Holy Week Meditation -- Great and Holy Thursday

 

Source: oca.org

He said, “Do this in remembrance of Me” (Lk. 22:19). We are blessed today to keep that commandment and to do this in remembrance of Him. …

In this Divine Liturgy, we will remember and proclaim the entire plan of God—all of the marvelous, wonderful works of God for the sake of our salvation. …

So we remember, we proclaim, and we celebrate that we have been given the honor of living in paradise, enjoying God’s blessings forever. These blessings are nothing less than the very qualities of God Himself. Our delight—and our paradise—is to live within the communion of the Holy Trinity of the uncreated Godhead, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and to enjoy these unending blessings by keeping His commandments.

—Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko, “Remember Me, O Lord,” in Holy Week: A Series of Meditations