The Chrism Mass may be
celebrated in the morning, or on another day earlier this week. White
vestments are worn. It is especially fitting that priests
concelebrate with the bishop. Priests may communicate under both
species, even if not concelebrating.
Readings:
[260] Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9; Ps 89; Rev 1:5-8; Lk 4:16:21
Apart from the Chrism Mass and the Mass of the Last Supper, all other
Masses are prohibited, unless the
Ordinary permits a second Mass, exclusively for those unable to
participate in the Evening Mass. "According to the Church's ancient
tradition, all Masses without a congregation are prohibited on this
day" (RM, Holy Thursday, Chrism Mass, rubric no. 1). Communion may be taken to the sick at any time, but otherwise may be distributed only during Mass. Funerals can only be celebrated without Mass.
Hours of the day. At Office of Readings, the psalms and antiphons of Friday, Week 3, may be used.
Today or on
another day of this week, some communal penitential celebration or
"rite of reconciliation" may be held, whether it be sacramental or
non-sacramental (according to the spirit of the Rite of
Penance, nn. 36-37). However, this celebration may not immediately precede or be incorporated into Mass.
THE SACRED PASCHAL TRIDUUM
The Sacred Paschal Triduum of the passion and resurrection of Christ is the culmination of the entire liturgical year. (RC, n.18)
The Paschal Triduum begins with the Mass of the Lord's Supper, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil, and closes with Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday. (RC, n.19)
Religious communities and other smaller communities are encouraged to join with a larger community to celebrate the liturgical services in common (PS no. 43), with a full complement of ministers and with song, rather than schedule separate celebrations (cf. PS no. 93).
During these days it is desirable that brothers and sisters "who experience the mystery of suffering" should share in and be participants in the liturgical celebrations of the community, especially if they are in the hospital, "that they may be helped to know the meaning of this reality which they live in union with the paschal mystery of Christ."
Therefore, keeping in mind their varying conditions and different circumstances, everything should be so arranged that in the most suitable manner the sick may have the possibility of receiving Communion and, if possible, participating in the veneration of the Cross on Good Friday.
white
Holy Thursday (evening)
Mass of the Lord's Supper. Gloria, Preface of Eucharist I, special Communicantes, Hanc Igitur and Qui pridie in Eucharistic Prayer I.
The tabernacle should be completely empty before the celebration. Enough hosts for the communion of the faithful for tonight and tomorrow should be consecrated during that celebration. For the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, a place should be prepared and adorned. When the tabernacle is in a chapel separated from the central part of the church, it is appropriate to prepare the place of repose and adoration there. [PS 49]
All priests may concelebrate the Mass, even if they have concelebrated the Chrism Mass in the morning. Bells may be rung during the Gloria, and are silent thereafter.
The mandatum - the washing of the feet - may take place after the homily.
Gifts for the poor, especially those collected during Lent as the fruit of penance, may be presented in the offertory procession while the people sing Ubi caritas. [PS 52]
After the Prayer After Communion, the greeting, blessing and dismissal are omitted. The celebrant incenses the Blessed Sacrament three times, receives the humeral veil and the procession follows as in the Missal. The cross-bearer goes first, [PS 54], then the Blessed Sacrament accompanied by torches and incense.
The faithful are encouraged, after the Mass of the Lord's Supper, to spend a suitable period of time during the night in the church in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament that has been solemnly reserved. Solemn adoration ends at midnight; the Blessed Sacrament remains at the Place of Repose until the Liturgical Action of Good Friday.
After the celebration, the altar is stripped without ceremony and
crosses are removed, if possible; otherwise they should be veiled.
It is appropriate that holy water be removed from the stoups at the
entrances of the church, to be replaced after new water is blessed at
the Easter Vigil.
Evening prayer is not celebrated by participants in the Mass of the Lord's Supper.
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Dismas, the good thief (cf. Lk. 23:41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Annunciation to Mary (cf. Lk. 1:26-38) [from the Roman Martyrology].
[RM]
Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Isaac, patriarch (cf. Gn. 15-35) [from the Roman Martyrology].
Anniversary:
167th anniversary of the death of F. David Caplice b. 1865.
Anniversary:
140th anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Glesinsky (33) d. 1892 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.
Anniversary:
137th anniversary of the death of S. Amandus Leroeye (28) d. 1895 at Bombay, India.
Anniversary:
100th anniversary of the death of P. Peter Molloy (58) d. 1932 at Preston, Lancs, England.
Anniversary:
81st anniversary of the death of F. Ignatius Matzke (81) d. 1951 at Grahamstown, RSA.
11th Anniversary of the erection of the Southern Africa Province.
On this day in our Jesuit history...
1524
Paschase Broet, one of the first ten companions of Ignatius, is ordained a priest long before he met St. Ignatius.
1538
Diego Hozes, S.J. dies. The first Jesuit to die. (even if the Society was not yet officially approved). He was a Spanish priest who died in Padua.
1563
The First Sodality of Our Lady of Fatima Prima Primaria was started at the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis.
1563
The first Sodality of Our Lady, Prima Primaria, was begun in the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit named John Leunis (Leonius).
1586
St. Margaret Clitheroe dies on this day, pressed to death. New RM. She protected some Jesuit Fathers.
1634
Andrew White, S.J. arrives in Maryland. Mass said on St. Clement Isle, River Potomac, not far from St. Inigo's. This is the beginning of Catholicism in English speaking America).
1847
Virgil Barber, S.J. dies. A convert to Catholicism, his wife and five children become religious, one of them a Jesuit.
1904
Francis Xavier is chosen by Pius X as the patron of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
1920
Instruction/Letter of Father General Ledochowski on the use of the telephone. No general permission is given to scholastics to use the phone, and no phones in private rooms.
1962
Fr. Felice Cappello dies, known as "the Confessor of Rome", for hearing confessions at St. Ignatius Church.
1968
Paul VI approve new statutes for Sodalities, now CLC.
1980
Paul Dent, one of the first Missouri Province Jesuits who went to India in the 1920's, dies.
