04142022 – John 13. 1-17, 31b-35 Maundy Thursday One by one, Jesus kneels on the floor in front of each disciple. You can picture it. You can see it in your mind’s eye. It is more than just a parable acted out in real time. It is a teaching. A teaching meant to hit home. […]
03312021 – Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday offers to us a gospel that purposefully turns everything on its ear. And intentionally so. The mandate, “the mandatory thing” Jesus tells us to do in this passage is this: “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you […]
04092020 – Maundy Thursday Again, John’s gospel is so very different when compared to that of the SYNOPTICS. In John, and its account, of the events at the LAST SUPPER, there is no mention of the PASSOVER MEAL, and no EUCHARISTIC verbiage whatsoever. Instead, WHAT we have IS the story of THE FOOT WASHING. It’s […]