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The humble intimacy of Maundy Thursday

April 6, 2023 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

Looking back at the Grow Christians pandemic posts for Maundy Thursday about the creative ways families shared this night’s ritual, part of me wonders if our church services can ever approach the intimacy of the footwashing done by family members for one another.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: deacon, foot washing, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday’s Pairing of Service and Celebration

April 14, 2022 By Ann Benton Fraser 1 Comment

The world is heavy with sorrow right now.This is not a season that requires take much imagination to ponder Jesus’s suffering on the cross.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Lent Tagged With: Jesus Christ, Maundy Thursday, service

Maundy Thursday’s Call to Love

April 1, 2021 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

Do you remember observing Maundy Thursday at home last year? It felt like a quaint, one-time experience to share with our households, then years later share as a story with future generations of the family. Except of course, it wasn’t a one-time experience. We’re here again a year later with another Maundy Thursday at home.  

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Filed Under: Lent, Parenting Tagged With: foot washing, Jesus Christ, love, Maundy Thursday, The Gospel of John

Slightly Frantic Liturgy 

May 14, 2020 By Samantha Vincent-Alexander 12 Comments

When I worked with youth, one of my favorite events was an agape meal. It started as a Seder and I eventually started calling it “What Would Jesus Eat” which I found hilarious.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, psalm, young children

Maundy Thursday: The At Home Edition

April 9, 2020 By Meaghan Brower 4 Comments

As this article is being written, I am on the 20th day being home with my husband, two small children, and my mother.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: coronavirus, faith at home, foot washing, Maundy Thursday, young children

Preparing for Holy Week at Home

April 2, 2020 By Allison Sandlin Liles 6 Comments

Palm Sunday will be here in just a few short days and I am not ready for it. I’m not ready for Holy Week as a priest, as a parent, or as an individual person trying to follow Christ. And yet, it’s coming.

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Filed Under: Easter, Liturgical Year, Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Easter Vigil, Good Friday, Holy Week, Illustrated Children's Ministry, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday, palms, young children

Maundy Thursday: Vulnerability

April 18, 2019 By Dorian Del Priore Leave a Comment

Maundy Thursday offers a bookend of touch to Ash Wednesday: a touch on the forehead with ashes juxtaposed with the touch of hands, soap, and water on feet. These are fleeting moments of tenderness, thin spaces of vulnerability, connection.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: foot washing, Maundy Thursday, vulnerability

Preparing Children for the Passion

April 11, 2019 By Melody Wilson Shobe Leave a Comment

It can be difficult for our children to the stories of Holy Week. Here are some tips for preparing children for the Passion.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Children in church, death, Easter, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday, Passion, resurrection

As a recovering perfectionist, I know: there’s no perfect way to “do” Holy Week.

March 21, 2018 By Ann Benton Fraser 4 Comments

This Holy Week, God will be at work in us in ways we cannot yet ask or imagine.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: children, Children in church, Easter, Faith, Family, Good Friday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday

Our Holy Week family traditions vary from year to year.

March 17, 2018 By Emily Watkins Leave a Comment

Hope is the word I’m clinging to during this Lent.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Children in church, Easter, Family, Good Friday, Holy Week, Jesus, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday

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