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Hey there, Sprods. Today is Tuesday, April 16th, 2019. We are in Holy Week, so it is Holy Tuesday of Holy Week. And today is a feast of one of my favorite saints, St. Bernadette, who we know lived in Lords and had Our Lady of Lords appear to her,

where there is now a miraculous spring where thousands upon thousands of people journey every

year to bathe in the healing waters and miracles occur every day. So remember, say a little prayer for the intercession of St. Bernadette and our Lady of Lords today.

This week on the Catholic Sprout's podcast, we are talking about Holy Week.

We talked yesterday about Palm Sunday or Passion Sunday.

Today, we are going to look further into the week to the events that

will occur at the Holy Thursday service, which will happen on Thursday. So this service, this

liturgy is beautiful and packed with so much. We can never talk about it all in one day. So we are going to

talk about the first remarkable piece today. And that is the washing of feet. So as you might

remember, Holy Thursday service is very different from normal masses. There is so much more that

happens, and we are going to talk about the first cool thing, which is washing a feet. Now,

you might know that we wash feet during the Holy Thursday service, because this is what Jesus did at the last supper.

What happened is that Jesus had gathered his followers together to celebrate the very important

Jewish feast of the Passover. But before they sat down to eat, Jesus wrapped a cloth around his waist and he got a basin of water and he went from person to person and washed their feet.

Now, this symbolizes a lot, but before we get to the symbolism, let's talk about what the feet of people were like during

the time of Jesus. So when Jesus was alive, most people, whether they were very rich or very poor,

wore sandals. So no matter what type of shoe they had on, their feet were usually always dirty.

Now, not only were their streets unpaved, meaning they were always walking on dirt, but they also used their streets as a sewer. So you can

imagine there wasn't indoor plumbing. They didn't, you know, pick up their animal waste and put it somewhere else.

But the streets were very, very dirty and stinky.

So even if you left the house in the morning perfectly clean, once you walked to wherever you were going, your feet were filthy. At the time,

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