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Originally posted by dtb
You're probably the right person to ask -- what the heck is "Maundy Thursday"? I know it's the Thursday before Easter, but what's a maundy?
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It's the anglicization of
mandatum novum or "new commandment" given by Jesus on the Thursday before the crucifixion.
See John 13:34. It's come to mean the ceremonial foot-washing that occurs at high-church Christian commemorations of Holy Thursday (i.e., Episcopal, Anglo-Catholic, and Roman Catholic). You don't hear a lot of Baptists use the term.
You didn't ask, but "shrove" comes from "to shrive" or to release from one's sins.
ETA: Drat.
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