Thursday April 13
Maundy Thursday
Bible Reading: Matt. 26: 17 - 29
Topic: This Is My Body
Jesus last meal with His
Disciples occurs in the last week of His life, immediately preceding His arrest
and crucifixion.
The substance of what the
Passover foreshadowed has come.
The Passover was
celebrated in commemoration of their ancestral exodus from Egypt.
In our passage today,
Jesus takes the bread and wine and gave thanks according to Jewish practice and
then He redefined their significance and made the Disciples to partake.
In the setting of the
Church, the re-enactment of this ritual is what we know as the Lord's Supper -
Holy Communion or the Eucharist. The breaking and distributing of the bread act
out what Jesus is doing with His Body for the sake of others.
It is in this sense that
the Eucharist service is regarded as the highest service of the Church.
Henceforth man can be
fully restored to God by this once and for all times sacrifice.
The Holy Communion
replaces the Passover feast as an established and internal bond by the Blood of
Jesus.
As we partake in this
mystery in our individual local Churches, let us be mindful of what this rite
signifies, giving glory to God all the time.
Prayer:
Dear Lord, help me to live
a life of thankfulness all the time, Amen
Memory verse: Matt. 26 : 24
"The Son of Man goeth
as it is written of Him; but woe unto that man by whom the Son of Man is
betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born"
Source:
The Daily Fountain
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)
(The Daily Devotional Guide of the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion)
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