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Pope Francis\u2019s witness and change to the rubrics of foot washing on Holy Thursday has been having an effect in India. In an opinion essay in the news outlet Scroll.in, women\u2019s rights lawyer Flavia Agnes writes:<\/p>\n

Following the footsteps of their supreme religious leader, last year a few dioceses and parishes in India introduced this single-most inclusive liturgical practice and included the poor, the marginalised and women \u2013 Catholics and others, in the traditional feet-washing ceremony.<\/p>\n

Even bishops of Roman Catholic churches in\u00a0Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi<\/a>\u00a0washed the feet of women for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Resistance to the practice however has also emerged among some Catholic clergy and clergy of other Christian churches.<\/p>\n

It is against this background that the celebration of the ritual of washing of the feet organised by a group, Women\u2019s Lives Matter, gains significance. In keeping with the new directions which Pope Francis has set, the group celebrated the feet washing ceremony with the inmates of Swanthanam Centre for battered Women and children at Kottayam in Kerala on\u00a0April 11<\/a>, two days prior to the day marked for the celebrations.<\/p>\n

The ceremony on April 11, said Kochurani Abraham of the Women\u2019s Life Matter, was inspired by the initiative of the Pope. \u201cThe ritual was a means of taking the message of forgiveness, acceptance and mutual care outside the boundaries of the church\u2019s ritual worship,\u201d Abraham told the\u00a0Hindu<\/a><\/em>. The celebration, she hoped, would help the ecclesiastical leadership to revisit their earlier decision . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can read the whole story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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