{"id":1335,"date":"2014-04-18T07:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2014-04-18T07:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T11:25:26","slug":"homily-holy-thursday-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/homily-holy-thursday-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Homily – Holy Thursday 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy Thursday, Year A<\/a>
\nExodus 12:1-8, 11-14
\n1 Corinthians 11:23-26
\nJohn 13:1-5
\nApril 17, 2014<\/p>\n

As we began Mass tonight, the season of Lent came to a close and the event of Easter is upon us.\u00a0 Tonight begins the Easter Triduum.<\/p>\n

Triduum is Latin for three days.\u00a0 However, while we celebrate these events over three days, we must not see these happenings as three separate events.\u00a0 The Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection can only be properly understood as one event.<\/i><\/p>\n

With that in mind, tomorrow we will celebrate the Crucifixion and then the Resurrection for Easter, but tonight is the Last Supper.<\/p>\n

It was no ordinary meal that Jesus celebrated that night.\u00a0 It was the Passover, the most important time of the year for the Jewish people.<\/p>\n

At that meal, Jesus gives<\/i> us the Eucharist.\u00a0 I want to emphasize gift because it truly is just that, a gift.\u00a0 He takes the bread and wine that were already part of the Passover meal and turns it into his Body and Blood.<\/p>\n

Thus, we become a Eucharistic people.\u00a0 The Eucharist was not meant to be celebrated just once.\u00a0 Paul writes of how Jesus commands us to do this is remembrance of me.<\/i>\u00a0 Just as the Passover was declared a memorial feast<\/i> and a perpetual institution<\/i>, so too has the Eucharist come to be at Jesus\u2019 command.<\/p>\n

What does it mean to be a Eucharistic people?<\/p>\n

Obviously, it begins with coming here to celebrate the Mass and to receive the Body and Blood of Jesus in the form of bread and wine but it does not end there.<\/p>\n

At Mass we hear God\u2019s word and receive the Eucharist and that is paramount to our faith but our faith is not simply to be a passive faith.\u00a0 We must do something with the faith we had received.<\/p>\n

We need to put our faith into action.\u00a0 We need to take what God has given us and put it into action as people of service.<\/p>\n

We need to serve others\u2026<\/p>\n

This is what Jesus shows us when he washes the feet of his disciples.\u00a0 To understand the significance of Jesus washing the feet of disciples we need to look at the customs of the time.\u00a0 When a person arrived at your house, their feet would be dusty from walking on \u2018dusty\u2019 roads.\u00a0 It was polite and custom to offer a washing of the feet but it was not role of the host to do this.\u00a0 It would have been the slaves that did it.<\/p>\n

So Peter would have been shocked to see Jesus get down to wash his feet.\u00a0 Jesus was the messiah and should never be the one washing the feet of others.\u00a0 But Peter accepts Jesus\u2019 words that it must be so.<\/p>\n

In just a moment we will commemorate Jesus\u2019 washing of the disciples as I wash the feet of twelve people representing the various demographics of our parish.\u00a0 It is not a show of who gets to be up front.<\/p>\n

I have been in the past both the one having my feet washed and the one doing the washing.\u00a0 On either side it can be a humbling experience.\u00a0 For the ones having their feet washed, it can be a humbling experience letting someone else do a task we normally do for ourselves.<\/p>\n

As the one doing the foot washing, it\u2019s humbling to me, to bow down before the people I serve but it is a healthy reminder that God did not send me here to have others wait on me but to serve all of you.<\/p>\n

How do you serve others and how do you let others serve you?<\/p>\n

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Holy Thursday, Year A Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-5 April 17, 2014 As we began Mass tonight, the season of Lent came to a close and the event of Easter is upon us.\u00a0 Tonight begins the Easter Triduum. Triduum is Latin for three days.\u00a0 However, while we celebrate these events over three …<\/p>\n

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