Maundy Thursday Service, April 2 , 2026

ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH – LCMS

700 Main St.  P.O. Box 220   Clyman, WI  53016  

Rev. Daniel L. Bohn & Church 1(920) 341-2025  – shepherdatzion@gmail.com

Worship Times: Sundays – 8:30am & Wednesdays – 7:00pm

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Music – Dee Dee Wille       Elder – Dave Stuebe, Dan Chaveriat, Greg Schwartz

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Congregation Information: Neal Kohlhoff Email: neal.kohlhoff50@gmail.com

Altar Guild for April: Tracey Schwartz & Holley Westenberg                  Thank you.

 Guests.  Welcome to Zion.  We are happy to have you worship with us.  Please sign our guestbook located in the Narthex.  About Holy Communion:  We welcome to the Lord’s Table all who have repented of their sins and seek to amend their sinful life; all who believe that Jesus is truly present in, with, and under the bread and the wine; and all who believe that through the words “given and shed for you” forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation are given.  If this is your confession and you are a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, then come with a thankful heart and join us.   If you are a visitor and would like to commune, please talk with Pastor Dan before the service.  To help in preparing to receive Holy Communion open the front cover of the Burgundy hymnal or turn to pages 329 & 330.  Gluten free wafers are available, please talk with an Elder or Pastor before the service if you would appreciate them.

As We Gather  The forty days of Lent have come to an end!  They began on Ash Wednesday with a service of confession remembering who we are through a cross of ashes placed on our forehead as these words were said: “you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”  The next three days, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, point us to and revolve around the only sacrifice that gives us the forgiveness of sins we need so deeply.  They revolve around, the body and blood of our Lord, given in His supper, His body crucified and His blood shed on His cross in our place, His body which laid lifeless for three days in the tomb.  These three days  help us to believe the Joy of Easter Sunday and the empty tomb which assures us we will live with Him forever in heaven!

Ringing of the Bell and Welcome

Hymn  “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness”               LSB 563

Invocation-In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Amen

Opening Sentences and Call to Worship – I will go to the Altar of the Lord.  To my God and Father, who is my exceedingly great joy.  Our help is in the name of the Lord.  Who made heaven and earth.  Christ entered the most Holy place once for all.  He did it through His own blood and obtained eternal redemption.  Through His blood shed and body broken, He is the mediator of a new covenant.  He provided redemption for His people, and put in place His covenant forever.  Whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim your Lord’s death until He returns in His full power and glory.      He will judge the hearts of all people, but because of the faith He has given to us and sustains in us through the work of the Holy Spirit, we will be judged innocent and welcomed into heaven for all eternity.

Confession and Absolution – Let us now confess our sin and ask God our heavenly Father to grant us forgiveness, for the sake of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.     All: O Almighty God, merciful Father, I, a poor miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins and iniquities with which I have ever offended You, and justly deserved Your temporal and eternal punishment.  But I am heartily sorry for them, and sincerely repent of them, and I pray You of Your boundless mercy, and for the sake of the Holy, innocent, bitter, sufferings and death, of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor sinful being.  Amen     God be merciful to you and strengthen your faith by and through God the Holy Spirit.  Amen   Do you believe that the forgiveness I proclaim to you, is not my forgiveness, but God your heavenly Father’s forgiveness given to you through His Son Jesus Christ?    Yes, I do so believe.   Let it be done for you as you believe.  In the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ, I forgive you all your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the X Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  Amen    Our God has promised.  “I will remember My covenant, which is between you and every living creature.  Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as wool…, thus says the Lord”  “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us…”   Amen!  Praise be to our God and Lord.

Psalm 116:12-19  antiphon vs1-2 – I love the Lord, for He heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy.  Because He turned His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.  How can I repay the Lord for all His goodness to me?  I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord.  I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all His people.  O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have freed me from my chains.  I will sacrifice a thank offering to You and call on the name of the Lord.  I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all His people, in the courts of the house of the LORD in your midst, O Jerusalem.  Praise the LORD.  I love the Lord, for He heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy.  Because He turned his ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live.

Prayer of the Day – O Lord Jesus Christ, since You have left us a memorial of Your passion in Your grace filled sacrament, grant we pray, that we may use Your sacrament of Your body and blood in a way, that the fruits of Your redeeming work may be seen in all that we do and say.  You live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen

Old Testament Lesson   Exodus 24:3-8 –  When Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s words and laws, they responded with one voice, “Everything the Lord has said we will do.”  Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said.  He got up early the next morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up twelve stone pillars representing the twelve tribes of Israel.  Then he sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord.  Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.  Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people. They responded, “We will do everything the Lord has said; we will obey.”  Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Epistle or New Testament Lesson  1 Corinthians 11:23-29 –   For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.”  In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.”  For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.  Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.  A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.  For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord, eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Gradual – Christ entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, and has obtained eternal redemption.  He is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who repent, can receive the forgiveness of their heavenly Father.  He provided redemption for His people.  He has made possible, His covenant of forgiveness and life forever.

Gospel Reading – John 13:1-15, 31b-34 – It was just before the Passover Festival.  Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.  Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.  The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.  Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist.  After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.  He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”  Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”  “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”  Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”  “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”  Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean.  And you are clean, though not every one of you.”  For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not everyone was clean.  When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place.  “Do you understand what I have done for you?”  he asked them.  “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am.  Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.  I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.  vs31-34   When he was gone, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified and God is glorified in him.  If God is glorified in him, God will glorify the Son in himself, and will glorify him at once.  “My children, I will be with you only a little longer.  You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.  “A new command I give you: Love one another.  As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Nicene Creed – I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth and of all things visible and invisible.      And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.   And I believe in the Holy Spirit,   the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic Church, I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life X of the world to come.    Amen.

Hymn “Not All the Blood of Beasts”    LSB 431

Sermon

Prayers of the Church

The Lord’s Prayer – Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever.       Amen.

We Gather our Tithes and Offerings

 Service of the Sacrament 

Preface   2 Timothy 4:22 – The Lord be with you.  And also with you.    Lift up your hearts.  We lift them to the Lord.     Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.  It is right to give Him thanks and praise.

The Words of Our Lord – Consecration of the Elements

Pax Domini – The peace of the Lord be with you always.      And also with you.  Amen

We Celebrate our Lord’s Supper

Distribution Hymns:

“What is This Bread”                                  LSB 629

“Your Table I Approach”                           LSB 628

“My Hope is Built on Nothing Less”          LSB 575

 Post-Communion Thanksgiving –  O God the Father, the fountain and source of all goodness, who in loving kindness sent Your only-begotten Son into the flesh, we thank You that for His sake You have given us pardon and peace in this Sacrament, and we ask You not to forsake Your children but always to rule our hearts and minds by Your Holy Spirit that we may be enabled constantly to serve You; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.  Amen

Benediction

The Stripping of the Altar

The Altar is covered with symbols of our faith.  Each is placed with purpose and care.  They are signs of a faith which is alive.  Tonight, we remember that Christ was betrayed, arrested, falsely accused and sentenced unjustly to death.  Tomorrow we observe Good Friday, the day our Lord died and gave His life for the sins of the world.  Our sins!  It is not right that the altar, our symbol of God’s presence in this house of worship, be unaffected by His death.  We therefore symbolically strip it of its life, as was our Lord.

Choir   “Lamb of God”                    

***Please leave in silence to return at 1pm tomorrow to join your brothers and sisters in Christ, at His Cross***

2026 Holy Week Schedule

                      April 3^rd:     Good Friday 1pm @ Zion

Good Friday 6pm @ Trinity in Reeseville

April 5^th:     Easter Sunrise service @ 6:30am

Breakfast following the sunrise service

Easter Service @ 8:30am

REMINDER: There will not be a Wednesday service on April 8^th.

We are going to prepare the sanctuary for the Easter service and set up for the Easter breakfast starting at 8am on Saturday April 4^th.

Please keep the following in your Special Prayers:

Bob Schultz as he awaits his crown of life. We pray for a quick and peaceful release and strength for Marilyn and his family.

Doyle Rettschlag who is making progress in his recovery from his surgeries and will begin cancer treatments soon.

Stan Buska, Marti Chaveriat’s brother who is dealing with health issues.

Jayne Gierach who is recovering from surgery.

Dennis & Karen Fredrick and family as they mourn the loss of their Grandson.

Karen Fredrick as she recovers from shoulder surgery.

Those in the congregation needing healing & strength: Warren, Randy, Deanne, Dawn and others.

All men and women in the armed forces, especially those who are a part of Epic Fury campaign, Carson Lamp.

The families who lost loved ones who gave the ultimate sacrifice of their lives for our country’s freedom and safety.

We keep in our prayers all in our congregation who recently had surgery, waiting for test results, and are in need of healing and comfort.