O Jesus, we praise you and thank you,

because you laid aside your power

and took upon yourself the form of a servant.

You allowed a sinner to wash your feet with her tears.

For God chose what is low and despised in the world to bring to nothing things that are.

Therefore, with the lowly and despised

and with all our fellow sinners who have loved and served you

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from that time till now, we praise you, Lord Jesus.

Holy Parent, blessed is our brother Jesus, who on that night took a towel and poured water, and washed his disciples’ feet, saying to them:

“If I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”

Come now, mighty Spirit of God, wash us and make us one body in Christ.

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As we are bound together in this act of love,

we may no longer be in bondage to sin of this world,

but may know your peace such as the world cannot give. Amen.

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