The Liturgy of Holy Thursday is the most demanding of the Easter cycle. Jesus leaves us a mandate that takes on its full meaning in the context of the Last Supper where Jesus proclaimed it. The Gospel tells us that Jesus, on that crucial day of his life, “having loved his own, loved them to the end”; and then He narrates the washing of the feet as a sign of purification, but, above all, as a sign of love and humble service. At the end Jesus says to his followers: “Do you understand what I have done to you”? Do you understand how much I have loved you and how far my willingness to serve has gone? For if I have done this with you, you must also go so far as to wash one another’s feet; This is what I command you, that you love one another as I have loved you. By this they will know that you are my disciples. Silence may be the best answer to your questions…