Love to the End

by | Apr 20, 2011 | Holy Week, love, relinquishment, sermon 2011

Protestants say of sacraments that there are not the Catholic seven, but rather only two, because 500 years ago, Luther and Calvin found only two commandments on Jesus’ to-do list: baptize, and celebrate a supper “remembering me.” Yet they dismissed from their short list a third command: “You also ought to wash one another’s feet, for I have set you an example, that you do even as I have done unto you.” . . . This is a sacrament of subversion–and John’s gospel tells of no other . . .