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King Charles III has spoken concerning the significance of exhibiting care and kindness to others in a message that was specifically recorded for Maundy Thursday.
The King was unable to accompany the Queen to a Maundy Thursday service at Worcester Cathedral as he continues to obtain therapy for most cancers.
Instead, the recorded message was performed through the service at which the Queen offered Maundy Money to 75 males and 75 girls in recognition of service to their native church buildings and communities.
In addition to the specifically minted Maundy cash, the purses contained a particular 50p piece made to mark the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s 2 hundredth anniversary.
The King praised the recipients as “great examples of such kindness; of going means past the decision of obligation and of giving a lot of their lives to the service of others of their communities”.
In his message, recorded from his desk in Buckingham Palace, he mentioned that the Maundy Service “has a really particular place in my coronary heart” and spoke concerning the origins of the service “within the lifetime of Our Lord who knelt earlier than his disciples and, to their nice shock, washed their travel-weary toes and, as we’ve simply heard, in doing so he intentionally gave to them and to us all an instance of how we should always serve and take care of one another”.
He continued, “In this nation we’re blessed by all of the totally different companies that exist for our welfare. But over and above these organisations and their selfless workers, we’d like and profit tremendously from those that lengthen the hand of friendship to us, particularly in a time of want.”
Maundy Thursday commemorates the second on the Last Supper when Jesus washed the toes of the disciples and gave them the command – or ‘mandatum’ in Latin – to like each other as he had beloved them.
The custom of monarchs giving out Maundy cash goes again to the seventeenth century when King Charles II distributed cash in a ceremony in 1662.
