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.

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.

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 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, ...