10. Washing and Anointing the Feet of Jesus:

Gift of Paul and Antonina Starzyk.

This window portrays the Gospel story of Penance and Repentance. The woman, a sinner, washes the feet of the master. This forms a Scripture basis for the Franciscan call to penance.

When Jesus was dining in the house of one of the Pharisees, a townswoman who was a sinner bathes His feet with her tears, dried them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with ointment. One of Jesus’ disciples, Judas Iscariot, decried the use of the ointment for the anointing of Jesus’ feet. He contended that the ointment should have been sold and the proceeds given to the poor. Jesus responded that she did a good deed, that there would always be poor amongst them, but that He, Jesus, would not always be in their midst.