Opening Prayer: Here, Lord, I abandon myself to you. I have tried in every way I could think of to
manage myself, and to make myself what I know I ought to be, but have always
failed. Now I give it up to you. Do take entire possession of me. Work in me all the good pleasure of your
will. Mold and fashion me into such a
vessel as seems good to you. I leave
myself in your hands. Amen. (The
Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith)
Scripture: John 13:1-17
Journal: Do
you understand what I have done for you? What does it look like in
your life to be a foot-washer? How will
you follow his example? How will
that happen today?
Reflection:
This is the Season of Love. What happens in us is the miracle of
discovering our potential to care for others.
And so, we become foot-washing, water-walking, healing, beatitude
people. Our lives begin to bless. We are compelled to respond to the Word of
God, to speak in the Holy Name, to live out our ministry of love.
We are fragile vessels whose love often
gets tired. We need to be converted over
and over again. And so, the healing act
of our growth continues. We empty
ourselves that we may be filled. We
uproot that we may proclaim. We take off
our masks. We call forth gifts. We bless.
We wash feet. And somewhere
between the shedding of our masks and the foot-washing, we discover that it is
not so much what we do that touches lives as who we are becoming. And so we rest in the truth that what is most
important is not how much of ourselves we leave with others, but how much we
enable others to be themselves. (Seasons of the Heart by Macrina
Wiederkehr)
Prayers
Closing Prayer: Christ has no body now on earth but yours;
yours are the only hands with which he can do his work, yours are the only feet
with which he can go about the world, yours are the only eyes through which his
compassion can shine forth upon a troubled world. Christ has no body now on earth but
yours. ~Teresa of Avila
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