ROCKVILLE CENTRE (CBSNewYork) - The fifth day of Holy Week, known as Holy Thursday or Maundy Thursday, commemorates the last supper of Jesus Christ with the apostles. Throughout this whole week, ...

The focus at Christmas, so often, is on the Virgin Birth of Jesus. The Virgin Birth was a miracle, but the greater miracle was the Incarnation which communicates that Deity took on humanity. The Bible ...

Holy Thursday strides two liturgical seasons: Lent and the Paschal Triduum. The Paschal Triduum, the “Great Three Days,” begins (and Lent ends) with the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy ...

Jesus went to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came ...

ROME — Pope Francis had a message for prison inmates at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday: Jesus does not play it safe, but takes a risk on each one of us, even to the point of washing ...

The Thursday before Easter is known as either Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday. Maundy is derived from the Latin word for “command,” and refers to Jesus’ commandment to the disciples to “Love one ...

Maundy Thursday 2025: Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church Raphael Thattil touches the feet of a faithful as part of the Maundy Thursday observance at the St. Francis Assisi Cathedral Church, ...

Easter will this year be observed on Sunday, April 17—a date determined by the Full Moon, making the event what is known as a "movable feast." Following Palm Sunday's arrival and the beginning of Holy ...

The Christian community across the globe is observing the holy week or Passion Week--one of the most important periods in the Christian calendar. The period is a sequence of eight days that provides ...

This week, we're posting three lectionary blog posts: Maundy Thursday's today, Good Friday's tomorrow, and Easter Sunday's on Wednesday. For more commentary on the readings, see the Reflections on the ...

One is revered. One is reviled. A savior and a betrayer. The relationship between Jesus, believed by Christians to be the son of God, and Judas, the man who betrayed him and set the wheels in motion ...