In my fourth grade Sunday school class at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Lent was a big deal. We were promised a certificate of achievement if we did certain things. We had to collect an offering of money in a box. We had to give up something we liked – I gave up Coca-Cola. We had to attend every Sunday church service.<\/p>\n
Oh, and we had one more requirement. We had to come to church on Maundy Thursday.<\/p>\n
I earned my certificate, but I never learned why Thursday was a
\n\u201cMaundy\u201d day.<\/p>\n
I attended Rhodes, a Presbyterian-affiliated college, where I had the privilege of taking three religion classes from the late great Dr. Milton Brown. But I never learned what \u201cMaundy\u201d meant there either.<\/p>\n
Checkiday to the rescue.<\/a> \u201cMaundy\u201d means \u201cwashing of feet.\u201d Jesus washed the disciples\u2019 feet on Holy Thursday before the Last Supper.<\/p>\n For those of you who prefer secular holidays, today is also National Cheeseball Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Grizzlies now know their opponents for Friday\u2019s play-in game at FedExForum for the Western Conference 8 seed: the Dallas Mavericks. 8:30 PM, ESPN. Dallas defeated the Sacramento Kings last night to advance in the play-in. <\/span><\/p>\n Jaren Jackson Jr. will give away 250 tickets<\/a> to tomorrow\u2019s game this afternoon at 4 PM in FedExForum\u2019s lobby.<\/span><\/p>\n All Memphis public libraries will be closed tomorrow for Good Friday. Those libraries will use any excuse to close. I\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t close today for Cheeseball Day. <\/span><\/p>\n First Horizon is hiring an intern<\/a> for their Memphis Trust Department.<\/span><\/p>\n History of the Internet, part one<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n MLGW\u2018s downtown offices were evacuated<\/a> yesterday afternoon due to a foul odor.<\/span><\/p>\n Rest in peace, Wink Martindale.<\/a> The game show host got his start broadcasting here in Memphis.<\/span><\/p>\n Wiseacre is hiring a bartender<\/a>.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget, Monday is 50% off candy day at Walgreens. Go get you some Cadbury Eggs and Marshmallow Peeps and a chocolate bunny. <\/span><\/p>\n Make my Easter a happy one!<\/strong><\/em> In my fourth grade Sunday school class at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Lent was a big deal. We were promised a certificate of achievement if we did certain things. We had to collect an offering of money in a box. We had to give up something we liked – I gave up Coca-Cola. … Continue reading “Thursday update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28564,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28563\/revisions\/28564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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