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  1. Maundy Thursday Shadow Sketches

    As part of a Service of Shadows for Maundy Thursday April 2, 2026, these sketches were drawn as each “shadow” of Christ’s final hours were read. I had a general idea before hand but for the most part each came together more or less spontaneously during the reading. I used a large flip chart in front of the congregation. As each candle was blown out, I flipped to a new page and once the reading began, started a new sketch. We then created a kind of gallery of the finished shadow sketches in the church.

    View all of the “shadow sketches” at https://www.deviantart.com/peacegroover/gallery/100765113/service-of-shadows-maundy-thursday-2026

    #churchArt #EasterSeason #FaithAndArt #GoodFriday #holyWeek #Lent #LiturgicalArt #maundyThursday #reflectiveArt #sacredArt #ServiceOfShadows #spiritualSketches #Tenebrae #worshipArt
  2. While there’s still some time left in the day, I wanted to wish a happy #MaundyThursday to those celebrating. Even with my extensive Catholic education, I was unfamiliar with Maundy Thursday until well past school years. At the time it was called Holy Thursday.

  3. While there’s still some time left in the day, I wanted to wish a happy #MaundyThursday to those celebrating. Even with my extensive Catholic education, I was unfamiliar with Maundy Thursday until well past school years. At the time it was called Holy Thursday.

  4. Jesus washing the feet of Peter on a late 4th c. sarcophagus from Arles. Peter raises his hands in protest. Beneath him you can see the outline of his empty sandal. 📷🇫🇷 flic.kr/p/rVsmUh #photography #HolyWeek #MaundyThursday #HolyThursday

    Jesus washes Peter's feet (Arl...

  5. Jesus washing the feet of Peter on a late 4th c. sarcophagus from Arles. Peter raises his hands in protest. Beneath him you can see the outline of his empty sandal. 📷🇫🇷 flic.kr/p/rVsmUh #photography #HolyWeek #MaundyThursday #HolyThursday

    Jesus washes Peter's feet (Arl...

  6. Mandé
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    An evening meal with an old friend
    who told us he’d cross a stony bridge,
    its span a trial, then he’d descend
    to wade into black waters’ edge.

    Upon the table stripped and bare,
    a bowl of dried roses, grey as stone.
    The meal that we'd been served was spare:
    a loaf, thinned wine, a candle blown.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #maundythursday #holyweek #easter #catholic #anglican #photography

  7. Mandé
    A #poetry thread

    i.

    An evening meal with an old friend
    who told us he’d cross a stony bridge,
    its span a trial, then he’d descend
    to wade into black waters’ edge.

    Upon the table stripped and bare,
    a bowl of dried roses, grey as stone.
    The meal that we'd been served was spare:
    a loaf, thinned wine, a candle blown.

    🧵👇🏼

    #poem #poemaday #maundythursday #holyweek #easter #catholic #anglican #photography

  8. Initial 'C'(ena) depicting the Last Supper #MaundyThursday Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Ministerialbibliothek, Min. 18; Augustinus, In Johannis evangelium tractatus; 1080-1096; Monastery of Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen; f.168v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

  9. Please join us for #MaundyThursday service tonight as we reflect on the price Jesus paid for all of our sins and the hope we find in Him alone. littlehills.church/holyWeek/

  10. Please join us for #MaundyThursday service tonight as we reflect on the price Jesus paid for all of our sins and the hope we find in Him alone. littlehills.church/holyWeek/

  11. Maundy Night, in Fragments

    It was night already—
    and the room was close,
    low-beamed, breath-warmed,
    troubled by the nearness of departure.
    The lamp did not so much shine
    as shudder.

    There are nights
    that seem to know.

    The basin waited.
    The towel waited.
    The water, in its shallow little vessel,
    held a silence deeper than the sea.

    And He—
    O strange reversal!—
    He whose hands had lifted dust to life,
    whose fingers had written mercy
    upon the infirm flesh of the world,
    stooped.

    Stooped.

    I cannot loose myself
    from that word.

    For there are stoopings more terrible than thunder.
    There are bendings low
    that break the spine of pride
    more surely than the sword breaks bone.

    And one by one—
    sandaled, ashamed, confused—
    they drew near Him.
    The feet of fishermen,
    the feet of zealots,
    the feet that had wandered,
    the feet still crusted with the stale earth
    of empire and fatigue.

    And He washed them.

    Not as a servant washes, perhaps—
    hurriedly, dutifully, with half-averted eye—
    but with that unbearable tenderness
    which makes the beloved wish to flee.

    For who can bear
    to be known at the heel,
    at the dustiest place,
    at the place where the road clings?

    Peter recoiled, of course—
    dear violent Peter—
    as men recoil from love
    when it approaches too nearly
    the wound.

    “No—”

    Ah, but all our souls are fashioned of that syllable.
    No, not there.
    No, not this filth.
    No, not the part of me
    that has walked where I ought not.

    Yet still the water spoke
    in its soft and ruinous language.

    If I wash thee not—

    And then the air itself seemed to splinter,
    for one may resist majesty,
    but to be excluded from such sorrowful intimacy—
    that is a horror no disciple can endure.

    So the feet were given.
    So the heart, for a moment, trembled open.

    And somewhere in the room
    sat the other one.

    He too had feet.
    He too received bread.
    He too was near enough
    to hear the pulse in the Master’s throat,
    to see the shadows gather
    beneath His eyes
    like birds before a storm.

    How dreadful,
    that one may sit so near the Holy
    and yet prefer the kiss of silver.

    Thirty pieces—
    thin moons of metal,
    cold as the underside of a grave-stone,
    small little hosts of another kingdom.

    I think they rang already
    in the secret chambers of his mind.

    The bread was broken.
    No—more than broken.
    Offered.
    Which is the crueler word.

    Take, eat—

    And all the centuries leaned inward.

    The cup passed.
    Darkness trembled in it
    like an omen,
    like a red remembering,
    like the heart’s own interior
    made visible.

    Drink ye all—

    All.

    Even now the word accuses me.

    For the table was long,
    and the shadows longer,
    and love, longest of all,
    stretching even toward betrayal,
    even toward denial,
    even toward scattering.

    Outside, the city breathed
    with the heavy lungs of feast and politics.
    Inside, eternity had knelt upon the floor
    and wrapped itself in linen.

    What church can bear this memory?
    What soul can keep it
    without cracking?

    The clink of cup.
    The rustle of garment.
    A hand withdrawing too quickly.
    A glance no one could quite endure.
    And beneath all things,
    like a distant drumbeat under the earth:

    going,
    going,
    going.

    To the garden.
    To the dark.
    To the lanterns and the cudgels.
    To the mouths of false witnesses.
    To the rooster’s cry.
    To the nails.
    To the forsakenness immense and measureless.

    Yet here—
    here first—
    before the torches,
    before the thorns,
    before the torn veil and the opened side—
    here was the kingdom:

    A basin.
    A towel.
    Bread in broken hands.
    A cup not refused.
    Love stooping lower
    than any disciple could imagine,
    lower perhaps than hell itself,
    that it might fill even the lowest place
    with the rumor of God.

    And I, remembering it,
    can scarcely speak except in shards.

    A splash of water.
    A morsel of bread.
    A traitor’s mouth.
    A beloved breast leaning near.
    The night at the window, listening.
    The floorboards aching under the tread of doom.
    And Christ—
    dear Christ—
    moving among them still
    with the calm of One
    who has already entered death
    and found it, too,
    washable.

    Then out they went.

    Into olives.
    Into moon-pallor.
    Into that hour which still has not ended.

    And the towel lay folded.
    And the basin held
    the last disturbed water.
    And somewhere, perhaps,
    one drop remained upon the floor—
    bright, unnoticed,
    like a tear
    or like the first small glimmer
    of the strange and terrible mercy
    by which the world
    shall yet be undone.

    #basinAndTowel #Betrayal #breadAndCup #candlelight #ChristianSymbolism #churchArt #Communion #contemplativeFaith #FootWashing #Gethsemane #HolyThursday #holyWeek #Judas #lastSupper #LiturgicalArt #maundyThursday #passionOfChrist #sacredStillLife #servantLove #SilverCoins #symbolicPhotography #Tenebrae
  12. The Last Supper and Jesus washing the Disciples' feet #MaundyThursday BL Cotton MS Nero C IV; 'the Winchester Psalter'; 12th century; England (Winchester); f.20r @[email protected]

  13. The Last Supper and Jesus washing the Disciples' feet #MaundyThursday BL Cotton MS Nero C IV; 'the Winchester Psalter'; 12th century; England (Winchester); f.20r @[email protected]

  14. The Last Supper and the Washing of the Disciples Feet #MaundyThursday München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 4452; Evangeliary: Pericopes of Henry II; circa 1007 CE-1012 CE; Reichenau; f.105v

  15. The Last Supper and the Washing of the Disciples Feet #MaundyThursday München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BSB Clm 4452; Evangeliary: Pericopes of Henry II; circa 1007 CE-1012 CE; Reichenau; f.105v

  16. The Washing of Feet and the Last Supper #MaundyThursday BnF MS 1186 Psalterium (Psalter of St Louis & Blanche de Castille); 13th century (c.1230); f.22r @[email protected]

  17. The Washing of Feet and the Last Supper #MaundyThursday BnF MS 1186 Psalterium (Psalter of St Louis & Blanche de Castille); 13th century (c.1230); f.22r @[email protected]

  18. 2026年4月2日、春分の日を過ぎた最初の満月。
    The first full moon after the vernal equinox on April 2, 2026.

    #ピンクムーン #満月 #PinkMoon #FullMoon #AprilFullMoon #PinkFullMoon #MoonSighting #LunaRosa #LunaLlena #LunaLlenaDeAbril #HolyThursday #MaundyThursday #JuevesSanto #FeriaQuinta #CenaDomini

    La primera luna llena después del equinoccio de primavera, el 2 de abril de 2026.

    Prima luna plena post aequinoctium vernum die 2 Aprilis anno 2026.

  19. Today marks Maundy Thursday, a solemn day in Holy Week commemorating the Last Supper and Jesus Christ’s ultimate lesson in humility. From the institution of the Eucharist to the traditional 'Pesaha' meal, churches across the state are gathered in prayer as we approach Easter. english.mathrubhumi.com/news/w #MaundyThursday #HolyWeek #Pesaha #Easter2026 #Faith

  20. People of #fediverse It's #MaundyThursday I pray 4 everyone's safety & well-being🙏

    Sometimes I jokingly think that if rich people w/ many junked items & decides 2 let them go, I'll be waiting nearby to catch them like🤭Jokes aside but right now. Im starting from 0 & need to get basic stuff like blanket/sleeping mat or pillow, I would sincerely appreciate any help. If ur unable to help, Pls kindly boosting my pinned post 📌 helps being seen to other kind people #mastodon

    Grateful to everyone 🙏🤍🫂

  21. People of #fediverse It's #MaundyThursday I pray 4 everyone's safety & well-being🙏

    Sometimes I jokingly think that if rich people w/ many junked items & decides 2 let them go, I'll be waiting nearby to catch them like🤭Jokes aside but right now. Im starting from 0 & need to get basic stuff like blanket/sleeping mat or pillow, I would sincerely appreciate any help. If ur unable to help, Pls kindly boosting my pinned post 📌 helps being seen to other kind people #mastodon

    Grateful to everyone 🙏🤍🫂

  22. There should be nothing below people. In humility, do what God wants. Don't do good just to get something in return. Do it because it's what's right. #humility #Jesus #MaundyThursday #servant #God

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. “Prone to Wander”: Human Judgment, Judged

    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