Thursday, March 24, 2016 Holy Thursday 1st Reading: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14 2nd
Reading: 1 Cor 11:23-26 Gospel: Jn 13:1-15
They were at supper and the devil had already put into the mind of Judas, son of Simon Is cariot, to betray. Je sus knew that the Father had entrusted all things to him, and as he had come from God, he was go ing to God. So he got up from table, removed his garment and taking a towel, wrapped it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel he was wearing.
When he came to Simon Peter, Simon said to him, “Why, Lord, you want to wash my feet!” Jesus said, “What I am doing you cannot under stand now, but afterwards you will understand it.” Peter replied, “You shall never wash my feet.”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you can have no part with me.” Then Simon Peter said, “Lord, wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head!”
Jesus replied, “Whoever has taken a bath does not need to wash (except the feet), for he is clean all over. You are clean, though not all of you.” Jesus knew who was to betray him; be cause of this he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
When Jesus had finished washing their feet, he put on his garment again, went back to the table and said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Master and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I, then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also must wash one ano ther’s feet. I have just given you an example that as I have done, you also may do.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life Experience)
Sullied by original sin, baptism made us clean. “Whoever has taken a bath does not need to wash”, Jesus declared. But we still need periodic washings to get us cleared. For by the gift of freedom we continue to commit personal sins against God. Baptism hasn’t stripped us of the gift of freedom from above. “Whoever has taken a bath does not need to wash (except the feet), for he is clean all over”.
“Except the feet” refers to our trekking of the wrong path over and over.
Jesus washed the Apostles’ feet in utter humility. He does this again to anyone who goes to Confession in all sincerity. The challenge he gave the Apostles at the washing of the feet is the same challenge to every penitent Jesus would repeat: “If I, then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you also must wash one ano ther’s feet”.
Here lies the missionary dimension of every confession. Added to the spiritual cleansing we also get this commission: to serve others in humility even if it comes to the point of washing their feet literally.—Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM. Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com.
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