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Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper and the events afterwards. Our church usually has a service on Maundy Thursday, but is not having one this year.

Luke Chapter 22:

19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake [it], and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup [is] the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.

“A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness, and respect for every human being.” – Pope Francis

“There were people who went to sleep last night,
poor and rich and white and black,
but they will never wake again.

And those dead folks would give anything at all
for just five minutes of this weather
or ten minutes of plowing.

So you watch yourself about complaining.

What you're supposed to do
when you don't like a thing is change it.
If you can't change it,
change the way you think about it.”
― Maya Angelou

I've made a post over at

b2memsupport for promoting your prompts!

http://b2memsupport.livejournal.com/29623.html?view=227255&style=mine#t227255

You can just comment with your unclaimed or mostly unclaimed prompts or even all your prompts if you want to!

Or you can go there to see if there's a prompt you missed finding; you might see something you want to claim after all!

And if you have not been doing B2MeM, then you might see something that will get you interested.

“One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters.”
(Aragorn in The Two Towers "Flotsam and Jetsam")

This is one of my favorite quotes in the trilogy, but really, it seems to be at the heart of much of the Legendarium. Casting away a treasure, a precious thing, seems to be the theme all the way back to the Silm. To be willing to sacrifice something that others may benefit is found in every tale: Feanor would not sacrifice the Silmarils to renew the light of the trees, and made that dreadful oath to keep anyone else from benefitting from them; Thorin was unwilling to sacrifice the Arkenstone; the One Ring cast fetters over nearly everyone in its vicinity; only Bilbo and Sam were able to let it go, though Frodo's efforts bore fruit in spite of his failure to let go, the fetters it cast over him held him even after it was gone.

Casting away fetters is part of what Lent is all about. Giving something up, giving to others. It's a lesson that Tolkien knew well.

“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Transcript behind the cut...( Read more... )

TEN WAYS TO LOVE

1. LISTEN without interrupting. (Proverbs 18)
2. SPEAK without accusing. (James 1:19)
3. GIVE without sparing. (Proverbs 21:26)
4. PRAY without ceasing. (Colossians 1:9)
5. ANSWER without arguing. (Proverbs 17:1)
6. SHARE without pretending. (Ephesians 4:15)
7. ENJOY without complaint. (Philippians 2:14)
8. TRUST without wavering. (Corinthians 13:7)
9. FORGIVE without punishment. (Colossians 3:13)
10. PROMISE without forgetting. (Proverbs 13:12)

~Source Unknown~

I don't think everything always comes out quite so neatly or compactly, but the message I think, is true in the way that myth is true: we reap what we sow, whether for good or ill, and whether sooner or later.

And

read_lotr_aloud is having the usual Special Reading on that date:

http://read-lotr-aloud.livejournal.com/63415.html

I know this is short notice, and that many of us are in full

b2mem mode, but if you'd like to participate, it can just be a short reading of your favorite passage! And anyone can take part--you don't need an assignment or even to be a member!

I didn't have to work today, so we got to attend church this morning.

This was our opening prayer:

O gracious and Holy Father,
give us wisdom to perceive thee,
intelligence to understand thee,
diligence to seek thee,
patience to wait for thee,
eyes to behold thee,
a heart to meditate upon thee, and
a life to proclaim thee; through
the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord

And this was the first congregational hymn:

"It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil."

PETER KREEFT, The Philosophy of Tolkien

And also because it is International Happiness Day!

“You will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it... Give up yourself, and you will find your real self.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Last night, Miss Bella and Sophie between them managed to slay an intruder into our house; the DH found them facing off over possession of its wee little corpse, and deprived them of it.

We are fairly certain Miss Bella did the actual deed, but there's no doubt it took both of them to keep it from escaping. We had been wondering why the two of them had been skittering all over the dining room--they weren't chasing each other for a change.

Sophie was not too dreadfully upset over us taking it away, and seemed to forget about it within a few minutes. Miss Bella, OTOH, prowled around, searching the area where it was found, and trying to find another one. And she was giving out "crouching tiger" vibes the rest of the evening.

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