02/04/2026

Maundy Thursday

The readings that are prepared for this evening's mass draw us into remembrance of the whole history of the salvation of humanity prepared from the very beginning in the eternal omnipotence of our creator IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT whose being is the Love that has created all that can be known which is also the reason that each one of us has an immortal awareness of being, our soul.

In the first reading, we join the children of Abraham as they are saved from their slavery in Egypt. The lamb is slain and its blood used to warn the destroying angel to spare these people who are protected by the Grace, free gift, of God.  Even though we don't understand, we do know that the will of God is always Righteous and as such has to be obeyed.

St Paul, a Pharisee of sincere and strict observance, who has overcome his total distaste, even hatred, for the Gentiles to fulfill the mission to preach to the Gentiles given to him by the Resurrection is thus more than a teacher but in his own being a witness to the finalization of revelation that was completed by the new "Passover" that we begin to celebrate today. In the second reading for tonight he teaches us the basic facts that all our liturgies have been built upon and recalls the creation of the Mystery that is Sacramental Life, the New Reality that is the Body and Blood of Christ.

The wisdom of the Church has chosen to show in tonight's Gospel reading from St John how deep is the intention of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT to totally empty himself of his own all encompassing divinity to experience human life and death. The word "humility" is totally inadequate to express what has happened in the Incarnation. 

In the passage from St John, Jesus tells all of us that we all can be saved into Eternal Life by recognising the immensity, accepting in belief and imitating during our lives what he the Incarnation himself is then in the process of revealing.

You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.

 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet,

you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

 For I have given you an example,

that you also should do just as I have done to you.