Maundy Thursday is day in Holy
Week that gets no respect.
It’s the day before Good Friday
when the main event takes. It’s the “second
place finisher on American Idol” of the church year.
Yet, this hear especially, it has
its place as a day of great drama when we remember the institution of Holy
Communion, the commandment (Maundy is an Old English word for commandment) to
love one another, and the stripping of the chancel of all decoration as a
visual reminder of the humiliation of Jesus before he was tortured.
This year it comes in the shadow of the 30 dead and 230 injured in Brussels, and the 37 dead and 100+ injured in Ankara and in Istanbul Turkey, and the uncounted victims of terrorism just days before and the at least 4 dead in Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday.
It is a reminder that God didn’t just enter into life in an abstract sense. God entered into our suffering.
And does so to suffer intentionally, and
die, for his enemies as well as his friends.
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