Tag Archives: Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday: love

Posted on March 28, 2024 by Rosalind C Hughes

And in the next heartbeat he was on his feet, filling the bowl with water, stripping off his robe and rolling up his sleeves, because he knew that if he was to leave them knowing how to love, he needed to show them the depth, the humility, the profundity of his love for them. Continue reading →

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What we learn from one another

Posted on March 26, 2024 by Rosalind C Hughes

A poem towards Maundy Thursday Some days later, stretching out his hand to pluck an olive to his puckered mouth he remembered her hands and her hair, how the scent of nard filled his mind, overwhelming the taste of the food with the sweet and … Continue reading →

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Maundy Thursday message

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

This, for me, was the tragedy of Judas: that he couldn’t see how much God loved him, even when God was right in front of him, washing his feet. Continue reading →

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Triduum

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

While the dough was doing its thing, I went out to the forge, made one more cross out of gun barrels. Continue reading →

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Thursday

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

We pray in awkward whispers against the reredos of white towels fumbling over nervous feet held in stumbling hands, certain of nothing but betrayal, the cross to come, and sunset’s pale inversion in the water

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Peter said no

Posted on April 14, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

How hard it is to let Jesus serve us, save us, and know that there is no repayment necessary nor sufficient, that Jesus does not need us to defend him or protect him. Continue reading →

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Peter denies the Christ

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

Peter denies the Christ(John 18:1-27) Malchus It was dark. Smokefrom torches refused to rise, hung about the olives and our eyes,flames close to dying as though lightitself were loath to bear witness Servant girl It was cold;the kind of springmorning … Continue reading →

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Maundy Thursday: washing Judas’ feet

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

The devil had already sown the seeds of betrayal in Judas’ heart, and Jesus knew it full well. He let Judas know that he knew it. And he washed Judas’ feet. Continue reading →

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Thursday 2020: Betrayal

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Rosalind C Hughes

“One of you,” he said, “will betray me,” and each of them immediately beset his soul with cross-examination, face afire with a thousand slights, deft denials and sleight of conscience, self-deception well practised since the first temptation in the Garden … Continue reading →

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Maundy Thursday: the end of love

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

Love is a decision. It is our choice to make, and we cannot make the excuse that someone else destroyed it, if Jesus washed Judas’ feet, and healed the ear of the servant sent to arrest him, and restrained the angels from coming down from heaven to frighten the hell out of Herod and that weasel, Pontius Pilate, letting love be his gospel, and his end. Continue reading →

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