Thursday, March 28, 2013 - Maundy Thursday

Thursday, March 28, 2013 - Maundy Thursday (from “Mandare” – to command) First Day of Triduum (Three Days)

Worship: 7 pm

Ex. 12:1-14; Ps. 116:1-2, 12-19; 1 Cor. 11:23-26; John 13:1-17, 31b-35

From a 1923 sermon by Bishop Frank Weston:

You cannot claim to worship Jesus in the Tabernacle, if you do not

pity Jesus in the slum.

...I am talking the Gospel, and I say to you this: If you are

Christians then your Jesus is one and the same: Jesus on the Throne

of his glory, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, Jesus received into

your hearts in Communion, Jesus with you mystically as you pray, and

Jesus enthroned in the hearts and bodies of his brothers and sisters

up and down this country.  

...Go out and look for Jesus in the ragged, in the naked, in the

oppressed and sweated, in those who have lost hope, in those who are

struggling to make good. Look for Jesus. And when you see him, gird

yourselves with his towel and try to wash their feet.

• Clean out a closet. Give away what you don’t need.