Why can only men cut bread on a Maundy Thursday?

"Holy Thursday" is the observance of the so-called Last Supper, chronicled in all four Gospels. It was at this Passover meal in an upper room where Jesus compared the bread and wine to his body and blood. read more

(The word Maundy is a corruption of the Latin word from which we get the English word mandate. We have a mandate to love one another.). This, of course, supposes that Jesus was crucified on Good Friday, although there is much debate about this. read more

"Holy Thursday" is the observance of the so-called Last Supper, chronicled in all four Gospels. It was at this Passover meal in an upper room where Jesus compared the bread and wine to his body and blood. Holy Thursday is sometimes called "Maundy Thursday." Maundy comes from the Latin, "mandare," meaning commandment. read more

But only Christianity believes that this one transcendent God is love — not a God who loves, but a God whose very nature is love. And that, being love, this God goes to the end of unreasonableness, the end of the absurd, the end of the unbelievable, not just to save us, but simply to be with us. read more