Christ Jesus, on the night you were betrayed you knelt to wash our feet, and called us "friends." Then from the heart, with all your heart you prayed to God, the Life on whom all life depends, that we would take the Way you had begun, walk in your love, and in your love be one. Forgive us when we do each other down with gossip, insult, ridicule or guile, or when we do not care enough to frown, debate and differ, clash and reconcile. Give us persistent zeal in all we do to love as you love us, and follow you. Good Shepherd, through our glory, grief and shame you pray for us, and daily, hour by hour, lift every life and utter every name with dying love and resurrection power. A towel and a basin shall declare our joint thanksgiving and your constant prayer.