SCRIPTURES & ART: Tonight’s Gospel from John focuses instead on the Mandatum, Jesus’ washing of his Apostles’ feet at the start of the Last Supper.

At the Last Supper, Jesus washes the feet of his disciples. After doing so, he tells the disciples to go out and wash the feet of others, saying “No servant is greater than his master, ...

Today is Holy Thursday so allow me to share with you our reflections on today’s gospel about the washing of the disciples’ feet, which for me is one of the greatest teachings of Christianity ...

The image of a group of white police officers kneeling before Black clergy, washing their feet in ... a moment intended to invoke the biblical story of Jesus cleansing the feet of his disciples.

Two of the 12 were young women, a remarkable choice given that the rite re-enacts Jesus' washing of the feet of his male disciples ...

Two of the 12 were young women, an unusual choice given that the rite re-enacts Jesus' washing of the feet of his male disciples. The Mass was held in the Casal del Marmo facility in Rome, where ...

There is an magnificent rendition of this precise moment by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown, who painted “Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet” (1852-1856).

ROME (AP) – Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of a dozen inmates at a juvenile detention center in a Holy Thursday ritual that he celebrated for years as archbishop and is continuing no… ...

Today is Holy Thursday or Maundy Thursday. According to the Catholic Church history, the name for the day was from the old French Mande or in old Latin as Mandatum, meaning to beg.