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Regarding M's description of what the Pope has authorised as a "liturgical abuse", he or she should remember that all those whose feet Jesus washed were Jews. Since the Church has sanctioned the washing of Gentile feet for centuries, what makes the Pope's most recent development of Christian tradition any more of an abuse than previous practice?

We have been including women in the Holy Thursday foot-washing for many years in many dioceses in the USA. When I became rector of our Cathedral in Covington, KY in 1994 it was an already established tradition.

Well done ,holy father, you set an example , some of your bishops were too abtuse to follow suit. Now you have decreed it. Well done ! You have to do it for nearly every branch of your curia ! God bless you . We pray for your safety! Ab.murphy pakiam

I see that some automatic processing has distorted Professor Thomas O'Loughlin's name in my earlier posting referring to recent articles of his on foot washing. My apologies for any confusion.

A view on the real significance of Our Lord's washing of the disciples' feet and how far it can be part of the Holy Week liturgy
is given in several recent articles by Professor Thomas O'laughlin, of Nottingham University.

[1] ‘The Washing of Feet: the Interplay of Praxis and Theology’. Anaphora 7/1(2013)37-46

[2] ‘Celebrating the New Commandment: Foot-washing and Our Theology of Liturgy’. Scripture in Church 43 [169] (2013)

[3] ‘From a Damp Floor to a New Vision of Church: Footwashing as a Challenge to Liturgy and
Discipleship’. Worship 88(2014)137-150

These and many other articles by Professor O'laughlin are readily available on the Academia.edu website: see
https://nottingham.academia.edu/ThomasOLoughlin/Papers

Fortunately, it is not mandatory and orthodox priests and parishes can continue to observe the practice as instituted by Our Lord. As with altar girls, these legitimised liturgical abuses are not compulsory and whilst modernist parishes allowed them whether they were legal or not, so orthodox parishes will not allow them even if they are now legal.