The sacred triduum's symbols are sacraments that point to what is real

The sacred triduum's symbols are sacraments that point to what is real
Symbols do matter, as do words, both for what they point to and what is missing. The washing of the feet points to what the Church should be and is not. Francis heads us in that direction, beginning to make real the command of Jesus to not lord their authority over others as the Gentiles do. I am sure he is not pleased that His teachings are interpreted "from the throne" as a Magisterium.

The most powerful words on Thursday are followed by a promise to not drink the fruit of the vine. In John's Gospel, He cries out "I thirst." Either we are part of a fraud or we came into the Kingdom just before that, when Jesus cried out "My God! My God! Why have you left me?" Some say his despair is mystery, but any sufferer will not, for it is the despair at the heart of our humanity. By sharing it, he lets us share his divinity. In the verse before in John, he essentially told his mother that he was dead to her, putting her in John's care and laying down all she had told him of his birth through the Spirit.

So deep was his despair and agony in that moment that he could no longer feel his union with Her. Thus, he did not offer his sacrifice to an angry Father, but took the Father on a quest into our brokenness.

There was no original sin to atone for. Only human suffering to overcome through the fruit of the vine, which he did consume before dying. Sin does not come through women or sex, so the old excuses need to be abandoned. There were women present to witness to the Last Supper, the Passion, the Death and the Resurrection. It is time to honor that witness and ordain them to the priesthood. That is the symbol that we must seek.