Maundy Thursday 2017

MAUNDY THRUSDAY    April 13, 2017

Beginning at our first wedding anniversary, my wife and I celebrated. Of course, this involved a special meal—either out, or at home.  For the first ten years of our marriage, we listened to the cassette tape of the sound track of our wedding. We look at all the photos.  And we gave thanks for the covenant of marriage.  Usually one of us asks, “Honey , if you know what you know now, would you still have married me.”  And, of course, we both respond with an enthusiastic ,”YES.”our wedding anniversary celebrates the vows we made in the past, and the vows we live by day after day.

 

Tonight is another love anniversary—the anniversary of the established of the Jesus’ New Covenant of Love with us all.

·       Like many wedding banquet, Jesus lovingly planned this Passover dinner with meticulous detail.  Likewise, tonight, our Seder dinner was  lovingly planned  and prepared with meticulous detail, as well.

·       And soon, we will partake of the 2^nd meal, the sacrament of the New Covenant of love between Jesus and us.

 

We remember the events of that night, not by looking at wedding albums, but listening to the word pictures described in the Bible.

·       We see Jesus washing the feet of His disciples.

·       We hear Him command them, and us, to Love one another as he has loved us.

·       We hear his words of commitment and promise, “This is my body…this is my blood, given for you.”

 

Jesus is with us tonight as we celebrate his incredible gift of love. Some of us can feel His presence and His love—right now.  Others of us may not feel it , but we know it to be true.

 

So now, throughout the rest of gathering with Jesus—Savor His love; love given at a price; for You.