The Bergoglio foot washing show - only a month to go!

It struck me that today is exactly 4 weeks until Holy Thursday, the day in which Christians celebrate the founding of the priesthood by Jesus Christ through the washing of the feet.

Not to be outdone, and in case he might be left out of the limelight for a day out of respect for the Church's most solemn celebrations, our good friend Pope Bergoglio has chosen this as the time of the year to showcase the wondrous joy of liturgical abuse and false humility in all its Vatican-II-ness. Having washed the feet of non-Christians during his first commemmoration of the day as Pope - gravely abusing the rubrics - he then went on to I think increase the number of non-Christians the second time out (or so I believe), this time taking time to kiss their feet.

The novelty at the time had kind of worn off, given that we had become accustomed to his many offences towards the faith and ceremonies. Most people had come to expect it, and I think everybody expected him to do it again anyway, so we mostly just shrugged our shoulders. Of course, the Pope could have changed liturgical law - which although gravely insulting towards the faith would have at least made his acts licit - but "petty rules" are just for "small-minded" people, aren't they? The big fish don't need them, and even if the little fish break them, hey, who are we to judge?

As many have noted, a lot of Catholics have begun to ignore his Bergoglioness, Pope Francis.  Knowing the man as well as I do - and just as importantly, knowing the type- the always-look-at-me hubris of the Pope will not allow him to go quietly into irrelevance, and what better occasion to burst into the headlines than on Maundy Thursday? It's the perfect occasion to get some kudos from the anti-Christian press for his alleged humility, and allow his many modernist friends to acclaim that he must be the most humble man to walk the Earth since at least the word "humility" was invented.

However, having washed the feet of a Muslim woman, and kissed feet (I don't know if he kissed hers) on Maundy Thursday, his foot-fetish displays will hardly grab many headlines. So I am left wondering just what of diabolical scheme he will conjure up this year to undermine not only the faith but liturgical law, Sacred Tradition, sacred gestures and even the papacy itself this year.

I would just like it pointed out - lest anybody think that I have anything against washing feet - that I dutifully have mine washed at least twice a day, even (perhaps especially) on Thursdays! On top of that, I support any and all feet-washing initiatives: After all, cleanliness is next to Godliness, or so they say. Now with that disclaimer out of the way...

The problem, of course, is that there are 365 days in a regular year. A priest - or pope - is welcome to wash all the feet he wants to his heart's delight on any 364 of these. In fact, for about 23 out of 24 hours on the 365th day of Maundy Thursday, he is allowed to do it. In fact, there is only 1 hour during the year in which the washing of feet is reserved for the holy liturgy (though not mandated). What he is not allowed to do is turn that very hour in which Christians commemmorate the institution of the priesthood - through among other things the washing of the feet before the disciples are sent off to proclaim the Gospel - into a foot-fetishing bonanza as that is a very direct liturgical abuse. Any priest doing that we know cannot be doing it out of humility but out of hubristical arrogance and disregard for the most venerable rituals of the Faith.

Now with that bit of background out of the way, I ask again, what will Pope Francis do to shock and awe this year? Will he decide to wash the entire body, as our first Pope St. Peter himself asked our blessed LORD to do upon hearing that he would not be welcome unless he allowed his feet to be washed? Will he kiss his way all up to the knee this time? Will he bring out his favourite pet - or other animal - and wash its feet, perhaps in anticiplation of his encyclical on climate change, and to remind us that Mother Nature deserves first dibs on the wash, or some other nonsense? Maybe he will wash his small Kia, or Ford Focus, or gold-plated silver ring, or perhaps his black shoes, no doubt making some far-fetched allusion to a Biblical passage which will be instantly identifiable as complete and utter nonsense by any faithful Christian with a functiong brain past the age of 5 years?

The world is truly at his feet, and notoriety through that of others!

What we know by now is that to Pope Francis the Bergoglian, nothing is holy, and nothing is too sacred to desecrate, as he has shown by calumniating both our Blessed LORD and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that's when he's not occupied with twisting their words to mean the exact opposite of their literal meaning - or hiring his thugs to do it - or persecuting the few Christian orders with vacations to the priesthood. In fact, judging by his friends and enemies lists, we can see that the holier one is, the more one is rejected by the man. In fact, if the man likes you, chances are you need to start seriously consider whether you're on the right path.

Holy Thursday is indeed a holy day. What will Pope Bergoglio come up with this time to top up his profanity?

The answer is but 4 weeks away, and it will be coming to a screen near you.