Today is a day of story-telling of God’s deep love for us. God puts on an apron and washes the feet of his friends. A simple gesture of profound significance. Jesus desires to show his disciples how much he loves them before he takes leave for the events in the garden and beyond. He desires this to be carried on again and again - washing the feet of those among us in need of love, healing touch, tenderness, forgiveness, acceptance, justice, and freedom.
I have witnessed in parishes where there would be chairs set up in the aisles with towels, a bowl for washing feet, a pitcher of water, and an attendant. Then the people of the congregation would take their turns at these stations to wash one another’s feet. I have always been deeply moved when I watched little children wash the feet of their parents or grandparents. Or a husband and wife washing each others’ feet. How holy is this? “This night is about bread and wine, about bodies and blood, about feet and washing, about intimacy and unbounded, unexpected love, about a God who bends before us hoping that one day we will treat each other with the same regard and dignity that he has always lavished upon us.” (Megan McKenna, Lent)
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