Reflection for April 12, 2001: Holy Thursday.

Abstract

A Holy Thursday prayer:|"If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet.|I have given you a model to follow..."|Let me listen with my heart to these words of Jesus. Let me learn this model in my blood, flesh, bones.|Help me, Lord, to shed all pretense in service and love.|When confronted with an opportunity to love, serve, Forgive, soothe, share myself, And I hesitate and think, "This is beneath me," Show me the loving face of Jesus and make me remember|This man will die for me.|Let me remember that the washing of feet, this Intimate, gentle touch That I resist Might be the only way for me to embrace His dying.|Let me remember that when all is passed away The only things left will be the marks, the models, of my service and love.|In the darkness and death, let me remember: "You ought to wash one another's feet. I have given you a model to follow."