{"id":1434,"date":"2015-04-01T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T11:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2015-03-01T15:21:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T15:21:22","slug":"what-is-maunday-thursday-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"What is Maunday Thursday all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maunday Thursday \u00a0is the Thursday before Easter Day &#8211; 2nd April<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On Maundy Thursday Christians remember when Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples, breaking bread and drinking wine, which is now known as the Last Supper.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We remember this by sharing bread and wine together in a service called Holy Communion. It is a reminder that Jesus sacrificed his life for all of us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At this meal Jesus told his followers that they should love and serve one another. He demonstrated this by washing the feet of the disciples &#8211; something a servant would normally do. You can read this story in the Bible in John Ch.13 v1-15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The word\u00a0<em>maundy<\/em> comes from the command (mandate) given by Jesus at the Last Supper, that we should love one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maunday Thursday \u00a0is the Thursday before Easter Day &#8211; 2nd April On Maundy Thursday Christians remember when Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples, breaking bread and drinking wine, which is now known as the Last Supper. We remember this by sharing bread and wine together in a service called Holy Communion. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}