With the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, the Church begins her three most sacred days. From Thursday evening through Sunday evening, the Church observes the Paschal Triduum, marking the Passion, ...

Apparently the term “Maundy Thursday” comes from the Latin phrase “mandatum novum” meaning “new commandment.” The reference is to John 13, which features the story of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet ...

On Saturday Pope Francis said that love is more than just saying nice words and doing things – it means forgetting oneself and serving others, just as Jesus did when he washed the feet of the ...

There are many details worth noting in this familiar account of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper. The first is that it substitutes a profound example of service for the ...

Super Bowl commercials are always a topic of conversation. This year, one commercial in particular caught my attention and sparked conversations across various social media platforms. The ad, ...

On Sunday morning, Pope Benedict and the Roman Curia came to the end of their six day retreat that they took as a way of making Lent a time of true conversion. Following its conclusion, Benedict XVI ...

The washing of feet was a radical act in Jesus’ time. It is no less radical in the modern era, with Pope Francis’ decision to break with the long-standing papal tradition of washing only priests’ feet ...

Washing the feet of guests was a Middle Eastern tradition that went back centuries before the time of Christ. Travel was often done by foot over dry and dusty roads.Weary travelers were greeted with a ...

There are two places in the Scriptures where we find descriptions of Jesus asking his disciples to do something in imitation of him. Of course the first that we would immediately think of is when, at ...