Preached by Rev. Erik Kindem.
Scripture: Exodus 12:1-14; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-17; John 13:31b-35
Summary
“The history of music,” writes Jessica Wapner, “is rich with sounds spurred by suffering." Recently, a long-lost recording of Holocaust survivors from just after World War 2 was recovered, and it provides “a poignant new soundtrack for understanding life in the Nazi concentration camps and Jewish ghettos.”
This Maundy Thursday night, voices from the past invite us to re—member tonight: to link together what was broken apart. The voices of our spiritual ancestors recall events from 2,000 and 3,500 years ago. And while we don’t have the live recordings of their voices, we do have their words, passed on from generation to generation, telling us what is essential in the sacred events they portray. Each text has a story behind it and each story calls for us to DO THIS to remember.