Maundy Thursday Service
Just before Jesus was arrested, he gathered his disciples, shared a meal, washed their feet, and gave them a new commandment (mandatum), to love one another.
Maundy Thursday: April 2, 7 pm, Sanctuary
“Flow” by Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell
Inspired by John 13:1-35
The last time I washed another person’s feet was ten years ago while interning at First United
Methodist Church of Miami. For more than thirty years, First Church has hosted the Breakfast Club—a ministry of shared meals, fellowship, and worship with the unhoused community in downtown Miami. One of its most meaningful traditions is the Breakfast Club’s annual foot washing event, a practice that has become a radical act of faith and service. It has drawn local attention, not for its novelty but for its reciprocity—modeling a kind of fellowship that resists the tendency to “other” those who express need.
Knowing what would come next, I often wondered what it must have been like for the disciples to watch Jesus wash Judas’s feet. None of us is too great or too small to receive grace. Even the water—swirling with dust and surrender—becomes a witness to transformation.
To wash one another’s feet—even those whom society deems “untouchable”—is an act of profound grace. There is deep vulnerability and intimacy in holding someone’s feet in your hands, and in allowing another to hold yours. The practice of foot washing remains, for me, one of the most meaningful expressions of Christian faith I have ever participated in. —Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell
What do the red lines in the image represent to you? How do you feel seeing the water flow over them?
Watch the Maundy Thursday service from 2025.