{"id":4340,"date":"2020-05-07T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4340"},"modified":"2020-05-05T23:27:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T21:27:06","slug":"those-who-wash-our-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4340","title":{"rendered":"THOSE WHO WASH OUR FEET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After he had washed the feet of his disciples, Jesus said to them:\u00a0\u2018I tell you most solemnly, no servant is greater than his master<\/strong>. (John 13:16)<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Gospel <strong>(John 13:16-20) <\/strong>begins at the conclusion of one of the most dramatic gestures of Jesus, when he washed the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper. It was a very necessary action performed by the lowliest servant when people came into a household after wearing sandals in filthy streets. A necessary action that became highly symbolic. Jesus then teaches that whoever welcomes the servant, welcomes him.<\/p>\n<p>Eugene de Mazenod&#8217;s response:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>I will meditate on Jesus my love in his incarnation, his hidden life, his mission, his passion and death; but especially in his Sacrament and Sacrifice. My chief occupation will be to love him, my chief concern to make him loved. To this I will bend all my efforts, time, strength, and when after much toil I have succeeded in winning but a single act of love towards so good a Master, I will rightly consider myself very well paid.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Retreat notes, December 1812, O.W. XV n. 109<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4341 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Picture2-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today our feet are washed by every one of the generous people who contributes to our welfare and hope in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Let us look at them with new eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Let us recognize this gesture of Jesus loving us through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After he had washed the feet of his disciples, Jesus said to them:\u00a0\u2018I tell you most solemnly, no servant is greater than his master. (John 13:16) Today\u2019s Gospel (John 13:16-20) begins at the conclusion of one of the most dramatic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4340\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}