VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just before some 1,500 priests, bishops and cardinals renewed their priestly promises, Pope Francis asked them to embrace “compunction,” which he said was “an aspect of the spiritual life that has been somewhat neglected yet remains essential.” Looking at its etymology, he said that “compunction is ‘a piercing of the heart’…
Readings for the Holy Thursday -Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Readings for the Thursday of Holy Week Reading 1 Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,because the LORD has anointed me;He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly,to heal the brokenhearted,To proclaim liberty to the…
Readings for the Thursday of Holy Week Readings for the Chrism Mass 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:…
Readings for the Holy Thursday -Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Readings for the Chrism Mass Chrism Mass Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper – – – Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain…
ROME (CNS) — As Pope Francis poured water over their feet, dried them with a towel and kissed their feet, 12 women inmates at Rome’s Rebibbia prison wept. The pope celebrated the evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 28 at the women’s prison under a tent set up outside. The 12 women whose feet…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis told Catholics in the Holy Land that he knows Holy Week this year is “so overshadowed by the Passion and, as yet, so little by the Resurrection.” In a letter published March 27, Pope Francis told the region’s Catholics that he was remembering all of them in his prayers,…