Saviour’s church to the Cenacle and to the churches of St. At 3:10pm in the afternoon, there will be a pilgrimage beginning from St. At 7 a Pontifical Mass of Washing of the Feet will be celebrated in the Holy Sepulchre. Holy Thursday (1 of April 2021) solemnizes the events described above.
Christ let the people arrest him to fulfill the prophecies written in the Scriptures. He kissed his teacher, and pointed out who should be captured. Suddenly Judas arrived with the soldiers behind him. He wanted to pray on the mount, he took with him only Peter and two sons of Zebedee: James and John, so they could guard the place while he was praying. At that moment, Christ revealed that he is going to die for the forgiveness of sins of all his followers.Īfter the meal, Jesus and his disciples went to the Mount of Olives to Gethsemane. While they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread and asked the gathered to eat it as it was his body, and he took a cup of wine and told them to drink from it as it was his blood. Jesus surely knew that one of his disciples – Judas Iscariot, went to the high priests and agreed with them on a prize of the thirty silver coins for betraying his teacher. When he approached Simon Peter, the disciple wanted to refuse: “Are you going to wash my feet Lord?” (John 13:6) Jesus wanted to teach his followers that all the people are equal and that no one is better than another: “I am telling you the truth: no slave is greater than his master, and no messenger is greater than the one who sent him.” (John 13:16)Īgain at the table, Christ said to his twelve disciples: “I tell you, one of you will betray me.” (Matt 26:21) After hearing those words, all of the apostles became very upset. So He ordered that they say these words to a ‘certain man’: “The Teacher says, My hour has come my disciples and I will celebrate the Passover at your house.” (Matt 26:18).Īlready at the supper, suddenly, Jesus rose from the table and started to wash and dry disciple’s feet. On the first day of Passover, the disciples asked Jesus, where they should eat their meal. Holy Thursday – The Last Supper and Arrest of Jesus The celebration is followed by the spiritual pilgrimage to Pater Noster Church and the Chapel of Ascension. Typically they will gather first at the Tomb of Lazarus and later in the church. To commemorate this event, Franciscan brothers make an annual pilgrimage to Bethany (El-Azariya). However, Jesus excused her and said that she prepared him for the upcoming burial. Christ’s disciples did not understand why she would ‘waste’, as they thought, such a valuable thing. While he was eating, a woman came and broke a jar containing a very expensive perfume made of the pure nard, which she poured on his head.
Jesus was then anointed in Bethany, at the house of Simon. At the same time, chief priests and elders, who were against Jesus, were making plans how and when to arrest him. Those are the words Jesus said to his disciples two days before he was captured and sentenced to death. “In two days, as you know, it will be the Passover Festival, and the Son of Man, will be handed over to be crucified.” (Matt.
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