Maundy Thursday

Today is Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, or Holy & Great Thursday, or Sheer Thursday, or Shire Thursday or Covenant Thursday, Thursday of Mysteries ..... or for some ..... Thursday. So many options.

This day commemorates the Last Supper. The name "Maundy" comes from the Latin word mandatum, meaning "command." This stems from Christ's words in John 13:34, "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another."

Maundy Thursday is the first of the three days known as the Triduum and "Raucous amusements should be set aside..." Hmmmm.

We had an excellent time in London doing non-Maundy Thursday things visiting the stunning Design Museum. It's "Design of the Year" time again, with some wonderful designs in the running. One enables locals in South Sudan to 3D print prosthetic arms for those who have lost limbs in their many wars - amazing! Another was of the calendar, pictured, which I found fascinating. There were air-bag jackets for motorcyclists, tables that charge phones and power lights, self-cleaning toilets designed to work in the harshest of conditions (1.5 million people die each year through diarrhoea related illnesses), self drive cars, street architecture that responds to your personal needs, revolutionary kettles and shock-absorbed wheelchairs. Amazing stuff.