Emphasis Preaching Journal

In the Greek Orthodox Maundy Thursday footwashing in Jerusalem, a large crowd of worshipers fills the parvis (courtyard) of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulchre) where the Patriarch washes the feet of twelve bishops, dramatizing the apostles' feet being washed by Jesus. When the Patriarch comes to the bishop portraying St. Peter, an audible raising of voices and a fierce discussion which some say once even developed into a pushing and shoving incident, makes it clear to those watching, even though the dialogue is in Greek, that St.