Rosary Prayer for Maundy Thursday

Today is Maundy Thursday, when Christians remember Jesus' Passover meal with his disciples, and ponder his Servant-hood, when he washed their feet.

An Anglican rosary and its components.
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Here at St. Cyprian's we have a small group that gathers on Monday mornings to pray the Anglican rosary.   In keeping with that practice, below is a set of prayers that can be made with the rosary as a meditation on the events of Maundy Thursday.

Begin with the Cross: The Lord is full of compassion and mercy; come, let us adore Him.

Invitatory Bead: Almighty Father, whose most dear Son, on the night before he died, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood; who suffered pain and death before he entered into glory, grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it the way of life and peace. 

Cruciform Beads: Do you know what I have done to you?...I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. (John 13:12b, 15)

"Weeks" Beads: So mortals ate the bread of angels; he provided for them food enough. (Psalm 78:25)

Invitatory Bead: The Lord's Prayer

The Cross: May God grant us forgiveness of sins as we forgive others. AMEN.

Prayer Source: Praying With Beads; Daily Prayers for the Christian Year - Nan Lewis Doerr and Virginia Stem Owens, Wm. Eerdman Publishing, Michigan/Cambridge, U.K., 2007.