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Catholic Charities USA
Holy Thurdsay
Readings of the Day
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Of all of this week's liturgies, it always seemed to me that
today's - The Mass of the Lord's Supper - was for
those with Jesus the "calm before the storm" before the
seeming catastrophe of the following day.
Presumptions can be deceiving, however. Far more than just a prelude,
that very first Holy Thursday was a critical day in salvation history.
It was then that Jesus passed on his most important lessons -
from modeling servant leadership by washing his disciples' feet
to instituting the Eucharist - setting the stage for how his disciples
were to live out his mission in the years, decades, and centuries to
come.
Those lessons strengthened the disciples through the dreadful day that
followed, sustained them in the following years, and remain relevant
today.
Much like the disciples during the first Holy Week, for many of us the
past few years- lived in the shadow of a world-wide pandemic, a
struggling economy, in a deeply divided nation, while witnessing a
bloody conflict at the crossroads of Europe and Russia with the
largest refugee crisis since the Second World War - have been
like an ongoing Good Friday where shadows seem to overcome the light.
But also like those first disciples, we too can turn to the lessons
Jesus taught that first Holy Thursday, particularly regarding service
as the work of peace. Through the act of washing the disciples'
feet, Jesus demonstrated the standard for his followers in caring for
one another.
In a world full of conflict and war, we know that Christians are
called to be peacemakers. It was through Jesus's example that
first Holy Thursday that we learned HOW we are called to be
peacemakers: that the path to salvation and peace is through service
to others. It is for this reason that Catholic Charities agencies do
the work that they do - feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring
for the ill and the imprisoned, and welcoming the stranger - in order
to build peace. And while not all of us can go and assist refugees in
Ukraine, we all can support those that do. Even more so, we can
incorporate the powerful lessons of Holy Thursday into our own lives
and work to build a world of peace, dignity and justice for
all.
Tom Dobbins Jr. is the Justice and Peace Coordinator of Catholic
Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, a Producer for the
"JustLove" radio broadcast on Sirius/XM's Catholic
Channel, and Chair Emeritus of the Roundtable Association of Catholic
Diocesan Social Action Directors.
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