"One of the great things about Jesus' washing of his disciples' feet is that it is fraught with symbolic significance."

Thursday • 4/14/2022 Today is Maundy Thursday. On the evening of this day, Jesus gives his disciples their mandate — their new commandment — to love one another with the love with which he had loved them.

Rather than from the passages in the Daily Office lectionary, I’ll be basing my reflections today on the Gospel passage the lectionary prescribes for this evening’s Maundy Thursday service:

John 13:1–17,31b–35, with its description of Jesus’s washing of his disciples’ feet and his issuing of the new commandment.

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