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Maundy Thursday
Home Events Growing in Faith Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday

  • March 29, 2018
  • 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
  • 891 57th Street Sacramento CA 95819
  • Aquila Fitness
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Join us for wine, juice & homemade bread tasting as we remember Jesus’ last supper.

We’ll gather off-site at 8:00pm on Thursday, March 29. We’ll have bread, wine, & juice together at Aquila Fitness (891 57th Street). Aquila Fitness is located in the antique strip mall near Evan’s Kitchen.  We’ll have our a-frame signs outside to help guide the way.

Many in our community of faith turn to gyms like this one for rehabilitation of our bodies & souls. Jesus gathered for his final meal with his closest friends in an upper room. We’ll turn the gym into our upper room as we remember this sacred meal.

Our casual evening will  include live music, guided questions for reflection, a brief message on the significance of this gathering. Our time will end around 9pm with a celebration of communion.

All are welcome to attend. Friends are encouraged. If you would like to bring bread, juice or wine… please email Pastor Linda Dew-Hiersoux here.

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"Messianic Secret"
FROM THE ARTIST:
“Messianic Secret”
Inspired by John 2:1-11
14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

—Rev. T. Denise Anderson