On Maundy Thursday, March 28, the “sacrificial soup” meal begins at 6:30 p.m.  This meal follows the pattern of the early church’s evening fellowship meals or love feasts, held prior to their formal sharing of Communion.  Worship begins at 7:30 p.m.  This service celebrates the institution of the Lord’s Supper, and so we celebrate this sacrament.  This service also incorporates some of the church’s ancient liturgy associated with Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and concludes with the “stripping of the church,” in which worshipers remove items used in the sanctuary so that the church is bare and without decoration or adornment on Good Friday.