Like families, the Church has it’s memories… its stories that as so important to being people of God we are asked to REMEMBER, not to forget….
What are your family memories? What are the family stories, memories that you tell again and again?
In our First Reading we hear about the “Memorial Feast” called the Passover. Remembering that it was GOD who delivered the Israelite people from slavery in Egypt. And this was something to remember and to pass on to be passed on from generation to generation…
And then in the Gospel today, Jesus and his Disciples (being good Jews) are preparing for Passover and all the tradition associate with it. But then Jesus throws the curve ball no one saw coming: He washes the feet of his Disciples… Unheard of… “As I have done, so you must do…”
Tonight, this ONE event of salvation over three days, the Triduum of: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, are certainly meant to be remembered and celebrated…
I would suggest that the Triduum is more than knowing what happened some 2000 years ago. It must be remembered, it was to be shared with our children and their children, from generation to generation…but maybe most importantly is must be LIVED…
Lived not just by going to service, to church or knowing the stories. Rather lived by doing as Jesus asked, to do all this in memory of me… To be of service to others… To love deeply, even to the point of death (literally and figuratively).
So as we participate in this Triduum of 2019, what will we remember, what will we share, what will we live each day…
Will it be recognizing the every day moments of caring and sharing and service that are right before us?
Will it be challenging ourselves a bit more to love God and others in word and action more today than yesterday?
Will it be passing on the faith with others who have yet to appreciate all that God, especially in Jesus Christ has done for US, for each person.
May these three day, the Triduum, be for us a reminder of all that God had done for us – without counting the cost… and all that God calls us to do for one another – without counting the cost; yesterday, today and tomorrow!