Category Archives: Maundy Thursday
Homily for Maundy Thursday April 6 2023
Jesus and his disciples were Jews, and so they gathered on this night as they did every year, as they had done since they were little children, to eat the Passover Seder. With all Jews everywhere, they gathered to remember their long years of oppression and slavery in Egypt. They told the story of how …
Homily for Maundy Thursday
I love the way this chapter of John’s gospel begins: “Before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” Everything Jesus said and did at this …
April 18, 2019, Blood on the Doorpost – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is no recording for this sermon. Sorry. Every year on Maundy Thursday, we read the story of the first Passover, the single most important story in the Jewish faith. It is the central and defining event of God’s love and faithfulness to his chosen people, after they had been held captive as slaves in …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 