{"id":7506,"date":"2012-04-06T03:58:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T03:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2012-04-06T04:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T04:09:18","slug":"on-maundy-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=7506","title":{"rendered":"On Maundy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; humility, transformation ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It is the evening of another <strong>Maundy Thursday<\/strong> &#8212; in the western Christian tradition, the day on which <strong>Christ<\/strong> washed the feet of his disciples:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SPEC-Maundy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SPEC-Maundy.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Maundy\" width=\"594\" height=\"624\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SPEC-Maundy.png 594w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SPEC-Maundy-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inherent poetry of the gesture &#8212; and no matter your opinion of the edifice that Christianity has become, it is a gesture of simple humility, possessing and transmitting the poetic power that humility alone affords us &#8212; that poetry, for me, will always be associated particularly with the paragraph I have dropped into the image above.<\/p>\n<p>It is a paragraph from my mentor Fr. <strong>Trevor Huddleston<\/strong>&#8216;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/naughtforyourcom001856mbp\"><em>Naught for Your Comfort<\/em><\/a>, and I believe it sums up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.info.gov.za\/speeches\/1998\/98424_0x9469810700.htm\">his life&#8217;s work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I remember him: monk and teacher.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/huddleston.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/huddleston.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"huddleston\" width=\"349\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/huddleston.png 349w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/huddleston-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Pesach &#8212; in the Christian west, Good Friday and the Crucifixion: I shall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vmx9TM9jSlc\">listen to Bach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Inset image of the eyes of Christ from <a href=\"http:\/\/cruciality.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/20\/on-the-cost-and-grace-of-parish-ministry-%E2%80%93-part-viii\/\">an icon by <strong>Andrei Rublyev<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; humility, transformation ] . 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