Our Lord Jesus Christ is the revelation of God. He shows us who God is. This is especially true at the end of Our Lord’s life. We reveal what we are particularly in a time of crisis. It is the time of Our Lord’s Passion that we see more clearly than ever before Who He is, Who God is. The Last Supper and the Passion make one thing very clear: our God is humble . Each event of the Last Supper and the Passion is a manifestation of Our Lord’s humility. There are many aspects of Our Lord’s humility that we could speak about. But I want to focus on one of them: Our Lord’s effort to lower Himself in order to do good to us. We could say that Our Lord has to make a choice between two things: love and justice. If He chooses justice, He maintains Himself strictly in His state of Godhood. If He chooses love, He lowers Himself so that He can stoop down to His miserable creatures and assist them. We see what Our Lord chooses. He chooses love, a love that works through humility. The love of God uses humility as the most effective way to express itself and achieve its goal of doing good to us. On this night of the Last Supper, Our Lord performs three great acts of humility that enable Him to do great good to the Apostles and also to us.
