Maundy Thursday

(môn'dē) [Lat. mandatum, word in the ceremony], traditional English name for Thursday of Holy Week, so named because it is considered the anniversary of the institution of the Eucharist by Jesus at the Last Supper (that is, the mandatum novum or “new commandment”). In some churches, Jesus's washing of the disciples' feet is symbolically reenacted. In Great Britain there is a survival in the distribution by the sovereign of special “maundy money” to certain of the poor at Westminster Abbey. In the Roman Catholic Church, Maundy Thursday is a general communion day; a single Mass is sung, in the evening, and a Host, consecrated for the morrow, is placed in a specially adorned chapel of repose. The altars are stripped bare until the Easter vigil mass.

- the word according to Columbia Encyclopedia as seen at Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/topic/maundy-thursday)


There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it. I have no understanding of it and I am not sure that I believe in it.

"Ay," he said...There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands into the wood.

- a coupla lines from Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea


It's all this water making me think of sharks and Jesus Christ. And Transformers. Off to the cinema then come hell or high water. Or this:



Wasakman.