripping of the altar.  The table top is revealed to be the burial slab prepared to receive Christ’s body. 

Children as young as four years old “get it.”

“Do this in remembrance of me.” Jesus