text: "Francis seems to make a bigger...splash on washing feet, in contrast to the Eucharist."
  
  It is really very simple, Heartbreaker. Francis, and a lot of scripture scholars and theologians and prayerful people, note with great wonder that the Gospel of John effectively replaces the Eucharist with the Washing of the Feet at the Last Supper as described by the synoptic gospels.
  
  In the Eucharist we do what Jesus did, take, bless, and distribute the Holy Gifts. Nothing could be more fitting than for the earthly leader of the Christian community, on the day we celebrate the foundation of our Eucharistic practice, to do what Jesus, the heavenly leader of the Christian community, did at that first Eucharist. 
  
  It is a marvelous thing that Francis manages to draw our attention to this fundamental scriptural connection between "Washing the Feet of Others" and the Eucharist by attracting the attention of the world media to such a tiny gesture. The invitation from Jesus is that we do likewise.