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March 28, 2024

Afterward you will understand

by chuckofish

Today is Maundy Thursday–the day during Holy Week which commemorates the washing of the disciples’ feet and the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the disciples.

You might want to take some time out of your busy day and think about that.

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet,[a] but is completely clean. And you[b] are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

–John 13:1-15

Here’s a helpful review of Holy Week in real time.

The painting is by Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893)

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March 29, 2018

A science snippet and a reminder

by chuckofish

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The full Moon that shows up for a second time this month (March 31) is known as a “Blue Moon.” This full Blue Moon is also known as the “Paschal Blue Moon” and it has a special connection to Easter. The first Sunday after the Paschal Moon is usually designated as Easter Sunday, as will indeed be the case this year (April 1).

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The last time we had a Paschal Blue Moon was in 1999.  In that year, that second March full Moon fell on a Wednesday, so Easter Sunday fell on April 4. If you’re wondering when the last time Easter Sunday fell on April 1, that was in 1956!

Here’s another “Blue Moon” for you; watch the whole thing…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hkngjEgHgk

Suddenly I feel like having a

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How about you?

I will have to wait, however. I have a busy day at work and then I am reading at the Maundy Thursday service this evening,

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followed by my one hour waiting “in the garden” with our Lord. I won’t be home ’til late I’m afraid.

Tomorrow is Good Friday. Time to get our act together.

Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his Body and Blood: Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

– Collect for Maundy Thursday, Book of Common Prayer

Blue Moon information from The Farmer’s Almanac 2018; Last Supper painting from the Ottheinrich Folio.

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