Prayer Prompt before reading JN 13:1-15: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
“I HAVE GIVEN YOU A MODEL TO FOLLOW, SO THAT AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU, YOU SHOULD ALSO DO.” JN 13:1-15
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Today, Holy Thursday, the Institution of the priesthood and Eucharist, Jesus gives us the first Mass. In John’s Gospel, he does not use the words of institution but rather focuses on the washing of the disciples feet. Jesus provides a model that mirrors the crucifixion.
The lowliest Jewish slave did not wash his master’s feet. This symbolizes the crucifixion. Some scripture scholar’s believe the washing of the feet symbolizes baptism. The teaching Christ is handing on to us is to be selfless. “There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends.” JN 15:13
God became a Man to show us how much the Father loves us, to redeem us by giving His own life up to atone for every sin, and be a model of holiness. This is true love. There is no greater love. This is what our hearts are truly yearning for. We are fulfilled when we are selfless and give up ourselves for the other, when we learn to serve.
Enter each room asking how you can help. Get off of screens and spend time with humans giving and receiving. Sacrifice what you want for the benefit of the other. At the heart of Holy Thursday, Jesus teaches us to be other-centered. It takes a lifetime, a vocation, and training our mind to wake each day and be other-centered. If you make this choice, the rewards are eternal!
Today’s challenge: Take time to go to watch the Easter Triduum, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, the three highest feast days on all of the Church calendar. How did these events change YOUR life forever and all of human history? Jesus opens wide His heart for you, gives up His life for you, and desires a personal relationship with you. The hardest part, you have to carve out time to spend with Him each day! God doesn’t want to change you, He wants to transform your heart. Be not afraid. Ask God for His grace, it transforms what sin has damaged.
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; We will live again!)
God gave us his only son, Jesus, and Jesus gave up his life for our sins and that so we could live a normal life. He suffered for us, he gave his life for us, he is one with us, you just have to accept that. He is our Lord and our Savior, thank him.
I think that Jesus is trying to invite us to come be with him in the after life because this life is temporary and the after life is permanent.
Something that I got out of this was that Jesus is the ultimate role model for us. Jesus is the king of kings, the master of the universe, yet he decided to wash his followers feet. John the Baptist said that he is not worthy to untie his sandals, yet he here he is not only untying his disciples sandals, but washing them.
In today’s Gospel Jesus is reading a scroll in the synogogue and I think that Jesus specifically picked that scroll because it perfectly describes the work he has done on Earth. Then he ends it saying that the people who heard it fulfilled the scroll and this goes to show the smartness and cleverness of God.
To really be fulfilled and be fully one you have to give yourself up. You need to be completely selfless to be full of God’s grace. it’s a very hard thing to do and it will take time but being fulfilled and feeling loved is worth it. Once you give everything up to God it will be hard for a little bit but soon your life will be the best it has ever been you will have the best friendships, the best family, you will just have a good time and enjoy yourself because God is now within you.
“There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends.” Today God is telling me that a true friend would make sacrifices for you. A friend is someone who you can rely on without having a doubt. If you are hanging around people who are selfish and put you down, then get away from them, they aren’t friends they are just burdens. You need to find people who make you feel loved instead of hurt or left out or any of that. Yes I know we aren’t perfect and some people will make mistakes, but that’s what apologies are for. They help in times of need. Jesus is your real friend and Father, He died for you. Barely ever has someone died for you, if they have be grateful and love them forever for God has loved you.
You have an amazing heart, Leslie! This is so true!
Jesus walked into the sabbath on Sunday like he was supposed to and he was handed a scroll of Isiah. When he gets this scroll it talks about things that he has already done and prophets he has already fulfilled. This is so interesting to me because he gets a prophet that he has already fulfilled. Then he gave it back to them and said that this scripture Is fulfilled in your hearing. I’m not sure what that means fulfilled in your hearing. I think it has something to do with them being witnesses’ to God’s power and holiness.
Yes, he is saying that the Scripture is fulfilled in their hearing because it is talking about Jesus who is in their presence.
Todays gospel is about how we need to serve others like how Jesus served his apostles by washing there feet, despite Jesus being God and our master he still did the work of a slave and washed there feet showing how we need to serve others so we can be with Jesus eternally
There is no greater love than this than to lay down one’s life for one’s friend. Jesus did this for all of us. Jesus who is literally God gave up his life us. He became human to serve us, not to punish us
Now, we are called to do the same for others in our vocation.
In today’s gospel the lord speaks of he went to the synogathg and everyone was watching after he spoke for the all the things the scripture had said he had already done .
It was the washing of the Apostle’s feet. I’m not sure what you read?
In todays scripture it says “There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends. This is saying that the most profound and selfless act of love is to sacrifice one’s life for the well-being of those who are loved, Jesus was telling His disciples to give up the things they wanted to do and to give of themselves to others.
in the the scripture it says that God doesn’t want to change us, to me this means that He truly does love us for what we are and how we are, that doesn’t mean that we can do anything and think that we will get to just go to heaven, no. We still have to be kind and loving and we will be fine, but the main thing is that God will always love us and give us another chance, its never to late to change how you look at your lives and the world.
When Jesus washes the feet of the apostles, it is a truly selfless act. Throughout the Gospels and Jesus’s life, He is always giving Himself for others and doing selfless acts while He is also saying that He is the King. Jesus didn’t come into this world to fight and use violence, He came here to spread love and peace and hope. Jesus gave Himself up for us on the cross and we need to recognize this every day and recognize the love He has for us that poured out from Him the day He was crucified.
What stuck out to me was the final sentence of the Gospel, it said “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” When Jesus says that, I think he means that this Gospel is what you make it, like you decide what he means of the passage he read. You get to decide how much you believe and how much you trust Jesus.
When God sent Jesus down He shows His humility but now when Jesus washes His disciples feet that is part of how humble He was. God sent Jesus down because of how much He loved us. We all sacrifice things for others, now not as extreme as Jesus did, but we all have to follow Him. We need to give up some things and go help other people and it will fulfill us in the long-run.
Jesus opens wide His heart for you, gives up His life for you, and desires a personal relationship with you. God doesn’t want to change you, He wants to transform your heart. God became a Man to show us how much the Father loves us, to redeem us by giving His own life up to atone for every sin, and be a model of holiness.
Holy Thursday we celebrate Jesus one last time before Easter. During Easter we need to be reminded that the love of the father Jesus who died for us loved us so much he had us in mind when he died. God’s love is so great his word became flesh. So this Easter fully give yourself to Jesus and you will be rewarded with eternal life.
Have you ever gotten out of practice and your feet are hurt, smelly, and are covered with dirt. Well this is what happens to all of us, and when this happens we need to take a shower. Jesus in this story cleans the feet of his apostles and they don’t know what he is doing. When we sin, we are covered with such guilt that we can’t take it off; but we hide it. This sin can’t be showered off by ourselves because we can;t forgive our own sins. This water isn’t meant to make the feet clean, but the soul clean. This all takes place before the passion of Christ, and Jesus is telling us that he will save us from our sins, that he will pay the price. That he will set us free from this prison. Have we ever thought that we are still spinning, going back to that place. We are all in need of cleansing, but we ourselves can’t forgive it. Jesus can; and we all need to do the same thing by cleaning others, forgive them. As Venerable Kapaun said “if you fail to forgive, you fall in Faith”. Forgive, rise in Faith.
In Today’s Gospel nothing really stuck out to me because it is already stuff I’ve learned. Sorry I did not really have anything to reflect on today.
It is not about re-learning, it is about putting yourself into the Scripture and seeing what Jesus did for you!
“At the heart of Holy Thursday, Jesus teaches us to be other-centered.” This stood out to me because it is hard for most people. Many people don’t think about others and only think about themselves so it would be hard for a lot of people to be other-centered.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus reveals to the people at the synagogue that He is the Christ. We are sometimes like the people in the synagogue because they didn’t believe that Jesus was really Christ. We have to really believe and do something that reminds us that Jesus is real and is the Christ, Lord, and savior of everyone
God loves each one of us. He became man for ever one of us.there is no greater love the God. we need to learn to serve.we need to spend more time with God instead of are screens.
This scripture is calling me to stop my screen time and spend time with God. To stop watching things and instead helping people with things. God is calling me to sacrafice things for other people.
When Jesus washes his disciples feet, He gives us an example of what we should be doing for others. We should be helping people no matter how bad their conditions are.
It was telling me why God the Father came down to Earth to show us his Love!
In today’s scripture it talks about Jesus’s crucifixion,and how it affects us.It affects us in a way that This man made from the flesh of God died for us and for our humanity,sin,and for our sake.God became a Man to show us how much the Father loves us, to redeem us by giving His own life up to atone for every sin, and be a model of holiness.
“I HAVE GIVEN YOU A MODEL TO FOLLOW, SO THAT AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU, YOU SHOULD ALSO DO.” JN 13:1-15.In todays Gospel Jesus returns to Nazareth to the synagogue to pray and read scripture.He was handed a scroll of the prophet Isiah and tells the people “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” I think that God is telling us to preach his word in uncomfortable places and to be brave when you are doing it.
Something that stuck out to me was that God doesn’t want to change u he wants to transform you into a better person. this stuck out to me because God created you to be you. Not anyone else.
something that stuck with me when I read this is that sacrifice things for others so they may be happy and you may be happy with them. Jesus is the true example he gave up his life so we could go to heaven and be eternally joyful with him. Jesus gave up EVERYTHING for his apostles and also cleaned their feet when hes the master. Jesus was God and had anything and everything he could ever want and his apostles didn’t have anything they sinened, they lied, they did bad things and yet Jesus cleaned their feel this really shows how much he Loves us. He shows that he willing to do anything for us and anything for us to be with him and be eternally joyful with him in Heaven.
I think the phrase “There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends.” is kinda talking about how to be in a good friendship we need to put in effort and sacrifice stuff of our own just like Jesus did for us. Also I feel that this is also saying for us to be in a good relatonship with Jesus we need to sacrifice our belongings to avoid being districted from doing Gods will and being closer to him.
Today Jesus is saying he is God. He says that he is the way to be happy. Without him we are like those who walk in the darkness. Jesus fulfills the scriptures by speaking them because Jesus is God and the scriptures are the word of God. This means the scriptures are also the word of Jesus. By reading the scriptures today Jesus reveals the Father to us.
I think today’s scripture is trying to tell us that we need to be selfless and we need to be kind to others around us. Sometimes an act of kindness to someone, like complimenting their outfit, or helping them on an assignment, can mean the world to them. Jesus also wants us to help others because whatever we do to the least of our brothers we do to him.
“Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” he doesn’t usually say this after he finishes reading a something, this was different. He knew something bad was happening very soon he didn’t know how to accept that.
Today is to me the definition of Jesus and God. Not that he has a definition but I think everyone should have in their head what they truly think means God/Jesus. Today’s reading is our life in which we build our salvation. Jesus fulfilled the scripture he made the blind see the def hear! This is what makes him our God HIS love! There was a bank space in the scripture he FILLED it! That is amazing Jesus was the last piece of the puzzle. He is what united us with God. Without Jesus there may not have been any Catholicism or other religions! We are a puzzle and we have to find Jesus the last piece.
In this passage, Jesus returns to Nazareth, his hometown, and reads from the prophet Isaiah, revealing his mission to bring hope and freedom. He declares that he is sent to help those who are suffering, like the poor and the oppressed, showing us that God cares deeply for everyone.
“Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
In today’s Gospel Jesus is saying that the scripture has been fulfilled because Jesus is here and alive and breathing. That Jesus has come to earth to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He is saying that guys hey I’m God / the one who sent me is and He is my father
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me;” He is always going to be upon us. Even when we aren’t even looking above we can’t see Him but we always know He’s there with us. And there is always a guardian angel by our side too. Someone is always right by our side when times are tough.
Something that stuck out to me in today’s gospel was when Jesus said “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” This stuck out to me because we are learning about the Passion and this sentence is kind of the beginning of it.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. We need to remind ourselves that Jesus loves us so much and that we need to pray to him. We have to let the Holy Spirit guide us through the way because he will lead us to the right place. Jesus has gave us everything we can possibly need so we need to adore him all the time.
In today’s gospel Jesus is reading from the scriptures and after he reads from them he says that today the scriptures have been fulfilled. When he says that he is meaning that today the son of God will come down and save everybody from hell and sin and take us into his kingdom so we can spend time with him and be fully with him for eternal life.
In today’s Reading Jesus is breaking the bread during the last supper it gives us the priest hood. It shows us how brave Christ is by knowing while breaking the bread he will die. We need to be like Christ and be brave.
He doesn’t break the bread in John’s Gospel today, he washes the Apostle’s feet.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.”
This is the main part of the gospel that stood out to me, Jesus wants us to be with him, dwell with him, and live in his holiness. We need to understand that Jesus is doing everything in his power to bring us closer to him, if your saying “well he needs to try harder then, i don’t feel close to him”. Then its YOU, YOU need to also bring yourself closer to him, Jesus cant be the only one trying, you need to try if you don’t Jesus can only bring you close but you can bring yourself right up to him, if you try if you don’t, again you will not be that close to him when you don’t try, so try.
“God became a Man to show us how much the Father loves us, to redeem us by giving His own life up to atone for every sin, and be a model of holiness.”
this is one of my favorite line. it tells us why he died and became man for us
God gave his only son and sent him to die for all of our sins. While Jesus was reading the scroll I think he was trying to tell us all the works he done for us and he is truly the son of God.
God sends his son to save us, and in the Gospel the Scirciture fulfillment is just about to begin
God the Father sent Jesus down to fulfill the scriptures or to be the son of man Jesus was overly humble for being the Son of God he had the confidence to say to the people at the synagogue no matter what he never cared about the humility they tried to stone him and he just walked away this is what stuck out to me
what stuck out to me was when it said that the scripture is fulfilled because it tells me that Jesus is capable of everything because of the father
In today’s Gospel, I feel like Jesus was telling me how to love one another. Jesus made so many sacrifices for us that it makes it hard to understand how we can refuse to do little things for our friends and family. Doing simple acts is an amazing way to love and get closer to God. When we do things, it shouldn’t always be in front of others to get noticed, but for our personal benefit. Jesus washed the feet of his disciples to symbolize cleansing them from sin. Even though he never clearly stated that all of them were clean (Judas). Having one of your friends betray you is a horrible thing. Building strong relationships requires sacrifice, suffering, and humility. It is the same for building a relationship with God.
I think that today in the Gospel God is telling us to love everyone around us, because that is what Jesus would do. We must follow his example so that we can get to Heaven.
Today what stuck out to me was that Jesus cleans the feet of the Apostles, so that they felt clean, their sin was removed that day, and He literally cleaned every single one of their feet. I think that is just amazing that He would do that for us! Jesus laid down His life for us. This is who we need in our lives! Someone who doesn’t gossip, someone who is always there for you, someone who will listen to all you have to say. Jesus is the TRUE FRIEND. So, let us all strive to be more like Jesus in these last days of Lent.
Jesus knows about all that is to come and He still goes through all my of this for us. He knew that He would be taking on all the sins of the world so that we may achieve Heaven. A perfect unblemished man was killed for our sake. In today’s Gospel He performs an act of humility. He washes the feet of the apostles He gives us an example of what we should do to each other.
“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.” Jesus is the Son of God, washing his followers feet, something most people even servants wouldn’t do. Jesus showed that even when Simon Peter refused He still insisted.
In today’s scripture it is saying that the most profound and selfless act of love is to sacrifice one’s life for the well-being of those who are loved, Jesus was telling His disciples to give up the things they wanted to do and to give of themselves to others.
“So, during supper, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God.” I think this means that Jesus knew he had all the power in the world, but he choose to suffer for us.
In the Gospel today it talks about how Jesus is the best role model for us. Jesus shows us right from wrong. It talks about how he washed the feet of his disciples, that just shows that Jesus cares about us and wants the best for us, so he shows us what we should live by.
“I HAVE GIVEN YOU A MODEL TO FOLLOW, SO THAT AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU, YOU SHOULD ALSO DO.” this stuck out to Mr because God put Jesus down on this earth to show us his humility and patience that he has for us. We should choose to follow him and love ourselves and others around us.
In todays scripture it says “There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends¨ This is saying that the most selfless and profound act of love is to sacrifice your life for another that you love.
“Whoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over so you are clean, but not all. “For he knew who would betray him; for this reason, he said, “Not all of you are clean.” In the Gospel, what stuck out to me was that Jesus was foreshadowing the betrayal the Judas will commit.
That Jesus is willing to give up his life for us he could have lived for all of eternety.
When Jesus washes the feet of the apostles, it is a truly selfless act. Throughout the Gospels and Jesus’s life, He is always giving Himself for others and doing selfless acts while He is also saying that He is the King. God wants us to be friends with Him. He doesn’t want violence or harm he just wants love. Jesus knew all of this was about to come but he still did all of it for our sins, so we could be here today. We need to pay it back by spreading the faith and following Jesus.
When Jesus washes the feet of the apostles, it is a truly selfless act. thought Jesus life he constantly gave himself to others including his life. We need to try our best to give ourselves to others just like Jesus did.
today jesus says that the readings are fulfilled the reading he read said ” the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.” Jesus saying means that he has that spirit of the Lord or that he is the Lord.
In the Gospel today it talks about how Jesus is the best role model for us. Jesus shows us right from wrong. It talks about how he washed the feet of his disciples, that just shows that Jesus cares about us and wants the best for us, He shows us what we should live by.
In today’s gospel we see that Jesus becomes the lowest and most humble when he washes the feet of his disciples. He was supposed to have his feet washed because he is the Master, yet he bends down low, the Son of God, the King of Kings, and washes the dirty feet of his servants. It takes a lot of courage to wash another’s feet.
Jesus has loved all of us. He died on the cross for us. He died on the cross for us with the weight of everyone’s sin on him. He died for all of us knowing the pain he was going to go through. He did it though he went through all of that because he loves us. All things are possible through God.
Today is Holy Thursday, one of the holiest days of the year. This is where we realize and really let it sink in that Jesus is about to die. He shows his apostles that he is equal to them by washing their feet and I think that at this point in lent and the Holy Triduum we just need to take time to reflect.
today i understood that to be a good friend is to make sacrifices and have humility. “he does not use the words of institution but rather focuses on the washing of the disciples feet. Jesus provides a model that mirrors the crucifixion.” “The lowliest Jewish slave did not wash his master’s feet.” we should want to do things for others, Like Jesus went through suffering for us, he allowed himself to be humiliated and tortured for us, also he washed feet which not even the lowliest of Jewish slaves did, Why? cause he IS humility, and he is Christ. And we cant even do one thing because we don’t want to? Or when others don’t do stuff because they are bad friends.
I got from this that everyone just needs to slow down and take a break. When you say “oh I’m too busy”, or “I can’t, I don’t have enough time”, Jesus feels hurt. He died and suffered tremendously because he loves us. To go out and to say that you don’t care and you aren’t going to pray or reflect on anything hurts him deeply.
When Jesus washes the feet of the apostles, it is a truly selfless act. throughout Jesus’ life he constantly gave himself to others including his life. We need to try our best to give ourselves to others just like Jesus did.
I think its sad to know that Jesus knew his final hours were coming and that he knew what was going to happen to him and all the pain and suffering he went through. Jesus is willing to do anything for us and that is shown when he washes their feet. Jesus knew he was going to be betrayed and still he loved and cared for every single one of them.
Washing the feat was a job done by slaves. When Jesus washed his disciples feet he is having a personal relationship with the poor. Jesus came to show us how much Jesus loved us. There is no greater love than his. Just the washing of the feet shows how mush he loves us. He would do anything for us if we believe in him and trust in him.
At the heart of Holy Thursday, Jesus teaches us to be other-centered. When I hear other-centered I think of putting yourself last. Which is true but you can’t help others if you can’t even help yourself. It is like the saying you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but you don’t see the log in your own. If you are in the state of helping others. Take the opportunity to do it.
“There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends.” This stuck out to me because, if your friend makes sacrifices for you, they are a real friend. But sometimes, we are friends with a group that really isn’t good for us. Those kinds of friends put you down, leave you out, etc whereas real friends always include you in a way, make sure you’re doing ok, and more.
“Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come
to pass from this world to the Father” Imagine if you knew you were an out to die, but you know that you need to let it happen. Jesus felt this pain none of us have had and none of us will ever have. On the Cross he felt the pain of the world. Jesus is in everyone. It is important to listen to one of the greatest phrases in the church, “love one another as I have loved you” Everyone we meet, we should treat like Jesus. Jesus suffered so we don’t have to suffer. Just as the barrabus video says, “Had to treat Jesus like Barabbas to treat Barrabus like Jesus” pray, love, and be kind. Try to treat all the barrabuses you know like Jesus.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is giving us a model of how to love. We need to be able to sacrifice our own comfort for the good of others. If God can come down, and do the job that was seen as only for servants, then how can we not do the same.
I think God is telling us that he wants us to spread the gospel and get closer to him. He died for our sins, so we need to give him something in return. We need to spread the gospel and go to mass every Sunday.
Today’s gospel was telling me that Jesus came down to us and showed us how much he loves us. We need to stop putting ourselves first and instead start putting Jesus fist. We need to serve him like he did us.
“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me;” God is always going to be with us and we know that he is always watching over us and paying attention to our actions, good and bad. He always makes time for every one of us and we should be grateful for the blessings he has given us.
Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, when it would normally be the other way around. He shows us that he is compassion, love, and pure. He could have ran away from fate, but the knew that is he didn’t endure suffering, we would suffer eternally
Jesus washed the feet of his disciples, when it would normally be the other way around. He shows us that he is compassion, love, and pure. He could have ran away from fate, but the knew that is he didn’t endure suffering, we would suffer eternally.
“There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends.” This part of the Gospel truly spoke to me today. I feel that this is telling me that love it the greatest when you give up something for your friend or give yourself to your friend. Jesus is our friend and gave us his life. We don’t need to give up our life for our friends but we can do something close. We can support and help our friends when they need it. Jesus always wants and helps us just as we should do to our closest friends and everyone around us.
God showed us His love by dying on the cross, so why do we not give Him our time? We don’t. We just want to do what we want to do whether that be playing games or anything else. Take a break. Give God your time in return for what He has done for you. This is true happiness and joy.
“There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends.” This stuck out to me because if one of your friends make a sacrifice for you that is showing true friendship and how real of a friend they are.
God became man to show us how much he loves us. He did this for us. God will go to the farthest point for us. He will do anything for us. Why…because he loves us.
What i took from the passage is that God became a Man to show us how much the Father loves us, to redeem us by giving His own life up to atone for every sin, and be a model of holiness. This is true love. There is no greater love. This is what our hearts are truly yearning for. We are fulfilled when we are selfless and give up ourselves for the other, when we learn to serve. He washes the apostles feet like if he was a servant even though he was the king of kings.
God is so vulnerable and offers and sacrifices everything for us. He became man to relate more and even washed his disciples feet. He gives himself to us to which we all throw away or don’t recognize the true beauty in it. God gives us so much and we all need to be more humble.
“I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.'” This part of the Gospel sticks out to me, because Jesus gives us His example. He calls us to follow in His footsteps and serve our neighbors. Even if we are a leader, we are really servants to those who we lead. We should lose ourselves in the service of others, and then we will become great leaders.
In today’s Gospel it shows that the Creator of everything, the Son of God washed His disciples feet. This shows true humility and that our God loves us with everything He has. He was willing to wash the persons feet who would betray Him that night. God is love and He loves us all and died for all of our sins.
I think that the gospel is trying to tell us is that, God died and came back to us. He is like a boomerang, when you throw it, it comes back. God came back to us! We should celebrate, not for a free holiday so we don’t have to go to school, but because God will be Alive again! He did so much and died in the process and now he is coming back. We should go to mass Sunday because God will be waiting for us there and we should thank him for everything he has done for us. Our savior came back from heaven, that means he didn’t forget about us. He is here and he will always be here watching us everyday and taking care of us like a father does. Jesus is real and he is right in front of us. So let him in your house for he has died for our sins because he wanted us to live a good life. So we should be there with him every step of the way like he was there for us. We only have one God so we should worship him for taking care of us through our entire life!
Today is the Last Supper and Jesus is with his disciples, when he starts washing their feet, Peter is horrified that Jesus, the king of Kings and the Father in heaven, is acting like a servant and washing his feet. But Jesus shows his great humility and his love. And in the act of washing their feet, he is putting on display his love for us, and telling us that even though we are not perfect, he will be there to wipe away our sins and clean our souls.
“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.” Today this quote stuck out to me in the Gospel. Jesus gave us an example of his love and kindness to follow. If we want to live in eternity with him we must follow that example. We need to do what he has shown us to do and help other people do it as well.
the scripture is saying how much Jesus loved us that He died on the cross for us. We are called to Jesus and to follow Him, but to do that we need to sacrifice and be selfless.
“I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.” Jesus has given us the perfect example of what we need to do, and how we should act to get to heaven. Since He came into the world he has shown us the way and will of God’s plan for our life. We look up to so many people we admire in the world. We want all the best role models so we can learn from them and be like them. Jesus is our ultimate role model.
Today Jesus washes the feet of the disciples, he shows selflessness, even when he is a king. Jesus is above everybody but he still washes the feet of sinners, why? Because God is good, he didn’t bring Jesus down and make him a king like he should have been. God made him the poorest, a slave. When Jesus washes the feet of the disciples he is portraying himself dying on the cross for our sins, as he washes the feet he is washing away our sins, cleaning our souls. Tonight we need to think about Jesus washing our feet and honor that up to him. And in these next days we need to try to connect with Jesus as he suffered these next few days years ago.
What stuck out to me is Before the feast of Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. Jesus knew that it was coming up quick. Jesus knows because he is the Son of God the one who loves us. Jesus washed their feet because he truly cares about them and loves them. Jesus didn’t want them to wash his feet. Jesus is humble and he has shown it to all of us.
“Fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God.”
I just like this line a lot. I’m not really sure why, maybe it’s the way it sounds when you read it, it’s rather poetic to me. But I also love the fact that Jesus was just fully aware of the fact that he was from God and was returning to him. I mean he had us in mind the entire time during his passion but before he began his agony in the garden and everything on the way to Calvary, he was thinking about God. He was thinking, not about the pain, not about death, but that he was returning to God. To me that says, that death isn’t something we should fear. I, quite honestly, have never been afraid of death. I don’t know if it’s because I just can’t wrap my head around what death really is or if it’s because I simply have no fear but what Jesus says is just a reminder that death isn’t a bad thing. When we die, it’s actually us returning home to our loving father, like the prodigal son. We were sent to earth and when we die, we return and God receives us with open arms.
In this Gospel, God gives us a powerful message before He is crucified. He tells us to love one another as he has loved us. A powerful and moving message that will unite us in the faith and grace of the LORD!
Something that stuck out to me was that God doesn’t want to change u he wants to transform you into a better person. this stuck out to me because God created you to be you. Not anyone else.
If he gives his life as an offering for sin,
he shall see his descendants in a long life,
and the will of the LORD shall be accomplished through him.
Jesus is speaking to me thought this he is saying to me that I must believe in him
“I HAVE GIVEN YOU A MODEL TO FOLLOW, SO THAT AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU, YOU SHOULD ALSO DO.” JN 13:1-15
This really stuck out to me because it tells us how much of a role model Jesus was meant to be. We should follow in his footsteps. Loving God, praising Him, and being a role model for the generations to come. In this Gospel I believe Jesus is trying to tell us about the first Mass. It’s weird how John’s Gospel of all other’s doesn’t have institution of the Eucharist, but it focuses more on Jesus washing His disciples feet.
Jesus washes the disciples feet because its a reflection of the crucifixion. Jesus loves us so much and wants us to spend more time with Him.
Something that stuck out to me in today’s gospel was when Jesus said “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” This stuck out to me because we are learning about the Passion and this sentence is kind of the beginning of it.
“The lowliest Jewish slave did not wash his master’s feet.” This symbolizes the crucifixion. Some scripture scholar’s believe the washing of the feet symbolizes baptism. The teaching Christ is handing on to us is to be selfless.