Posted on 03/28/2024 1:19:36 PM PDT by MurphsLaw
John 13:1-15
Friends, in today’s Gospel,
Jesus washes the disciples’ feet.
He is giving them a visual proclamation of his new commandment:
“Love one another. As I have loved you,
so you also should love one another.”
When we accept this commandment, we walk the path of joy.
When we internalize this law, we become happy.
And so the paradox:
happiness is never a function of filling oneself up;
it is a wonderful function of giving oneself away.
When the divine grace enters one’s life
(and everything we have is the result of divine grace),
the task is to contrive a way to make it a gift.
In a sense, the divine life—which exists only in gift form—
can be “had” only on the fly.
Notice please that we are to love with a properly divine love:
“I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.”
Radical, radical, radical.
Complete, excessive, over-the-top.
So when he had washed their feet
and put his garments back on and reclined at table again,
he said to them, “Do you realize what I have done for you?
You call me ‘teacher’ and ‘master,’
and rightly so, for indeed I am.
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,
so that as I have done for you, you should also do.”+++
Boobie is as nutty as his radical mentor, Bergoglio.
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