And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written,n “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring [the] good news!”* – Romans 10:15
* [10:15] How beautiful are the feet of those who bring [the] good news: in Semitic fashion, the parts of the body that bring the messenger with welcome news are praised; cf. Lk 11:27.
How beautiful upon the mountains* are the feet of the one bringing good news, Announcing peace, bearing good news, announcing salvation, saying to Zion, “Your God is King!” -Isaiah 52:7
The Scripture verse “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news!” jumped out at me today.
I was immediately taken to the scene of the Lord’s Last Supper where Jesus washes the feet of the disciples. Jesus washes the Apostles’ feet and readies them for their evangelization journey.
The Apostles are about to be sent to preach the Good News to the ends of the earth. The feet of the Apostles are beautiful. Their feet will be dirty in appearance but full of splendor in action.
May we all serve God and share the Good News. May we all have beautiful feet!
Feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle
Lectionary: 684
Reading 1
Brothers and sisters:
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved.
For one believes with the heart and so is justified,
and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.
The Scripture says,
No one who believes in him will be put to shame.
There is no distinction between Jew and Greek;
the same Lord is Lord of all,
enriching all who call upon him.
For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed?
And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone to preach?
And how can people preach unless they are sent?
As it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news!
But not everyone has heeded the good news;
for Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed what was heard from us?
Thus faith comes from what is heard,
and what is heard comes through the word of Christ.
But I ask, did they not hear?
Certainly they did; for
Their voice has gone forth to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.
The Washing of the Disciples’ Feet.*
1 Before the feast of Passover,* Jesus knew that his hour had come to pass from this world to the Father. He loved his own in the world and he loved them to the end.a
2 The devil had already induced* Judas, son of Simon the Iscariot, to hand him over. So, during supper,b
3 fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God,c
4 he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist.
5 * Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feetd and dry them with the towel around his waist.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Master, are you going to wash my feet?”
7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.”
8 Peter said to him, “You will never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.”e
9 Simon Peter said to him, “Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.”
10 Jesus said to him, “Whoever has bathed* has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over; so you are clean, but not all.”f
…20 Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”l -John 13:1-20
Give God Your Yes 