Tuesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time
“We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.”
God is among us, in Jesus his son, as a servant. Furthermore, we can be certain that Jesus desires to be the servant of our people, our nation. He came to save us all. He has invited you and me to be servants with Him. We must decide whether we are going to welcome this invitation and allow ourselves to be raised up to the depth and height of this servanthood.
It’s all beautifully expressed in John 13:
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and wipe them with the towel that was tied around him.
Reflection by Fr. Xavier Nacke, OSB
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