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“In that upper room, he gets down, presumably on his knees, calls for water and washes the feet of those who’ve travelled with him. It’s a real embodiment, a practical example, of the life of service that he is committed to and that he invites us to join,” says The Rev’d Dr Ruth Mathieson
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“The Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services are not separate events, but are one liturgy, broken in the middle by a long night where solitary contemplation and prayer are the vehicles for each of us to wrestle with the violence and injustice of Jesus’ trial and punishment. There are some things that are only understood from within our own skin, knowing our own injustices and our own response to the violence we see in the world,” says The Rev’d Canon Sarah Plowman
“He took a bowl and a towel and he washed the feet of his disciples…Sometimes I think we may have missed the point when Jesus said, ‘Serve each other in the same way that I am serving you now.’ Sometimes I think in today’s world we’d say, ‘Don’t think that you’re too important not to do the things that everyone else takes for granted. So take your turn cleaning the toilet, doing the ironing, doing the washing, cutting the grass, doing those nitty gritty things that in lots of ways we take for granted in family life and in community life,” says Bishop Cam Venables
“Welcome to a most unusual Maundy Thursday…somehow the bread and the wine will remain unconsecrated until we are able to meet again in church…perhaps we will recognise again the latent potential for holiness in everyday things,” says Bishop Cam Venables.
Bishop John Roundhill shares the joys and benefits of his Holy Week Walk ‘n’ Talk pilgrimage from Brisbane to Burleigh: “The stripping away of other things can leave you time with God. It is a fitting way to spend Holy Week.”
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