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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pia de Solenni, an ethicist and moral theologian, said the significance of Jesus Christ washing the disciples’ feet resounds over the centuries: “At that time and now there’s that sense of ...

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 ...

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.