Prayers For Lord Jesus:
May I console Your Sacred Heart and know the love and Mercy that flowed forth. Lord, when I face the crosses of my own life, give me Your divine courage and strength to say “Yes” to the Will of the Father. Your love for me is abundant and is perfect in every way.
Maundy Thursday is the fifth day of Holy Week leading up to Easter, which remembers the Last Supper with Jesus and His disciples. We call this event the “Last Supper” because it is one of Jesus’ final meals with His disciples before He is crucified. They had gathered for Passover Supper, which set an important context for what Jesus did at the Last Supper.
The Passover meal remembers when God liberated His people from captivity after striking Egypt with the tenth and final plague. For the tenth plague, God told Moses that every firstborn son would die unless their families had marked their door frames with the blood of a “lamb without blemish” (Exodus 12:5). Moses directs the Jews to kill a lamb and mark their doors with blood. As promised, God “passes over” the homes marked with blood and spares the firstborn sons of His people. After suffering this final plague, Pharaoh releases the Israelites from their captivity as slaves.
March 28, 2024
by Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP
Peter once again shows us just how stubborn a disciple of the Lord can be. Jesus moves to wash his disciples’ feet. Peter blurts out, “You will never wash my feet.” He’s already forgotten the whole Get Behind Me Satan episode. And a couple of others where he’s fundamentally failed to grasp the Lord’s lesson. Peter’s fervor for protecting Jesus’ status once again threatens to derail or delay the Lord’s act of sacrificial love on the Cross. We can ask: is Peter worried about the Lord’s status or his own?
Reflection from the Dominican Media Mission, India
