still Monday
Bible study, pedantry, sorry

sigh
so however counting
today liturgically
is Holy Monday
       if mostly
which
is
a Monday
to acknowledge spiritually
to slog through as with any Monday by
perception
of our culture

aiming for
Friday

Jesus is in Jerusalem
by
tradition
clearing out the Temple
having
final meetings with
strangers
maybe those who
came
to meet him

and what kind of take is this
on meetings
in
our culture
intrsansigent gatherings in
blank rooms to
variously
go through an agenda
then
leave in secular gratitude
maybe with ideas
for
the next hours
next days
or
religionless season

we also read
hear
of an encounter Jesus has
with the leaders of the day
not
Romans so much
as Christ’s own and it goes
badly
really badly
to reinforce a conspiracy

that bad

there will be a meal
later
shared momentously
founding Eucharist
Communion
and
impose a focus on command
to love each other and to be called
friends
who follow Jesus

then more final things
happen
with bitterness and
danger
in
fact
condemnation
increasing

so here we are on Monday
how to have it into
unmarked
by
attitude
Tuesday and Wednesday

what to do
how
to do it

how to have these hours and these days
if
in the spirit of one kind
or another

the spirit of the age
claimed by a few
or
the spirit of all ages claimed by one
then
offered to the rest

like and as
the choice for faith
and
to change the rest so that
the law
the code
come
through and all the love that is
in fact
commanded

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