With Washing of Feet, Stripping of the Altar and Watch of the Passion.
We commemorate Jesus’ institution of the Eucharist, the night before his death, where bread and wine are named as his body broken and his blood shed for humanity, to restore a people impoverished by sin and mortality into the endless life of God.
The President washes the feet of the people to remind us that, like our Lord, our calling is to serve others.
Bishop Dagmar will preach the third Address.
At the end of the Eucharist we hear the Gospel narrative of Jesus’ arrest, and the altar is stripped; its richness and beauty vanishes, to be replaced by darkness, emptiness, and disarray. We maintain a prayer vigil, a Watch in St Dunstan’s Chapel, remembering Jesus’ agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Music includes Palestrina’s Missa Brevis.

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