Songs of the new commandment (John 13:1-17, 31b-35)
For two decades, every Holy Thursday I heard the same voice singing the same song.
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For about two decades, each Holy Thursday at St. Vincent Martyr Church in Madison, New Jersey, I heard our music director, Vicky Martell, sing Shirley Lewis Brown’s "The Foot Washing Song”:
