This is your Maundy Thursday. Today.

It was the Passover.  Ah yes, the time when the Sanhedrin (religious leaders) could sell the lambs and turtle doves to make more money.  If you wanted a truly sanctioned lamb, you would buy it from them.  Poor?  Don't worry, you can give your last pennies to buy the sacrifice and eat it with your families later.  It was COMMANDED that people remember the Passover every year with Lamb, and they not only cornered the market on that, but also on exchanging (for profit) the Roman coins for shekels, so that people could give their money in a "godly" way. 
And then Jesus came.  He overturned the money changers' tables.  Worse, He became the Passover Lamb and sacrifice for ALL SIN.  He turned the Pesach into something no longer external and rife with corruption and greed, but into something INTERNAL and a real connection with God again.  It was not about supporting the temple industrial complex or its executives.  It was not about people giving what they had to "buy" God's favor.  God reached into their world and touched them deeply and personally.  They would take God in - His Body and Blood.  They would INTERNALIZE this relationship with God again and live His mandate (Maundy) to Love - to live active commitment on behalf of the other.
Just like in the time before the Protestant Reformation, when the church was getting rich selling indulgences for salvation, and just like now, when people are convinced that giving Praise and Tithes to the church (preachers) is what God wants in order for them to be blessed and highly favored - signs of their "righteousness" before God, the mandate to live unconditional, self-sacrificing active commitment on behalf of the other, the mandate of Jesus is something OTHER THAN what the church leaders are leading people to believe and do.  It is not about ritual purity or holiness.  That is among the bill of goods sold to people so that they will pay.  It is about AGAPE LOVE.
So Jesus comes to us in the Lord's Supper, fulfillment of the Pesach.  He comes to save us with His blood.  Will we be too busy trying to "buy" our salvation by some formula (Law) that the church has concocted to receive Him INTERNALLY and then live the LOVE He commands and follow Him?
THIS is your Maundy Thursday.  Today.
Pastor Jamie