[Regenerating this blog by sharing Maundy Thursday reflection of 2015]
Threads
for a New Commandment
The marketing slogan for the cotton
industry is “the fabric of our lives.” It’s an image of threads intertwined to
create softness, comfort and security. This is an image that is often
overlooked in the Triduum of Holy Week. Over these next few days our senses
will be inundated with the harshness of a crown of thorns, the hardness of
the wood of the Cross, and the roughness of a large stone covering the tomb;
all full of sorrow and pain. But yet, there is comfort and security on this
Holy Week journey. Through the threads of fabric found in an outer robe and a
towel in today’s Gospel, to the linen wrappings within the empty tomb on Easter
Day.
The
questions for us today, are: How do we carry comfort and security in
these harsh global times? How do we be bearers of thread(s) for “the fabric of our
[other] lives”, and live the “new commandment?”
I am reminded of the spiritual
impact of threads and fabric from last December’s display of quilts within the
Trinity Cathedral complex. There were panels of the “Names Project - AIDS
Memorial” quilts, and prayer quilts done by the Cathedral’s Quilter’s guild.
These quilts had common threads that represented the act of comfort, security
and healing in remembrance of the human needs and longings for God’s love.
Our “Teacher and Lord” teaches us to
love one another as He has loved us. And, that we should embody the love that
is about justice, peace, and the dignity of every human beings (BCP 305). The
journey to the tomb does not start today with the Triduum because it’s been in
action for centuries. And, it does not end on Easter Day because it continues
at every twist and turn of the journey’s road. We are the carriers of threads
for life and love!
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