Father Chris Looby

  Tonight we enter the upper room. On the night before He died, Jesus gathers with His disciples for a meal. They expect something familiar—a Passover meal, prayers, tradition. Instead, Jesus does something unexpected. He gets up from the table… takes off His outer garment… kneels down… and begins to wash their feet. This is not just a kind gesture. It is shocking. The Teacher becomes the servant. The Master takes the place of the lowest slave. And then He says: “I have given you a model to follow.” That action—more than anything else—explains everything that happens this night. Because on this same night, Jesus also gives us the Eucharist. He takes bread, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to them, saying: “This is my Body, given up for you.” The hands that wash feet… are the same hands that break the bread. The love that kneels before the disciples… is the same love that gives itself in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is not just something we receive. It is the very life of Christ—...