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Mar 28, 2024 · Holy Thursday is the commemoration of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ, when he established the sacrament of Holy Communion prior to his arrest and crucifixion. It also commemorates His institution of the priesthood. The holy day falls on the Thursday before Easter and is part of Holy Week. Jesus celebrated the dinner as a Passover feast.
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The washing of the feet and the sacrament of the Eucharist: two expressions of one and the same mystery of love entrusted to the disciples, so that, Jesus says, ‘as I have done… so also must you do’ (John 13:15)– Pope John Paul II I throw myself at the foot of the Tabernacle like a dog at the foot of his Master – St. John Vianney The Bread that we ...
Sonnet for Maundy Thursday
Here is the source of every sacrament, The all-transforming presence of the Lord, Replenishing our every element Remaking us in his creative Word. For here the earth herself gives bread and wine, The air delights to bear his Spirit’s speech, The fire dances where the candles shine, The waters cleanse us with His gentle touch. And here He shows the full extent of love To us whose love is always incomplete, In vain we search the heavens high above, The God of love is kneeling at our feet. Thoug...
Loved to the End: A Poem for Maundy Thursday
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be loved. It is a memory deeper in me than marrow or the worst pain I’ve ever felt or the dark, damp curve where my child’s life began – Love – the real love that whispers, yet has no voice; knows, yet is without detail. That kind of love is what I’m thinking about these long, thinning Jerusalem days. How do I know what love can be? Love that rises up against all the storm’s fury that tells me I’m lost at sea – not worth saving. Love that curls...
This Bread I Break
This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wine at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape’s joy. Once in this time wine the summer blood Knocked in the flesh that decked the vine, Once in this bread The oat was merry in the wind; Man broke the sun, pulled the wind down. This flesh you break, this blood you let Make desolation in the vein, Were oat and grape Born of the sensual root and sap; My wine you drink, my bread you snap...
For all those who have gone before, walked the path we tread, and, by their example, encouragement, wise words and teaching led others into your Kingdom, we offer our grateful thanks. For all who, through their actions put others before self, demonstrating the meaning of generosity, giving from their riches and also from their poverty, we offer our...
Jun 25, 2019 · Holy Thursday, the first day of the Triduum, falls on a different date each year. Find the date of Holy Thursday in this, previous, and future years.
Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, among other names, [note 1] is the day during Holy Week that commemorates the Washing of the Feet (Maundy) and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles, as described in the canonical gospels.
Mar 28, 2013 · Maundy Thursday is part of the Christian celebration of Easter and marks the night of the Last Supper as told in the Bible. This year it will take place on 28 March.
Lectionary: 39. Reading I. Ex 12:1-8, 11-14. The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the year. Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every one of your families.
Apr 14, 2022 · Holy Thursday, 14 April 2022. [Multimedia] ______________________________________. Every Holy Thursday we read this Gospel passage: it is a simple thing. Jesus, with his friends, his disciples, is at supper, the Passover supper.
