CALENDARIUM ROMANUM FORMA ORDINARIA

During a meal Jesus rose from table and set aside his outer garments, assuming the appearance of a slave, as these words show: “He took a towel and tied it around his waist” so as not to be completely naked and to use his own towel to wipe his disciples’ feet (Jn 13,2-5). See from this how greatly the greatness and glory of the Word made flesh humbles itself! He “poured water into a basin” to wash his disciples’ feet. “Abraham looked up and saw men standing before him. He ran from the entrance of his tent to greet them; and bowing to the ground, he said: ‘Sir, if I may ask this favor, please do not go on past your servant’” (Gn 18,2-3). However, Abraham did not himself fetch water, nor did he announce that he himself was going to wash the strangers’ feet on their coming to him, but he said: “Let some water be brought that your feet may be washed.” In the same way, neither did Joseph bring water to wash the feet of his eleven brothers himself, but it was his steward who “brought them water to wash their feet” (Gn 43,24). But he who declared: “I have come not to be served but to serve” (Mt 20,28) and very rightly said: “Learn from me for I am meek and humble of heart” (Mt 11,29), himself poured water into the basin. He knew there was no one else but he who could wash the disciples’ feet if that purification was to enable them to have a part with him. The water, I think, was a word able to wash the disciples’ feet when they came to the basin Jesus had put there for them.
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My brethren, consider the great mystery of the harmony and the difference of the two Laws and two peoples. The people of old celebrated Passover, not in the full light of day but in the shadow of that which was to come (Col 2,17), and fifty days after the Passover celebration… God gave it the Law written by his own hand on Mount Sinai… God came down on Mount Sinai in the midst of the fire, striking with terror the people who were standing far off, and with his finger he wrote the Law on stone, not in the heart (Ex 31,18). On the other hand, when the Holy Spirit came down to earth, the disciples were all assembled together in the same place and, instead of terrifying them from the height of the mountain, he entered the house where they had gathered (Acts 2,1f.). From the heights of heaven came an enormous noise like that of a strong wind approaching, but this noise did not frighten anybody. You have heard the sound, see the fire, too. For on the mountain these two phenomena are to be distinguished: the noise and the fire. On Mount Sinai the fire was surrounded by smoke, but here, to the contrary, it has a shining clarity: “There appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted.” Was this a fire that stirred up fear? Not at all: “they came to rest on each one of them”… Listen to this tongue speaking and understand that it is the Spirit that writes not on stone but in the heart. Therefore the “Law of the Spirit of life”, written in the heart and not on stone, this Law of the Spirit of life which is in Jesus Christ, in whom the Passover has been celebrated in all truth (1Cor 5,7), “has set you free from the Law of sin and death” (Rm 8,2).
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