Easter Triduum Part 1: Maundy Thursday

Today is Maundy Thursday. Holy Week is here, friends.

Lent has brought us from a Tolkienian Ash Wednesday meditation through the trickiness of fasting and the importance of being present to praying through a heavy heart, and on to the complicated nature of time and the paradox of giving and receiving found in Palm Sunday.

In the post on time, I mentioned that the conclusion of Lent can produce a sort of panic: have I listened? Have I changed? Am I ready? As I said then, the answer t...