PPF: The Most Amazing Love!

 Yesterday was Holy Thursday

and I reflected on this verse:

"Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me." 

John 13:8
After Jesus eats His last meal with His disciples, 

He prepares to wash their feet. 

Of course none of them were prepared for that!
At the evening mass for Holy Thursday, 

the priest washes the feet of some church goers. 

I am sure those chosen men wash their feet well! 

But the disciples did not have time to prepare. 

So of course, Peter and no doubt the others said,

 "NO WAY!" 

He was probably too ashamed to let Jesus hold 

his grimy, calloused feet with its long dirty toenails! 

But Jesus said, " I have to wash your feet, 

or you won't get your inheritance, 

you can't have a part of My Kingdom. 

You won't be my brother." 

And so Peter typically goes overboard and pleads, 

"Wash my hands and head as well!"
Today, how can we allow Jesus to wash us, 

cleanse us? 

 By going to confession, 

by asking forgiveness, 

by allowing Him into the deepest recesses of our hearts, 

minds and lives, asking Him to show us 

what we need to change, to give up, to surrender.

 

Peter was probably too ashamed to let Jesus hold 

his grimy, calloused feet with its long dirty toenails! 

But Jesus said, " I have to wash your feet, 

or you won't get your inheritance, 

you can't have a part of My Kingdom. 

You won't be my brother." 

And so Peter typically goes overboard and pleads, 

"Wash my hands and head as well!"
Today, how can we allow Jesus to wash us, 

cleanse us? 

 By going to confession, 

by asking forgiveness, 

by allowing Him into the deepest recesses of our hearts, 

minds and lives, asking Him to show us 

what we need to change, to give up, to surrender.

 Today is Good Friday,

and my sister and I attended a Senakulo

in our Parish Church.

It is a Passion play, a drama about

Jesus' suffering up to His crucifixion.

in our Parish Church.

 We were able to follow along in the streets 

like the crowd that followed Jesus 

on the way to Golgotha.

And just like that time,

some of the crowd laughed,

and some wer serious,

and some were praying.

"It was our infirmities that He bore,

our sufferings that He endured...

by His stripes we were healed."

Isaiah 53:4

The story of Jesus' crucifixion

is the very heart of the heart of the Gospel.

In the Garden of Eden, 

God pronounced man guilty of sin,

and man was driven out of the garden.

In the crucifixion, it is man

rejecting God from their city,

and giving Him a death sentence!

And the amazing thing is God allows it!

Why?

Because of the most improbable love of all,

the craziest, most amazing love!

"For God so loved the world

that He gave His one and only Son

that whoever believes in Him

will not perish but have eternal life."

John 3:16

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