Meditation
Maundy Thursday of Passion Week celebrates being in the Family of God. The night before Christ was betrayed, he gathered with his disciples for the Passover meal. The Old Testament lesson in Exodus teaches us the significance of the Passover celebration—the rejoicing of the passing over of the angel of death, which took the first born of those who didn’t have the sign of blood on the door posts—the final of the plagues which Pharaoh needed before accepting the liberation of the Israelites.
So Jesus, like all good Jews, was sitting down with his ‘family’ to share a Passover meal. Jesus knew—had been talking all week—about his upcoming death. The disciples remained clueless.
I posted both the New Testament Gospel Lesson of John, which related Jesus’ washing the feet of his disciples and the Epistle lesson of Corinthians, which established the new tradition of the Eucharist—the Lord’s Supper.
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