{"id":57,"date":"2015-04-02T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2015\/04\/02\/holy-week-thursday\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:26:35","slug":"holy-week-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/holy-week-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week: Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JesusWashesFeet.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/JesusWashesFeet.jpg\" height=\"212\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This evening marks the beginning of the holiest three days of the year:<br \/>\nThe Easter Triduum. Today, Jesus reveals Himself as the Passover Lamb.<br \/>\nOur King of Kings shows us lowliness and humility, not just by His<br \/>\nimpending sacrifice, but by stooping to wash the disciples\u2019 feet. He<br \/>\nbecomes both priest and servant, both King and Sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>While Jesus\u2019<br \/>\nexample here is meant in a special way for His immediate successors\u2014the<br \/>\nApostles and the clergy who follow through the ages to lead His<br \/>\nchurch\u2014His example shows all mankind how we are to be. By His grace and<br \/>\nsacrifice we are grafted as sons and daughters into His kingship. We are<br \/>\n royalty of the highest lineage. But we are not to lord our status, our<br \/>\nstation as Christians over others. We are to become servants; to fulfill<br \/>\n the needs of others, to help bring the lost or floundering to Christ to<br \/>\n be washed clean, to place ourselves at the foot in service rather than<br \/>\nelevating ourselves to the head. It is an awesome responsibility, and<br \/>\none that can be fulfilled only by stepping in the footsteps of Jesus and<br \/>\n following his lead.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s pray: Lord, help me to remain humble in service to You and to<br \/>\nothers. Help me always to remember Your example so that I might also<br \/>\nlead by showing the world a spirit of charity; and even when I am in the<br \/>\n shadow of impending hardship and pain, allow me the grace to put<br \/>\nothers\u2019 needs before my own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening marks the beginning of the holiest three days of the year: The Easter Triduum. Today, Jesus reveals Himself as the Passover Lamb. Our King of Kings shows us lowliness and humility, not just by His impending sacrifice, but by stooping to wash the disciples\u2019 feet. He becomes both priest and servant, both King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[37,38,39,40,41],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration-spirituality","tag-devotional","tag-easter","tag-holy-week","tag-meditation","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}