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It is, appropriate that this should be written some weeks before the time it commemorates. Those concerned with events were, of course unaware that they were approaching those events. Even when they too their places in the upper room, to them it was simply a group gathered together to enjoy eating with their friends. The fact that we call it Maundy Thursday, which happens to have a particular way in which it is commemorated in this country, perhaps obscures the ordinary , the routine journeying on foot along roads of indifferent quality among people not necessarily helpful, who might or might not donate a bite to eat and water to drink. Their lives at that time must have been a mixture of uncertainty and, probably, of apprehension.
This, for us, is a part of Lent. What ever our attitude to that way of approaching Good Friday and Easter, unlike the disciples we are aware of what happened after that Last Supper. We know that death was followed by new life – a momentous resurrection, new life and transformation. We know that no one is likely to arrest us and put us on trial charged with propagating a treasonable theology. How very comforting for us- isn't it?
Take a good look. If you imagine that the world is very different that are enough (far too many) injustices, repressive laws, organisations of ill will, terrorists who believe that we are injuring them or their nations or creeds, to shake any kind of complacency. Maundy Thursday is today and every day for some, where the next meal maybe the last, before the armed guards arrive.
Our privilege is that we have been given the bread broken for us and the wine of the new covenant.
Bob Mclean
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