Maundy Thursday

On this fine dampish spring blessed day our Lord gave us the Eucharist. He washed our feet and we didn't understand what he was doing to us.He gave the New Commandment: Love One Another, as he himself loved us to the end.

I can close my eyes and feel myself gathered to him while he prays over us. The chronic and acute sins are subsumed in the Great Prayer, that we all may be one.

We can only faintly sense the glory of this day; the giftedness of the Sacrament; the majesty of this divine human who sanctifies our humanity, and the absolute personal intention of Jesus' prayer. He did all this for us. That means me. That means you.

How can one love enough to break through this prison of sin?