Holy Thursday Reflection

Here's a quote from N.T. Wright's Christians at the Cross about Maundy Thursday and the Lord's Supper; Wright reflects on 1 Corinthians 11:

[St. Paul the apostle] means that when you do this - even if it's just two or three of you here, or in an old people's home, or with a crowd in a cathedral, wherever - you are actually announcing to the world around, to the principalities and powers that keep people enslaved and fearful and angry, that Jesus is Lord, and that his death has broken the power of sin and fear and sorrow and shame. This meal is therefore simultaneously part of our journey through bereavement, acting out the dying of Jesus within which our own sorrows can be held and dealt with, and also part of our mission, because it is the powerful declaration that on the cross of Jesus Christ the living God has dealt with all that distorts and defaces human life. And this meal therefore propels us out, to go into the community in the confidence that God is at work, that Jesus is Lord, that the Spirit can and does heal and renew (45-46).