So when he had washed their feet he took up his clothes and reclined at the table again, he said to them: ‘Do you know what I have done for you? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord’, and you say rightly for I am. So, if I – Lord and Teacher – wash your feet, you too should wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example so that just as I did for you, you do as well. 

Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than their master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent them.

If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.