Closing Prayer for Holy (Maundy) Thursday. 8 Prayers to Pray Each Day of Holy Week. This was the gift of Your most Sacred Body and Blood, soon to be broken and poured out on the Cross for the salvation of the world. Here are 8 meaningful prayers, one for each day from Palm Sunday to Easter, to walk you through Holy Week. On our Holy Week calendar we call today Maundy, or “Mandate” Thursday. It’s a day in the history of redemption brimming over with glory and grace. Passover will soon become the Lord’s Supper—your supper. 8 Prayers to Pray Each Day of Holy Week. But this was no ordinary meal. Our Holy Thursday Dinner Menu: Roast Beef or Lamb (Reminder of the Passover Lamb, and Christ the Paschal Lamb) Mashed or Roasted Potatoes (allergy free) Spinach (reminder of the bitter herbs) Carrots and Celery sticks (in salt water) Applesauce (reminder of the … Prayer Meditation for Holy Thursday My Most Precious Lord Jesus, t his night You gathered with Your Apostles to share with them Your last meal. Rachel Marie Stone. One format used by one of our local families is to prepare a Holy Thursday meal, with roast leg of lamb, cooked spinach, celery sticks in salt water to represent the bitter herbs, applesauce with cinnamon and raisins for the haroset, matzohs and wine (or grape juice for the younger children). This prayer may be used in place of the prayers “We give thanks, almighty God,…” “O God the Father, source of all goodness…” in the Common Service or “Hear the prayers of your people…” in the Service of Word and Sacrament in Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal.

Rachel Marie Stone.