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Explore Jesus's profound message of love on Maundy Thursday! Discover how to 'Love One Another' and show compassion to the world. Learn from our struggles and embrace a relationship with Jesus to spread love. Witness the power of divine love in action! #LoveOneAnother #MaundyThursday #Jesus #DivineLove #Christianity #Faith #Compassion #Inspiration #ReligiousTeachings #SpreadLove

Explore the profound journey from 'Sin to Savior' through an insightful analysis of three key figures and words from today's gospel reading. Join us as we delve into John chapter 13, uncovering the context of Maundy Thursday and Jesus's true identity. Discover the transformative power of faith! #SinToSavior #GospelReading #MaundyThursday #JohnChapter13 #JesusChrist #FaithJourney #BiblicalAnalysis #SpiritualGrowth #ChristianLiving #ReligiousStudies

Explore the profound meaning of Maundy Thursday. We remember Jesus's call to love one another and his humble act of washing the disciples' feet, even Judas's. Discover how our are called to embody this divine love in our lives. #MaundyThursday #HolyWeek #JesusLove #LoveOneAnother #Humility #Disciples #Faith #Christianity #SpiritualJourney #DivineLove

Explore the profound link between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday as we delve into scripture. Discover Jesus's commandment of love and his act of service by washing the feet of his disciples. Reflect with us on the significance of these pivotal events. #MaundyThursday #GoodFriday #HolyWeek #JesusLove #ScriptureStudy #FaithJourney #ChristianReflection #SpiritualGrowth #WashingOfFeet #ReligiousTeachings

Reflect on Maundy Thursday's lessons of love and humility. Discover how Jesus' act of washing feet teaches us to serve each other with compassion. Embrace humility, love, and endurance in our daily lives. Let's help and uplift one another! #MaundyThursday #HolyWeek #ChristianLiving #LoveOneAnother #Humility #ServantHeart #FaithJourney #SpiritualGrowth #JesusExample #InspirationalMessage

Explore the profound aspects of Maundy Thursday! We delve into Jesus's new command to love one another, as shown through the mandate, the Lord's Supper, and a message from Jeremiah. Discover how to embrace God's word in our hearts and overcome the challenge of truly listening. #MaundyThursday #LoveOneAnother #NewCommandment #JesusTeachings #HolyWeek #ChristianFaith #SpiritualGrowth #BiblicalStudy #FaithJourney #GodsWord

Explore the profound meaning of Maundy Thursday and Jesus's powerful command to love one another. Join us as we delve into the New Testament, God's new covenant, and the struggle to listen to God's message. Discover the innate sense of right and wrong within us. #MaundyThursday #LoveOneAnother #MaundyThursday #HolyWeek #JesusChrist #NewTestament #GodsLove #Faith #Christianity #BibleStudy #SpiritualJourney #LoveOneAnother

Embark on a profound journey through Holy Week, reflecting on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Join us in understanding the passionate love of Jesus. Let us continue to reflect on Jesus' love for us. Amen. #HolyWeek #MaundyThursday #GoodFriday #JesusLove #LentJourney #PrayerReflection #FaithJourney #SpiritualAwakening #ReligiousVideo #Christianity

Explore the profound meaning of Maundy and Jesus' commandment to love! We delve into God's New Covenant, the struggle to listen, and the innate sense of right and wrong. Discover how Jesus' love, seen in his sacrifice, calls us to love one another. #MaundyThursday #JesusLove #NewCovenant #LoveOneAnother #FaithJourney #VirtualMeeting #GodsMessage #ChristianLiving #BibleStudy #SpiritualGrowth

Explore the profound meaning of Maundy Thursday and the new commandment of love! We discuss how divine guidance is often suppressed, and the universal understanding of right and wrong. Discover how to align with God's truth. #MaundyThursday #NewCommandment #MaundyThursday #HolyWeek #Christianity #Faith #LoveOneAnother #DivineGuidance #SpiritualJourney #ReligiousTeachings #GodsLove #BiblicalInsights

Have a Blessed Holy Week! #easter #eastersunday #holysaturday #goodfriday #maundythursday #spywednesday #figtuesday #greatmonday #palmsunday #paschal #lent #holyweek

Big Bike ⚪🚲 was out with the Big Bros on #MaundyThursday. 😄

We met up outside our church around 6AM. I got home past 1PM.😵‍💫 'Twas a good time. 😎

The idea was to do a #Christian version of the #Filipino #Catholic #BisitaIglesia. Not sure if it's just a Filipino thing or if it even counts as tradition 🤔 but people do it here. It's basically #church-hopping. Instead of Catholic churches, we visited contemporary Christian churches. The goal was 7. We did 16. 😂!
#bikes #cycling #food #coffee

Photo of a bicycle parked in front of the blue Public Book Box outside Union Church of Manila which isn't exactly in Manila, it's in Makati City -- i.e. within Metro Manila but not in the City of Manila

Photo of a bicycle parked next to the wall of a contemporary Christian church building. The photo shows part of the name of the church in English and Chinese, "Christian Gospel"

Photo of six bicycles parked at the al fresco area of a cafe bakeshop. The bike-friendly cafe has individual bike stands for its patrons as some bike owners don't have kickstands installed on their bikes.

Photo of a cup of coffee and an almond croissant

On Maundy Thursday, we remember the Last Supper, a moment of love, humility, and service. Jesus washed his disciples' feet, teaching us to serve others selflessly. Let’s carry forward this message of compassion and unity. #MaundyThursday #LoveAndServe

🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Wikipedia anglophone ?
1. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre #1989TiananmenSquareProtestsAndMassacre
2. Maundy Thursday #MaundyThursday
3. Michelle Trachtenberg #MichelleTrachtenberg

A little music for #MaundyThursday

https://on.soundcloud.com/VZGHQJT7EdaXbJMN7

(By Haus of Decline on Bluesky—afaik she isn’t on Mastodon. https://bsky.app/profile/hausofdecline.bsky.social)

First service of the #Triduum is in the books. In some respects, this one went better than last year (Altar Guild was more organized), but in other areas it wasn’t as good as last year (lower attendance). But still, it’s #MaundyThursday and it’s always a moving experience when we strip the altar.
#Episcopal #HolyWeek #SLECBuffalo

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“Prone to Wander”: Human Judgment, Judged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EElFHImhcw&authuser=0

Psalm 116: 1,10 I love Abba God, because Abba God has heard the voice of my supplication, because Abba God has inclined Abba God’s ear to me whenever I called upon Abba God. How shall I repay Abba God for all the good things Abba God has done for me?

Introduction

Our journey through Lent to Holy Week has brought us to the reality of our situation. We have seen that we’re prone to forsake and give up following the way of the reign of God; we have seen that we’re prone to tromp and tread on the land, on our neighbor, on God, and on ourselves; we have seen that we’re eager to estrange ourselves and become strangers to God, thus to our neighbor, thus to ourselves. While we would love for the exposure of Lent to be over, our exposure is, only now, getting personal.

Maundy Thursday isn’t really about “foot washing” or about finding ways to make yourselves smaller and more servant-like to your neighbor—even though such acts are exposing and can bring a certain (healthy) amount of humility. Rather, Maundy Thursday is about Peter being exposed for what he doesn’t understand about who Jesus is and what his mission on earth is all about. And, thus—if it’s about Peter being exposed—it’s about us being exposed for not really getting what Jesus is truly up to. While we claim all year to know what God’s mission is in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit, we don’t really know and we often forget what it is once we’re told, and we conflate it and force it to conform with our own desires, and (then) walk away from it completely. Maundy Thursday is designed to drive some of those final and big nails into our coffin of exposure. As we gaze upon Christ in the gospel story, watch him remove his clothes and don only a wrap around his waist and begin to wash the feet of his disciples, we should feel the urge building up to blurt out, with Peter, “‘You will never wash my feet!’” A simple statement meant for respect yet exposing how much we really don’t understand what is happening or why Christ is here. On Maundy Thursday, our judgment is called to account for itself, and it will be found lacking.

We are prone to bad judgment because we are prone to wander from our God of love.

Exodus 12:1-14

Here in our First Testament passage from the book of Exodus, Moses and Aaron receive the instructions for the Passover event. The Passover marks the beginning of a new era for Israel. While the exodus event through the Sea of Reeds is the tangible component of Israel’s promised liberation, it is the meal that marks the beginning of the new era defined by redemption. [1] It is this Passover event that is, for Israel, the break in time and space between what was and what will be. Their liberation begins in believing God, trusting God’s word—faith manifesting in action; this is why the Passover event of liberation becomes the mark of a new year for Israel and will always be a mark of a new year: each new year will solicit a new faith to enter the dusk setting on yesterday and dawn rising on tomorrow.[2]

The response of Israel built on faith in God’s trustworthiness and truthfulness is to prepare, eat, and perform a meal in a specific way. God informs Moses and Aaron that on the tenth day of the month all of Israel is to take an unblemished, one year-old, male lamb (one per household or one per a couple of small households), and on the fourteenth day they must slaughter their lambs at twilight. The blood from this sacrifice is to be painted onto the doorposts and lintels of the households where the Passover lamb must be eaten. God then gives very specific instructions regarding the eating of the lamb and the Passover meal:

“They shall eat the lamb that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. You shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly.” (Ex. 12:8-11)

This isn’t any other meal; it’s a meal that’s refusing enjoyment, merriment, and lingering. Every part of this meal must take place with intention and presence; it’s to be done in haste as if the threat of death looms on the boundary of the meal—because it does loom.[3] “The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt,” (v.13). They will eat this meal, putting all their faith in God and that God is faithful to God’s promises that those who follow what has been told to Aaron and Moses will be exempted from this final curse of the passing over of God and the execution of divine judgment on all the firstborns of the land.[4]

The Israelites must suspend their own judgment. They must step into the void from where God beckons them and faith lures them. They must not pause and consider what is common sense or what aligns with what they know to be good and right. In this moment, human judgment comes under attack by the unstated, whom do you love? The Israelites, individually and as a community had to give their answer. That night, as the angel of death swept over Egypt striking down all the firstborn of the land, divine judgment was executed; that night as families woke up human judgment received its verdict.

Conclusion

Would you? Put yourselves in Israel’s shoes. Would you kill the lamb, paint its blood on your door frames, and eat that meal in haste? Would you risk the life of your child, the life of your sibling, the your own life to appease what made the most sense to you? While we read this as a myth, it’s still a myth with a purpose to expose us. The question comes to us through these Ancient Israelites stuck in captivity and oppression. Would each of us, would we as a community, be able to see the depth at which God is doing a new thing in our lives to liberate us from captivity? Would we be able to trust that God is doing this thing and that God is truthful and trustworthy and will make good on God’s promises? Would we be able to suspend our judgment long enough to let God be God?

I’m neither advocating for “blind” and “uninformed” faith no affirming that voice in your head you think may God’s Spirit telling you to do something a bit uncharacteristic (always have those ideas checked by scripture and teaching!). What I am advocating for is this: are we able to suspend our human informed judgment long enough to see when God is doing something new in the world even when it contradicts our conception of what should be done in the world? Are we able to suspend what we think is right and good long enough to see when God is working a new thing for the wellbeing of our neighbor, which ends up being (ultimately) for our own wellbeing? Are we able to unplug our eyes and ears from what we have grown accustomed to seeing and hearing long enough to see and hear when God is calling us into liberation, into love, and into life and away from captivity, away from indifference, and away from death? Would we be able to learn something new about God’s divine mission in the world so to echo Peter’s eager and desperate response to Jesus, Wash not only my feet but my whole body, inside and out!? Would you be able to suspend your judgment long enough to let God be God?

The bad news is that we, as fleshy meat creatures prone to wander, will deliver our answer; the good news is that God knows this and comes to do something about it.

[1] Jeffrey H. Tigay, “Exodus,” The Jewish Study Bible Jewish Publication Society Tanakh Translation, eds. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler (Oxford: OUP, 2004), 125. “Preparations for the exodus” “Israel is to prepare for the coming redemption with a sacrificial banquet while the final plague is occurring and is to commemorate the event in the future on its anniversary by eating unleavened bread for a week and reenacting the banquet. This banquet became the prototype of the postbiblical Seder, the festive meal at which the exodus story is retold and expounded each year to this day on the holiday of Pesah (Passover), as explained below.”

[2] Tigay, “Exodus,” 125. “Since the exodus will be commemorated on its anniversary every year…the preparatory instructions begin with the calendar. Henceforth the year will commence with the month of the exodus, and months will be referred to by ordinal numbers rather than names….Since the number will mean essentially ‘in the Xth month since we gained freedom,’ every reference to a month will commemorate the redemption.”

[3] Tigay, “Exodus,” 126. “The Israelites are to eat while prepared to leave on a moment’s notice.”

[4] Tigay, “Exodus,” 126. “In most European languages, it is also the name of Easter (as in French ‘Paques’). The translation ‘passover’ (and hence the English name of the holiday) is probably incorrect. The alternativity translation ‘protective offering’ is more likely…”

#DivineLiberation #DivineLife #DivineLove #Exodus #HolyWeek #JeffreyTigay #JPSStudyBible #Judgment #Liberation #Life #Love #MaundyThursday #Passover #Peter #ThePassover

#MaundyThursday seems like a good day to reflect on the reason #JDVance dug up an abstruse patristic term like #OrdoAmoris to justify the cruelty of #Republican #Deportation of #Immigrants:

When a #FundieNutjob can't find a Scripture to cherrypick, they get desperate 🙄

This #Episcopalian listens to a Teacher Who challenges me to "Love one another AS I HAVE LOVED YOU" ☦😳☦

He calls it a Commandment, y'all

#Solidarity & #Compassion for all
#OccupyEaster