Q: Good evening, Fr.  Turner.  We have two priests and two deacons at our parish.  Should we decide the washing of the feet among them, meaning each of the clergies will wash three person’s feet or let the priests wash the feet of the parishioners and let the deacons to assist?  Thanks.

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A: In the Missal, for the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, at no. 10, it says that the priest washes the feet “with the help of ministers.” I admit this is a little vague, but it implies that the presider of the Mass is the one who washes feet. There’s never an explicit provision for deacons to do so—or concelebrants or others for that matter.

Here’s a previous post: https://paulturner.org/washing-feet/

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