” “"Today the Lord said Benedict XVI warns us against that self-sufficiency that puts a limit to His boundless love. He invites us to imitate His humbleness, to place our trust in it, to let ourselves be ‘infected’ by it. He invites us no matter how lost we feel to go back home and let His purifying goodness cheer us up and let us enter into the communion of His table, with God Himself”. Then, the Holy Father explained the meaning of the washing of the feet: “Every act of goodness for others especially for the suffering and for those who are debased is a feet-washing service. The Lord calls us to this: coming down, learning the humbleness and the courage of goodness and also the willingness to accept refusal, and still trust goodness and persevere in it”. The deepest dimension to all this, he added, is that "washing each other’s feet means, above all forgiving each other tirelessly, always starting all over again together, no matter how pointless it might seem. It means cleansing each other, tolerating each other and accepting to be tolerated”.” “
