Maundy Thursday, April 21, 2011
JOHN 15:12-14
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.
THE PARTAKING
Often we taste the
granular body of wheat
(Think of the Grain that was buried
and died!)
and swallow together
the grape’s warm, burning blood
(remembering First Fruit!)
knowing ourselves a part of you
as you took part of us, flowed
in our kind of veins,
quickened cells like ours
into a human subdividing:
now you are multiplied –
we are your fingers and your feet,
your tender heart – we
and your broken side.
Accompanied by Angeles: Poems of the Incarnation by Luci Shaw.
PRAYER
Somebody, during the tsunami in East Japan quietly set aside their life to save their beloved ones or someone they did not know. Lord, only you know what happened and is still happening. Giving food, giving water in your name is to share the communion with you. Lord, we ask you that you may redeem their acts of kindness to eternal hope for Japan and for the whole world.
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