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Pope Marks Holy Thursday's Ritual Washing of Feet March 29, 2018 9:54 AM update March 29, 2018 3:40 PM ... where he would regularly mark the Holy Thursday liturgy in local jails.
Pope Francis washes the feet of an inmate at the Rebibbia women's prison on the outskirts of Rome as he celebrates the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord's Supper on March 28, 2024. The pontiff washed ...
The Holy Thursday foot-washing ceremony is a hallmark of every Holy Week and recalls the foot-washing Jesus performed on his 12 apostles at their last supper ... During the morning liturgy, ...
Pope Francis washes the feet of detainees and inmates at Rebibbia Prison in Rome on Holy Thursday, April 2, 2015. (photo: L'Osservatore Romano) CNA/EWTN NEWS News January 21, 2016 ...
(RNS) Pope Francis will spend Holy Thursday washing the feet of disabled people, some of them women and some perhaps non-Catholics. That upsets traditionalists, who say the rite should be ...
Cambridge, MA. I am privileged once again this year to be the scheduled celebrant at the Holy Thursday liturgy in the parish where I help out, Our Lady of Sorrows in Sharon, MA.
Pope Francis on Holy Thursday washed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Roman prison, notably excluding men from the ritual, telling detainees to never tire of asking for God’s forgiveness.
CLEVELAND– Holy Week observances were held Thursday night at the Cathedral of St. John in downtown Cleveland. Holy Thursday was celebrated with the mass and with the traditional washing of the feet.
Today is Holy Thursday, the anniversary of the Last Supper, when Christ instituted the Eucharist, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the Sacrament of the priesthood. But since our boyhood days, we ...
NCR Today: Pope Francis has made a change to the Roman Missal officially permitting the washing of women's feet in the Holy Thursday ritual, and for some, this change is disturbing.
VATICAN CITY — This Holy Thursday, Pope Francis will wash the feet of prison inmates and say Mass at their penitentiary. The Pope will visit Paliano Prison south of Rome the afternoon of April ...