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# Rodriguez and Maundy Thursday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/rodriguez-and-maundy-thursday/
- Published: 2024-04-17T06:42:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-08T12:29:50.000Z
- Description: From the conclusion
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Religion, Biography

Rodriguez stayed. He didn’t run from Detroit’s rot, its danger, its slow-motion collapse. He walked those streets, finding something worth loving in that post-industrial armpit. It reminds me of Mother Teresa, wading through Calcutta’s filth, embracing the kind of suffering that’d send the rest of us screaming for a hot shower and a gated suburb.

The average person can learn to accept that he’ll have neither fame nor fortune ([though many of us resent it](https://substack.com/@ericscheske/note/c-108996324?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)). It’s a sort of detachment, or at least resignation, that comes with age. But to shrug off comfort, health, and safety? That’s a rarer breed of detached madness.

And then here we are, staring down Holy Thursday, the cusp of the Triduum, when we’re forced to reckon with the ultimate act of detachment: God himself, stripped bare, broken, and bleeding for a world that barely noticed. Rodriguez, in his own small way, seemed to have walked a shadow of that path.

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[Sixto Rodriguez: A Mini-BiographyAnd offering perhaps a different lens on Holy Thursday.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/icon/https-3A-2F-2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2Fc315bb6b-5fa8-4df7-91ee-a59bfcb565b7-2Fapple-touch-icon-180x180-19.png)Eric Scheske's SubstackEric Scheske![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/thumbnail/https-3A-2F-2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2Fe7d6a145-3fc6-4744-8216-fcf3d89670d5_1024x608-1.png)](https://scheske.substack.com/p/sixto-rodriguez-a-mini-biography)