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| | violet | Thursday of Holy Week | | 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. | |
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- 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. | | Readings:
[39] Exod 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18; 1 Cor 11:23-26; John 13:1-15 | | 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. |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
| | 1506 | St. Francis Xavier is born at the family castle in Navarre. Six days later Peter Faber is born. | | 1994 | Three Jesuit priests killed, with 14 others at Centre Christus in Rwanda: Chrysologus Mahame (the first Rwandan Jesuit, age 67), Patrick Gahizi (age 48) , and Innocent Rutagambwa (age 46). Beginnings of genocide in Rwanda, one half million killed in the next seven months. | | 2014 | In Homs, Syria, Frans Van der Lugt is assassinated. | | | | |
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