A BLESSED HOLY THURSDAY
Something to think and pray about: WHY DO WE DO THIS EACH YEAR?
Pray about the significance of these three days leading up to Easter. Can we know that we need to do this; we need to hear these stories, these scriptures of Holy Week. Today, on Holy Thursday, we do this because:
1) the Exodus story we hear tonight is such an important event in our Judeo-Christian heritage; it's the story of how God freed our ancestors in the faith from the slavery they knew in Egypt. We need to hear the story again because it tells us, or reminds us, of how God today comes to free us from all that enslaves us. Where are we unfree needing God to repeat the exodus event in our lives?
2) the Corinthian account of how Jesus, on the night that he died, took bread and wine, and gave us Eucharist; a food that has now fed believers for 2000 years. Today we celebrate in gratitude how Jesus continues to come in so many moments of our lives to feed us with his very life.
3) and in the Gospel of John's retelling of the washing of the feet, we must understand that God now calls us to servant leadership: "What I have done ('washed your feet'), you must do ('wash their feet') for one another." We see tonight that we are charged, as followers of Christ, with the responsibility to be foot washers wherever we go, beginning right at home, in community, in family, with those closest to us, and then to the wider 'people of God'.
A BLESSED HOLY THURSDAY to you and your loved ones!
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