A meditation preached by Fr. Eric Nicolai on May 18, 2025, at Lyncroft Center in Toronto.

The Lord took care to leave a deep impression on the disciples, the apostles, when he gave them the mandatum novum. (John 13)

It was like a special legacy that he wanted to leave behind. They remembered the words, his tone, but they especially remembered his gestures of tenderness and the warm tone of his voice when he knelt in front of them and washed their feet.

They never forgot that night. It stayed imprinted on their brain.