Thursday, March 20
Read Luke 22:47-52
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Traditionally both foot washing and communion are celebrated today. This night we will receive Communion in worship. Aelred of Rievaulx [A Rule of Life for a Recluse ] describes Jesus’ washing of the disciple’s feet. “But when he rises from the table, girds himself with the towel and pours water into a basin, consider what majesty it is that is washing and drying the feet of mere mortals, what graciousness it is that touches with his scared hands the feet of the traitor. Look and wait and, last of all, give him your own feet to wash, because those whom he does not wash will have no part of him.” Are you able to receive the foot-washing of Christ?
March 20, 2008
Wednesday, March 19
Luke 22:47-52
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Read Luke 22:47-48. Jesus is betrayed with a common form of greeting, a kiss. The gesture is hollow. How does Jesus handle His betrayal? Where have you felt betrayed? How do we handle our own betrayals from others?
March 20, 2008
Tuesday, March 18
Luke 22:47-52
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How might you have betrayed Christ? In Search of the Beyond Carlo Carretto writes: “….when, through my tears, I began to tell him [Christ] something of the years during which I betrayed him, he lovingly placed his hand over my mouth in order to silence me. His one concern was that I should muster courage enough to pick myself up again, to try and carry on walking in spite of my weakness, and to believe in his love in spite of my fears.” Where has Christ offered forgiveness and love?
March 20, 2008
Monday, March 17
Luke 22:47-52
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Imagine the thoughts and feelings of Judas during Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem. What made him betray his Lord? Is there something of Judas in all of us? Where might you have pushed your ideas and desires ahead of God’s plan?
March 20, 2008
