Since I was a child I've been asking the same question every time the Holy Week comes. What exactly does the word "Maundy" in Maundy Thursday means? Thanks to google and wikipedia I am now able to look it up. This was a resource not available 2 decades ago and is something that I can use now. So far, I have gotten 2 significant definitions of the word online:
1. :a ceremony of washing the feet of the poor on Maundy Thursday.
2. a: alms distributed in connection with the maundy ceremony or on Maundy Thursday
b: maundy money.
The second definition is more of a tradition that was started by the English Monarchs centuries ago. The first one, on the other hand, is more of what the explanation I needed was. Connecting it to what I actually know about the New Testament in the Bible, it was then a Thursday when Jesus washed his disciples' feet which was just before the Friday when he died on the cross.
Now I can rest knowing what it meant and not asking myself the same question I've been asking since childhood.
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