Feet
For as long as anyone could remember the ceremonial foot washing had taken place at the grand Basilica of St. John Lateran as part of the Holy Thursday Mass. The pope would choose twelve priests, and in remembrance of Jesus' act of service to his disciples, wash the priests' feet.
But in 2013, just ten days after his election, Pope Francis stunned the world and broke with tradition by travelling to a juvenile detention centre outside Rome where he washed and kissed the feet of twelve prisoners, including two women and two Muslims.
Eleven refugees later participated in the ritual, including three Eritrean Coptic Christian migrants, four Catholics from Nigeria, three Muslims from Mali, Syria and Pakistan, and a Hindu man from India.
Wow.
How do we think of others?
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