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by bcadmin | Apr 16, 2022 | Archbishop Gregory Aymond, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Foot-washing, Holy Thursday, News, Prisoners | 0 |
Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond washed the feet of male and female inmates, telling them the ritual is to remind them they “are not forgotten” and that there “is nothing too great for God to forgive” if they ask for his mercy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Foot-washing, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Last Supper, lead, News, Pope Francis, Prisoners, Prisons, Vatican | 0 |
In yet another sign of things going back to normal after the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis on Thursday led the Mass of the Last Supper in a prison in the outskirts of Rome where he washed the feet of 12 inmates.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Holy Thursday, News, Pope Francis, Prison, Triduum, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis traveled to a prison near Rome to wash the feet of a dozen inmates, a Holy Thursday ritual that symbolizes humility and highlights his papacy’s attention to those on society’s margins.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 14, 2022 | 2022, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Easter Triduum, Fr. Thomas G, Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek's "How His Passion and Death Become Ours", Frans Pourbus the Younger, Holy Communion, Holy Thursday, Institution of the Eucharist, Jesus Christ, Last Supper, Michael Pakaluk, News, The Catholic Thing, Weinandy | 0 |
Fr. Timothy Vaverek: As we enter the Sacred Triduum with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, let us consider Jesus’ sacrificial gift of Himself.
The post How His Passion and Death Become Ours appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Faith is caught, Good Friday, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, News, Stations of the Cross, Sunday Scriptures, Sunday Vespers, Tenebrae service, Veneration of the Cross | 0 |
I was raised in the Catholic Church, and every year during Holy Week, that took a literal meaning. From Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, we practically lived at church!
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2021 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Holy Thursday, lead, London, Media, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, public relations, Secretariat of State, Vatican News | 0 |
If you stand on a balcony and chuck a brick over the side, and that brick ends up hitting somebody in the street, it’s no defense to blame the law of gravity. Similarly, if you build a PR bomb and take no steps to defuse it, you don’t get to blame the media for the blast.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Holy Thursday, News, Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction | 0 |
This year, our Holy Thursday liturgy will be missing a familiar component—the Washing of the Feet. A small if unholy part of me is somewhat relieved. The liturgy is long enough. Surely we’ve sanitized sufficiently this year! And quite frankly, I find the foot-washing to be a bit awkward. In the past, the ceremony was […]
by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, Holy Thursday, Holy Week, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
In a surprise move, Pope Francis on Holy Thursday celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the private apartment of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who resigned from his post earlier this year at the pope’s request.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Associated Press, Cathedral of Notre Dame, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, France, Holy Thursday, News, Paris | 0 |
A Holy Thursday service in Paris was held at Notre Dame cathedral, which is still under construction after it was ravaged by flames just days before Easter in 2019, its spire crumbling in a shocking blaze.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, COVID-19 pandemic, Holy Thursday, News, Pope Francis, second, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican | 0 |
With Pope Francis not in attendance, on Thursday the dean of the College of Cardinals celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Last Supper in an eerily empty St. Peter’s Basilica, describing this liturgy as a reminder of “how much we have been loved.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2021 | Anne Catherine Emmerich, Easter Triduum, Featured, Holy Days & Feasts, Holy Thursday, News, The Dolorous Passion | 0 |
Today is Holy Thursday, also known colloquially as “Maundy Thursday,” which begins the Easter Triduum. What does “Maundy” mean? It’s a derivative of the language used in the “new commandment” given by Christ as he washed the feet of the […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Catholic Church, Christ, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Featured, Gospel, Holy Thursday, Holy Triduum, Holy Week, Jesus Christ, News, sacrifice, Scripture, Sunday Scripture Reflections | 0 |
Holy Thursday, the night of the Last Supper aka the Lord’s Supper, the institution of the Holy Eucharist — why did Jesus do what he did and say what he said? What did he mean when he said “This is my body and this is my blood” and “Do this in Memory of…
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