As we move into Holy Week, Maundy Thursday opens the door for us to relive Jesus’ final act of grace, the Lord’s Supper. Growing up with a Presbyterian Pastor for a father I heard thunderous sermons about not taking the bread and the cup “unworthily”—and I was actually terrified as a child to even touch the communion tray as it was passed hand to hand down the row, so I really learned nothing of the grace and the ‘communion” of people sharing this event until I was nearly an adult. Communion was a serious, solemn, silent commemoration—the table piled high with trays and veiled with a white cloth that even seemed to have the shape of a funeral casket underneath! Read More…