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Passover, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, 2023 04/07/2023 |
As I write this meditation I am aware that Passover began last night for the
Jewish people and today is what Christians call “Holy Thursday” or “Maundy Thursday,” meaning the remembrance and mandate to wash the feet of the poor. (Jn 13:34) The night that Jesus ate his Last Supper with his disciples before being captured and put to death. That commemoration being Friday when you read this meditation, the day of Jesus’ death. |
Clearly there are profound links between all these rich feast days of remembrance. Rabbi Greene reminds us* that a true celebration of Passover forces us to confront the question: “What is it that enslaves us, and why do we fear to break the chains?” Are we ready to leave our particular forms of ‘Egypt,’ our own conditions of slavery? Telling the story of exodus and freedom to the children is an essential element to the holiday. “You shall tell it to your child” (Ex. 13:8). So children have a special place at
Passover. The story of freedom and deliverance and promise is for them. | “The Washing of the Feet and the Last Supper.” Altar retable by Duccio di Buoninsegna in the Cathedral of Siena. Wikimedia Commons. |
On Wednesday this week,
children around America skipped school and filled state legislatures to protest the killings of their own in schools around the nation. In Nashville, capitol of Tennessee and the most recent school killing ground, they got the attention of the head of the legislature who gave them a talk in which—surprise?—he lied to them all. He said banning assault weapons for everyday citizens would make no difference in school killings. He was wrong. And he was lying. When for ten years America banned assault weapons the number of killings went down. And since that law was not reinstated, killings have gone up and up. Why would an adult lawmaker tell children a public
lie? Because he is enslaved to guns. Guns are his Egypt and he likes it. |
Rachel Maddow reports on massive protests by Nashville, TN students demanding legislators act to improve gun safety following the Christian school shooting that left three
children among the dead. MSNBC | This is adultism: Hatred of children. Adults are pharaohs enslaving children and lying to them about it. The same is true of refusal to face climate change and do something meaningful about it—that too is adultism. A refusal
to act on behalf of the future children of the world. |
This is why feast days of Passover, Holy Thursday and Good Friday matter: Because we are all capable of participating in evil and need reminding or
redemption, often from ourselves. Thank God children are calling adults to account. P.S. Since I wrote this 12 hours ago, two young black state legislators have been expelled by the very white majority of Tennesse's legislature. Their crime? Supporting the children. And, of course, being black. It seems the dominant empire of white supremacy and gun supremacists are doing to leaders today what the Roman empire did to Jesus 2000
yeas ago. They will not have the last word. |
*Arthur Green, Judaism for the World: Reflections on God, Life, and Love, pp. 164f. Adapted from Matthew Fox, “Adultism—A Society that Devours its Youth,” in Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, pp. 180-198. Banner Image: One year later, situation unchanged: “Uvalde, Texas – Strange Days of Sorrow in America.” Image by Daniel Arrhakis (2022) on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation
What other examples of
adultism and freedom from it do you see around the world today?
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