Hear the messages that Father Jeremiah delivers each week
to the congregation of Grace Anglican.
On the night that Jesus would be handed over and betrayed, he instituted the Communion meal. He transformed the Passover Supper into something new that would feed us with the gift of his sacrifice and new life. In fact, Jesus deeply desired to share this Passover with his disciples and through that deep desire offered this great gift of communion to them and to us.
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At the Last Supper our Lord, Jesus established the Eucharist and washed his disciples’ feet. In the process of this, we are reminded that Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. How does this connect to the establishing of the Passover so long ago? Father Jeremiah explores this and explains it in his Maundy Thursday sermon.
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Image: The Last Supper of Jesus Christ, by Roman Zacharij, licensed under CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons, no changes made. Image location: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Last_Supper.JPG
On the night that Jesus was betrayed, he took time to wash his disciples’ feet and through that to teach them that they are to love one another. He also later took bread and broke it and a cup of wine and gave it to them. This act is the first Eucharist. On Maundy Thursday we remember these actions by Jesus and what they mean for us today.
Jesus washed his disciples’ feet in order to demonstrate to them their need to serve one another. But it is also a demonstration of the service that he was about to perform. Out his very divine nature, Jesus serves and loves his disciples and calls us to participate in that very same love to draw others into the salvation that he is bringing to us through his sacrifice.
Image: Christ Washes the Disciples Feet, Albrecht Dürer / Public domain. Image location: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Dürer_-_Christ_Washing_the_Feet_of_the_Disciples_(NGA_1943.3.3641).jpg
Image: The Last Supper, Ugolino di Nerio [Public domain]. Location: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1г_Ugolino_di_Nerio._The_Last_Supper_Metropolitan_mus._N-Y.jpg
In John 13, Jesus reveals what the humble servant really looks like and shows us that only he is that true humble servant. Can we embrace the washing that we need to undergo continually through Jesus Christ? Or will we have no part in him? Listen to find out more about John 13.
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