After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus. Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified. Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud came a voice, This is my beloved Son. Listen to him. Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them. -The 4th Luminous Mystery

The Washing of the Feet

P
ope Benedict XVI.
If we listen attentively to the Gospel of Holy Thursday, we can discern two different dimensions in the event of the washing of the feet.
The cleansing that Jesus offers his disciples is first and foremost simply his action—the gift of purity, of the "capacity for God" that is offered to them.

But the gift then becomes a model for the duty to do the same for one another.

The Fathers of the Chruch described these two aspects of the washing of the feet with the words sacramentum and exemplum.
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