Prayers and Reflections for
The Easter Triduum
We enter the Three Days in a peculiar way: washing feet, letting our feet be washed. This is an ancient meditation on what we do:
Jesus, come, my feet are dirty. You have become a servant for my sake, so fill your basin with water; come, wash my feet. I know that I am bold in saying this, but your own words have made me fearful: "If I do not wash your feet, you will have no companionship with me."
But what am I saying: "Wash my feet"? Peter could say these words, for all that needed washing were his feet. For the rest, he was completely clean. I must be made clean with that other washing of which you said: "I have a baptism with which I must be baptized."
Origen
From John 13:4, 5, 15
The Lord Jesus, when he had eaten with his disciples, poured water into a basin
and began to wash their feet, saying: This example I leave you.
From John 13:14
If I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, then surely you must wash one another’s feet.
From John 13:34
I give you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you, says the Lord.
Good Friday
Today and tomorrow the Church takes on the Paschal Fast, the Easter Fast. This is afast not of penance but of anticipation. We fast also from work and 
from all the usual distractions. Our minds and hearts grow hungry for God’s Word. Our lives are filled with the mystery of Jesus’ death and Resurrection and with how we ourselves take on that dying and rising, little by little becoming the image of Christ in this world. On Friday afternoon, the parish community gathers to read the Passion, to pray, and to venerate the Holy Cross. These are prayers and songs of Good Friday.
Lord, Send Your Abundant Blessing
Lord, send your abundant blessing upon your people
who devoutly recall the death of your Son
in the sure hope of the Resurrection.
Grant us pardon; bring us comfort.
May our faith grow stronger
and our eternal salvation be assured.
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