Maundy Thursday in the time of COVID
I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:23-24). “I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,” Paul tells the Corinthians. Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of me.” We typically think of remembering as the mental equivalent of looking at an old photograph—the dusting off of facts and experiences from the past, bringing some encapsulated historical bits out of their filing cabinet or museum case, out of the forgotten archives, into the present for a few brief moments of reflection. But this is not the kind of remembering that Paul is talking about; this is not “biblical” remembering, not “biblical” memory. You all know that well-worn soap opera plot device that uses amnesia —where someone gets hit on the head and can’t remembe