In the same style to Jesus’ washing the ft of his 12 apostles, clergymen throughout the nation washed the ft of devotees as a part of the custom of Maundy Thursday. In Manila, Fr. Flavie Villanueva washed the ft of individuals whose family members died in extrajudicial killings.
Villanueva carried out the ceremony on the St. Arnold Janssen Kalinga Foundation in Tayuman, Manila. As founding father of a corporation counseling victims of the nation’s drug warfare, it’s a follow he has achieved earlier than.
Fr. Flavie instructed listeners that Christ eliminated his outer clothes earlier than he washed the apostles’ ft, indicating the stripping of his authority and displaying the way to serve and sympathize with their friends.
“Bago niya hugasan, tinanggal niya ang panlabas na kasuotan na sumasagisag sa otoridad at ito’y gusto niyang ipagdiinan na hindi otoridad dapat ang matimbang sa panahon ngayon, bagkus pag-ibig,” mentioned Fr. Flavie.
(Before he washed the ft, he eliminated the outerwear that symbolized his authority, as a result of he wished to emphasise that love, not authority, is what is actually essential.)
He added that he selected to scrub the ft of the unlucky and the relations of EJK victims as a result of he wished to indicate that they had been essential within the eyes of God.
“Kung babalik-tanawin natin ang mga hinugasan ng paa ni Hesus, sila yung mga tinuring na makasalanan, mga isinasantabi, mga nasa laylayan noong panahon ni Hesus. At gayundin naman sa panahon ngayon: mga homeless, mga taong nasa laylayan, mga pinagkaitan ng kalinga at katarungan. So minarapat natin, halina mahalaga kayo sa mata ng Diyos,” He said.
(If we look back at the people whose feet Jesus washed, they were the sinful, the outcasts, those who lived on the edges of society. And that’s similar to today: the homeless, those on the fringes, those who were deprived of care and justice. So we emphasize that they are important in the eyes of God.)
Cristina, one of the relatives of an EJK victim, expressed her gratitude for the ceremony.
“Bilang isa sa natutulungan ng paghilom, sobrang pasalamat kay Fr. Flavie na binuo niya kami rito, pinagsama-sama niya kami sa program paghilom para magkaisa, magkaroon ulit ng tinatawag na pamilya.” Cristina mentioned.
(As one of many people who find themselves being helped to heal, I need to lengthen my sincerest gratitude to Fr. Flavie for gathering us right here. He gathered us collectively for this system paghilom to be united and have one thing to name a household once more.) — with Jiselle Anne C. Casucian/BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
