Today is Maundy Thursday and the end of Lent that began on Ash Wednesday forty days ago. These forty days were intended to be a time of self-reflection and spiritual renewal as one prepares himself or herself for Good Friday and Easter Sunday. In the early church, on Ash Wednesday, if you recall from my sermon on that day, those Christians who committed grave faults were forced to wear sackcloth and be sprinkled with ashes. They were turned out of the Christian community the same as when Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden for their transgressions. During those forty days they were to reflect and do penance. On Maundy Thursday, today, the day on which we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, they are allowed once again back into the Christian community, reconciled with the Lord and w…