Eucharist with address and foot-washing, followed by The Watch and Compline

Maundy Thursday gets its name from the Latin word mandatum meaning to command, as we remember Jesus' command: 'Love one another as I have loved you'. 

It is the day when we remember Jesus sharing the Last Supper with his disciples and commanding them to do the same with bread and wine in the future. Jesus also washed the disciples' feet, and this will be recreated in the Cathedral as a reminder of the kind of service we are meant to demonstrate in our love for one another.

At the end of the service, the Cathedral is stripped of all ornamentation and we remember Jesus’ agony and arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane, when his disciples abandoned him. Can we stay and watch with him?

With the Nave Choir

Entrance for this service will be through the Southwest porch