Today, I brought holy oil around to members of the BC High community. It was nard that I bought at the Mount of Olives in Bethany near the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. The scripture passage below speaks of Mary's experience of washing the feet of Jesus. I used the aromatic oil at mass and I applied it on the faithful around school to bring them the sensory part of our Scripture.
John 12:1-10
Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
They gave a dinner for him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
Then Judas the Iscariot, one of his disciples, and the one who would betray him, said, "Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wages and given to the poor?" He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal the contributions.
So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of my burial. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me."
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