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Illustrative: A large congregation attend a service at Westminster Abbey in London, Wednesday July 18, 2018. (Jack Taylor/PA via AP)
JTA The Church of England apologized for a booklet that it published featuring prayers for the Thursday before Easter and recommendations to perform customs observed by Jews on Passover.
The booklet of prayers ahead of Maundy Thursday is “not intended to be a Christianized seder,” Richard Sudworth, the Church’s national interreligious affairs adviser, said in a statement, according to a report Thursday by the Jewish Chronicle of London. “We do not wish to encourage an impression that was not intended by the resource and apologize for any offense caused.”
Church of England withdraws advice for hosting Maundy Thursday meal
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Church of England Easter meal advice leaves bad taste after claims it appropriated Jewish Seder
Guidance on how to celebrate Maundy Thursday withdrawn with apology for any offence caused
1 April 2021 • 8:00pm
The Church of England has withdrawn guidance for hosting an Easter meal at home after being accused of appropriating Jewish tradition.
Due to the Covid pandemic, the Church issued guidance on how to celebrate Maundy Thursday – which marks the beginning of the three-day celebration of Easter – at home.
In a document entitled Prayer at Home , it said: This short form of prayer is intended to be used at home by those who at this time of the pandemic are unable to gather with others to celebrate the Holy Communion on the evening of Maundy Thursday.
13 February 2021 • 12:02am
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SIR – I admire the attempts by Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, to reform the NHS to make it more responsive to the risk of future pandemics. He seems, however, to have rejected the Tories’ 1944 mixed private-state plan, flagged up by Allister Heath (Comment, February 11).
This may be because we already have such an organisation. Local private hospitals have, for the second time in under a year, been taken over by the NHS, meaning that patients who have paid large premiums for private health cover cannot access what they have paid for.