“If I, the Lord and the Teacher, wash your feet,
This... I set an example for you”
During the Last Supper, Jesus set an example for the apostles of large humility. He acts not like individual to be served, but like 1 to serve. She washes her feet for the apostles. This service was performed by slaves. We know how shocked the apostles were. The apostle Peter defended himself peculiarly radically, but yet he listened. Jesus says, “Learn from me, for I am quiet and humble in heart.” From time to time, for example, in tiny communities, erstwhile a year, 1 can make specified a motion that brothers wash each other's feet. any non-Catholics practice this even more often. To wash the feet of another brother, as well as to let his own feet to be washed, is simply a motion of humility, especially erstwhile done honestly, with the awareness of his guilt, which he frequently has not seen for a long time.
When Saint Anthony the Hermit was asked who could be saved in the first place, he replied clearly: “Only a humble man.” I mean, the 1 who cast God's ego off the throne of his soul and placed Jesus on it. This is the essence of salvation. Above all, we must humble ourselves erstwhile individual tells us the fact to our face. The first reaction is anger, self-defense, arguments that he's wrong... But we must halt and say, “Brother, now I do not understand, but I believe that I will realize that there is simply a grain of fact in your words.” And then we gotta ask the Lord for light. And the climax is besides thanking the brother (maybe later): “For now I have learned so much truth. Thank you for pointing out to me a bad habit, a mistake I have been repeating for years, and which has already become part of my nature, so I haven't even noticed it.”
When Jesus was with his disciples for the last time before his death, he revealed to them certain things concerning the attitude of the ministry.--Lk 22:24-27.
(a) What were the students arguing about? (verse 24)
(b) How did Jesus show his humility? (verse 27)
(c) What should those who imitate Christ do? (verse 26)
(d) How is this course different from that of the world? (verse 25)