Prayer Prompt before reading JN 13:1-15: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray well, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and God the Son 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. This is the call of young men who want to serve God in the priesthood. “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 our 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? If it is all about another long weekend to spend more time on yourself, what are your priorities? 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 CHANGE! We hate change and we are afraid. Ask God for His grace, it transforms what sin has damaged.
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
“’There is no greater love than to lay one’s life down for one’s friends.’ JN 15:13″ This stood out to me because in my opinion there is greater love by laying down your life for your enemies.
Jesus loved his own “to the end”. This does not just mean until his death, but to the fullest extent. Even while aware that he held “everything in his power” and that Judas was about to betray him, Jesus chose to use that power not to dominate, but to serve.
It was telling me to get out of my comfort zone and try doing things I could not do before!
In the Gospel today, Jesus washes the feet of His disciples. He does this to show that even though he won’t be with us on Earth, he is with us in spirit. We need to let Jesus take over, and give our life to him. If we don’t have him in our hearts, we won’t know what to live for. If we have him, we will have a better relationship with him.
Jesus was so stressed and worried during the last supper and especially the agony in the garden, but He had trust in God that He would get through. This is how we must be; willing to follow God’s will and to not look back. So ask God today to give you the faith needed to get through
We are the lowest of the low but Jesus the Son of God will wash our feet because of His love. His love is so great for us that He died on the cross just for us.
This is saying that even if we do good things ourselves we cannot enter heaven unless we are washed by God’s grace.
“I HAVE GIVEN YOU A MODEL TO FOLLOW, SO THAT AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU, YOU SHOULD ALSO DO.” JN 13:1-15. Something that stood out to me about this is that Jesus is saying that he has given us a model to follow and that we should spread the word of God just like Jesus did when he was on earth.
a reliship is more important that a couple videos. we should turn to humans not code. the chance you to be alive is almost 0 but God does it any way. he put us on this earth to do something not just play videogames or watch videos he need us to do something with are lives. Jesus didn’t die for no reason, he didn’t suffer for that reason. He loves us all.
I think this scripture is just here to remind us how much God loves us. From creating us and everything we love too sending his son down and having him sacrifice himself too lift the burden of our sin off of us. We need to recognize more how much God love us, what we really need to think about is how much we love him. When we sin he doesnt grow farther from us, we grow farther from him.
“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.”
This part stuck out to me the most, because it talks about how we should follow Gods example, to help each other seek the Lord. Jesus wanted Judas to find the Lord, so he washed their feet, which would clean there soul. Jesus wants all of our souls to be clean, so we can go straight to him
In today’s Gospel Jesus is washing the feet of the disciples. Most protested but Jesus told them “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.” He is saying that whoever has bathed (reconciliation) will be clean all over but some are not clean because they have not reconciled.
“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.” This verse really stuck out to me because it is saying that he is setting an example for how we should treat each other and spread the word of God to everyone as He did. We can use this verse everyday of our lives by remembering to treat others how God would want us to and follow His example.
¨The hardest part, you have to CHANGE!¨ This stood out to me because we need to change our ways for God. We cant rely on confessions for our lives and expect that to get us into heaven. We cant make sacrifices that don’t matter
Jesus came to earth as a humble being not a righteous king. As he says in today’s gospel that he is our example and role model. Whatever we do unto others is what we are doing to him. So Jesus says to wash others feet just as he washed ours. Sometimes we don’t know what he is doing in our life but but we need to fully and completely trust in him.