Last night I said that the addresses for then and now would be about hands and feet. Last night we thought about hands Jesus’ hands broke bread and passed the cup.
Jesus hands washed the disciples’ feet. St Paul handed on to us what he himself had received, the Eucharist in which we recreate that last night and receive Christ into our hands.
And then comes today, Good Friday. On this day we turn our attention to feet, to journeys, to the cross, on those who fled the scene and those who stayed.
In the three and a bit years of Jesus’ life we know something about he spent a lot of time on his feet. He lived the life of an itinerant preacher, walking from town to town. There were no cars or buses. Riding on a donkey was about as luxurious as life got, so he spent an awful lot of time on his feet.