Maundy Thursday

It all started tonight.

Yes, I recognize the incongruency in that statement, the past tense "started" with future reference "tonight." But that's what it means to enter into the story of the Bible. In some sense, as the writers of Battlestar Galactice said, "All this has happened before; all this will happen again."

This is My Body, broken for you.

This is My Blood, spilled for you.

You walk back to your seat and kneel first for a bit. In the loft above, the pianist and organist play. A voice joins in.

Down the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem that day.

The priests, deacons, and chalice-bearers have changed into their black robes. They strip the communion table, the elements, the cross, the candle.

It is finished.