Bread baked?? Check.
"Victims"chosen for foot-washing? Check.
Candles at the ready? Check.
Readers and musicians queued? Yup.
I think we are prepared for this evening's Maundy Thursday service, a commemoration of Jesus' final meal with his followers, as well as his unsettling choice to wash their feet as a sign of humility and service. Historians aren't sure whether this meal happened on Tuesday of Holy Week or Thursday, but the Christian tradition has settled on the night before Good Friday.
Our service is unusual one might say, a rather mysterious worship opportunity unlike anything else we do in the year and we hope you join us.
Friday evening the CBC radio program will look at the most famous depiction of the Last Supper created by Leonardo DaVinci and given a big boost in interest by The DaVinci Code, that truly silly but page-turner novel by Dan Brown. Above you can see DaVinci's work as well as several others by relatively contemporary artists.
Any comments on Maundy Thursday? Any one of these Last Supper paintings that speak to you?
I have attended several Maundy Thursday services and find them thought provoking and somewhat mysterious, a stirring prelude to the emotional Good Friday Service.
ReplyDeleteI wish you had posted the artists! Third picture my favourite.
ReplyDeleteThe third is my favourite as well.
ReplyDeleteWho painted the fourth picture?
ReplyDeleteAlas, I have saved images through the years Laurie, and neglected to include the names of the artists when I did. I am big on attribution for artistic works so I'm annoyed at myself!
ReplyDeleteI am the "artist" who created the last image. I recently began with painting and am glad you felt this was useful in the post regarding the "Last Supper". I located it here with GOOG's image search. See it HERE with Judas having a forked tail and HERE without the tail.
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