Bare feet on Good Friday?

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Inspired by this thread I wore sandals to Good Friday Liturgy and went barefoot to venerate the Cross. The marble floors were so cold! I think I was the only person there barefoot–our priest and deacon had shoes on. Oh well. I was the only person with a bell during the Gloria on Maundy Thursday too.

Have a blessed Pascha everyone.
 
I wonder how much of this is tangled up culturally with the fact that while bare feet did symbolize humility on holy ground, here in the USA being barefoot is seen as casual and disrespectful.

Our priest and deacons were in stocking feet for their prostration and when they venerated the cross, but otherwise I couldn’t see their feet to know how long they were barefoot.
 
when our priest was at the back of the church for the procession and adoration of the cross, he removed his shoes and went the remainder of the mass barefoot. I thought this was to represent walking the path of Christ, who was probably forced to carry his cross sandal-less
 
EvelynEVF said:
I wonder how much of this is tangled up culturally with the fact that while bare feet did symbolize humility on holy ground, here in the USA being barefoot is seen as casual and disrespectful.

Our priest and deacons were in stocking feet for their prostration and when they venerated the cross, but otherwise I couldn’t see their feet to know how long they were barefoot.
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Just to say that in the US people who think that barefoot is casual and disrespectful have it very wrong. The nuns of the Poor Clare Sisters in Cleveland do live barefoothttp://media.cleveland.com/plain-dealer/photo/9143124-standard.jpg
 
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