40 days of Reading the Bible by a Clueless, Wandering, Wannabe Christian

So, it's the 40th day! The final day of Lent is actually Holy Thursday. So, since I'd covered all the Sundays of lent, I've completed 39 days and gotten here without having ideally covered every reading in the Holy Week. To wrap up my exercise, I will focus on the verses from Thursday and (good) Friday to wrap up this exercise, as it's at the heart of Christian faith. I attended the service yesterday and was surprised to find almost half of it was in Polish - both songs and readings. Didn't realize there was such a huge Polish community in Taunton, UK and thought it interesting.  (Prayer and song sound even more intriguing when you don't understand the language so you are forced to go by feel and not by words).  Interestingly, unlike the case in India where 12 older folks are selected for the washing of the feet, the main priest walked down the middle of the church and washed different people's feet (seemingly at random). Maundy Thursday As a chil...

16 March, Day 31 : John: 1-2.10 and 25-30 You know that sinking feeling you get when you know something horrible is about to happen in a movie you are watching or have watched many times? (Titanic, Braveheart, every episode of Game of Thrones) Where you wait reluctantly for that 'sad thing' to happen - be it a sinking ship, torture and killing of the hero or that war of mayhem where everybody dies! That's the feeling I get as we draw closer to Good Friday and the daily gospel is beginning to reflect that, against a more frequently appearing background of people murmuring and plotting against him and general fear, dislike and lack of acceptance of his teachings. Today's verse is from John 7:1.2-10 and 25-30 : Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, “You know me and also know where I am from.  Yet I did not come on my own, but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. Thoughts:   Familiarity breeds contempt. Not sure about the...