“Passover feast is re-enacted At Trinity Lutheran church” from the April 21, 1966 Door County Advocate
Passover feast is re-enacted At Trinity Lutheran church
Sarah Magnusson, Corres.
WASHINGTON ISLAND — Wednesday evening of Holy Week the members of the Luther League of Trinity Lutheran church on Washington Island went back in time to the days of the children of Israel. They sat down to the Feast of the Passover in all its beauty and history. The supper was eaten by candlelight, the candles being lit by Pauline O’Connell, who took the part of the mother. She read the opening prayer, blessing the lights and the feast to come. Behind the speaker hung a rich tapestry portraying the Last Supper.
Pastor Nerenhausen, the speaker, read the prayers, portions of the Scripture, and blessed the food as it was presented. A commentator, Jean Rutledge, read the symbolic significance of the food and the relationship to the Last Supper.
The elements presented in this solemn Feast were the wine representing the sacrifice of the lamb and of Christ himself the Matzos, or unleaven bread, which the children of Israel made in haste for their flight from Egypt; the bitter herbs which were a reminder of the bitterness of slavery and suffering in Egypt; Haroses, a mixture of chopped apples, nuts, cinnamon, raisins and red wine, recalling the mortar used by the Jews in building palaces and pyramids during their 430 years of Egyptian slavery. The Paschal Lamb was eaten, representing the Lamb of God who would come generations later fulfilling the Jewish prophecies.
Before the meal began a Jewish prayer of Thanksgiving was read by the leader and the group read responsively one of the Hallel psalms, Psalm 113. The Hallel psalms are the Hallelujah psalms, sung or chanted by the children of Israel in their tabernacles throughout their history.
Bread was broken, the wine was shared, the bitter herbs and Haroses were consumed. The group was very quiet. The candles on the table burned steadily as the ancient rite was enacted. The solemn feast ended with the blessing from the Book of Numbers, after which the Doxology was sung and the young people went out into the night.——(Contributed)
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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