Foot washing plays an important role in quite a few Biblical passages. Local columnist Art Marmorstein takes a look at what it meant. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.

When we look at Jesus washing feet and substitute different contentious characters in the scene, we remove the focus on intimacy in favor of a pop-art style shock– the washing of the feet as an ...

Maundy Thursday is also associated with foot-washing. Jesus washed the feet of the disciples, an act described in the Gospel of John, chapter 13, as Jesus teaching them to be servants.

The Rev. Jack Haberer was not always comfortable with the Maundy Thursday foot-washing ritual. "To be honest, I avoided it as long as I could until I became a minister and it was already on the ...

The ancient rite of foot washing, which recalls Jesus' actions at the Last Supper, was both a humbling and spiritual experience for the men. Ministers and priests repeated the act at churches ...

The foot-washing ritual, however, was not even a part of the Holy Thursday Mass until the late 1950s when Pope Pius XII revised the Holy Week liturgies. Previously, ...