April 17, 2025 - Maundy Thursday - Do We Understand?
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April 17, 2025 - Maundy Thursday - Do We Understand?
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Rev. Dr. Cynthia Park
So much around Holy Week involves symbols, metaphors, and very specific "labor". All that silver doesn't polish itself, and flowers don't just jump into pots! Eight hundred service leaflets have to be composed, edited, printed. Choral music work for Easter begins shortly after the final verse of Silent Night on Christmas Eve. It can be easy to go through the Triduum with a checklist, marking off "things done" and still "left undone" as the days go on. Which is why it is so important to take the time to sit with the questions. Pilate's questions to Jesus "What is 'truth'?" and "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus' question to Simon in the Garden "Could you not stay awake and pray with me for even an hour?" And Jesus' question to God "Why?!? Why have you forsaken me?!?" Some believers emphasize the importance of knowing the "right answers." We tend to emphasize the importance of sitting with "the hard questions." Tonight, we sit with Jesus' question to his disciples in the upper room "Do you understand what I have done for you?"
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