Why Don't Catholics Wash Feet?

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All interesting stuff but again, why is washing feet not a sacrament? Doesn’t it meet all of the requirements of the other sacraments?
 
jinc1019 said:
All interesting stuff but again, why is washing feet not a sacrament? Doesn’t it meet all of the requirements of the other sacraments?
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What grace would it confer if it was a sacrament?
  1. Baptism remits original sin and whatever past sins and joins us to the Body of Christ.
  2. Confirmation/Chrismation confers the of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
  3. The Eucharist is our spiritual medicine and strengthens us. It effects a spiritual and mystical union with Jesus by the theological virtue of love It increase of sanctifying grace in the soul of the worthy communicant.
  4. Confession absolves our post-baptismal sins.
  5. Holy Orders gives the grace of the authority of the Christ as received by the Apostles in the three offices: bishops, priests, and deacons.
  6. Matrimony joins a man and a woman as on flesh.
  7. Holy Unction gives spiritual aid and comfort and perfect spiritual health, including, if need be, the remission of sins, and also, conditionally, to restore bodily health, to Christians who are seriously ill.
 
Zekariya said:
What grace would it confer if it was a sacrament?
  1. Baptism remits original sin and whatever past sins and joins us to the Body of Christ.
  2. Confirmation/Chrismation confers the of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
  3. The Eucharist is our spiritual medicine and strengthens us. It effects a spiritual and mystical union with Jesus by the theological virtue of love It increase of sanctifying grace in the soul of the worthy communicant.
  4. Confession absolves our post-baptismal sins.
  5. Holy Orders gives the grace of the authority of the Christ as received by the Apostles in the three offices: bishops, priests, and deacons.
  6. Matrimony joins a man and a woman as on flesh.
  7. Holy Unction gives spiritual aid and comfort and perfect spiritual health, including, if need be, the remission of sins, and also, conditionally, to restore bodily health, to Christians who are seriously ill.
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To be perfectly honest, I don’t know…but Jesus says we will be blessed if we do it and I think it falls in line with Holy Unction in some ways. The passage seems to be about equality so the blessing could somehow relate to that as well. I don’t purport to be a theologian but if God tells you to do something and then tells you that you will be blessed for doing it, that sounds like a sacrament or at least something we should all do.
 
jinc1019 said:
To be perfectly honest, I don’t know…but Jesus says we will be blessed if we do it and I think it falls in line with Holy Unction in some ways. The passage seems to be about equality so the blessing could somehow relate to that as well. I don’t purport to be a theologian but if God tells you to do something and then tells you that you will be blessed for doing it, that sounds like a sacrament or at least something we should all do.
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It sounds to me to be a good work. Perhaps an act of charity. Some places practice the washing of feet. It is not a Sacrament but, perhaps, it would be pious rite. 🙂
 
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