This sermon was preached for Maundy Thursday, April 14, 2022 at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. Francesco Malavolta, Associated Press, March 8, 2022, Przemysl, Poland. One image from the early days of the Ukrainian war has stuck in my mind lately, a photo by Associated Press photographer, Francesco Malavolta. It’s a shot of strollers lined up on an empty train station platform in Poland. The photograph captured a moment of the kind of compassion that is at once both ordinary and extraordinary – and precisely the kind of love to which Jesus calls us tonight. Here is the simple story of the strollers: As Ukrainian families began to flee their country in droves, streaming toward the safety of the Polish border, strollers like these began appearing at Polish train stations. They were left by Polish mothers and fathers who had heard of the plight of the mostly woman and child refugees. In her poignant piece for the Washington Post entitled, “What mothers know about war,” Monica Hesse