Hello, friends, welcome to Verity Podcast's Holy Week series.

Today is Mondi Thursday, and we're going to talk about what that means, where that name comes from, and what happened on this day of Holy Week.

Have you ever been to a wedding where the bride and the groom washed each other's feet as a part of the ceremony?

If you have, you're seeing a depiction of something that happened on Mondi Thursday, or Thursday of Holy Week.

And we can read about it in John 13.

So in John 13, it says that, verse 5, then he poured water into a basin

and began washing the disciples' feet and wiping them with the towel which he tied around himself.

So he came to Simon Peter, and he said to him, Lord, are you washing my feet? Jesus answered and said,

what I am doing, you do not realize right now, but you will understand

later. Peter said to him, never shall you wash my feet. Jesus answered him, if I do not wash you,

you have no place with me. And then Simon said, Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and

head. Jesus said to him, he who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, otherwise he is completely clean,

but you are clean, but not all of you. For he knew the one who was betraying him, it was for this

reason he said, not all of you are clean. He goes on to say later on that he has given them an

example of the kind of service that he wishes for them to do. And he says that a slave

is not greater than the master, but that they are to emulate him because he's set an example of

humble service, which is true leadership. And so on Mondi Thursday, we remember this service,

this example of humility in Jesus. And we look to John 13, 34,

which is where Jesus says to his disciples, I am giving you a new commandment that you love one another, as I have a lovely loved you that you also love

one another. So the reason Mondi Thursday is called Mondi Thursday is taken from the Latin word

mandatum, which means command. So on this day, Jesus gave a new command to his disciples, to love one another,

to serve one another, to bend low in humility towards one another. And so we call it Mondi

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