170414 Maundy – changing times

By April 17, 2014 zBlog Archives

170414_LRMaundy: ‘Originally (more fully Maundy ceremony): the ceremony of washing the feet of a number of poor people, performed by royal or other eminent people, or by ecclesiastics, on the Thursday before Easter’ (OED). So that’s the traditional definition, but times have moved on and hares dishing out free Easter eggs seems to be the new Maundy.