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Maundy Thursday

Thursday of this week (which is Holy Week) is Maundy Thursday.

So I want to wish everyone the maundiest Maundy Thursday ever. The maundier, the better.
\\P. Schultz
  

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[nq:1]Thursday of this week (which is Holy Week) is Maundy Thursday. So I want to wish everyone the maundiest Maundy Thursday ever. [/nq] Wanna wash my feet?

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[nq:1]Thursday of this week (which is Holy Week) is Maundy Thursday. So I want to wish everyone the maundiest Maundy Thursday ever. The maundier, the better.[/nq]
Wanna wash my feet?

Skitt (in SF Bay Area)
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. Emo Phillips
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[nq:1]Thursday of this week (which is Holy Week) is Maundy Thursday. So I want to wish everyone the maundiest Maundy Thursday ever. The maundier, the better.[/nq]
I was transcribing a tape once, and I had never heard of "Maundy Thursday" - you can imagine how confusing it was when it sounded like he said, "Monday Thursday" ...
David Fisher
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[nq:2]Thursday of this week (which is Holy Week) is Maundy ... everyone the maundiest Maundy Thursday ever. The maundier, the better.[/nq]
[nq:1]I was transcribing a tape once, and I had never heard of "MaundyThursday" - you can imagine how confusing it was when it sounded like he said, "Monday Thursday" ...[/nq]
Then there was the hit song by the Mammas and Pappas, 'Monday Monday'.
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OK. Someone had to do this:
Maundy (noun) (plural: maundies): the ceremonial washing of the feet of poor persons in commemoration of Jesus' washing of his disciples' feet (John 13:4 34) re-enacted in some churches on 'Maundy Thursday'.
(ETYMOLOGY: 13th Century: from Old French 'mandé' 'something commanded', from Latin 'mandatum' 'commandment', from the words of Christ: "Mandatum novum do v
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[nq:1]Thursday of this week (which is Holy Week) is Maundy Thursday. So I want to wish everyone the maundiest Maundy Thursday ever. The maundier, the better.[/nq]
All you need is love.

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
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[nq:1]OK. Someone had to do this: Maundy (noun) (plural: maundies): [/nq]
Nope, you're wrong. On this newsgroup, nobody has to do that.

\\P. Schultz
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[nq:2]Thursday" - Then there was the hit song by the Mammas and Pappas, 'Monday Monday'.[/nq]
[nq:1]OK. Someone had to do this: Maundy (noun) (plural: maundies): the ceremonial washing of the feet of poor persons in commemoration of Jesus' washing of his disciples' feet (John 13:4 34) re-enacted in some churches on 'Maundy Thursday'.[/nq]
In the UK, there's also the ceremony of the Royal M
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> OK. Someone had to do this:
[nq:1]Maundy (noun) (plural: maundies): the ceremonial washing of the feet of poor persons in commemoration of Jesus' washing of his ... new commandment give I unto you")) (source: ) I must admit that I didn't know that Christ spoke Latin [/nq]
I don't have to do this, but perhaps it would be as well . . .

The Latin is quoted from St Jerome's tran
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[nq:2]Thursday of this week (which is Holy Week) is Maundy ... everyone the maundiest Maundy Thursday ever. The maundier, the better.[/nq]
[nq:1]All you need is love.[/nq]
Well, so the STS "Monday, Monday" is displaced.

john