The Pope's Holy Week Schedule from the article:
Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics on Wednesday to go to confession during Holy Week, Christianity's most solemn period, when the faithful recall the last days of Christ's life and his resurrection on Easter.
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"A good confession before Easter remains an obligation that should be fully valued and gives us the opportunity to start anew," Benedict told several thousand pilgrims and tourists gathered in a sunny St. Peter's Square for his weekly public audience.
Holy Thursday
As part of his busy Holy Week schedule, Benedict will travel across town Thursday to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he will wash the feet of 12 priests, recalling the Gospel account of Christ washing the feet of his 12 apostles before the Last Supper.
I guess that takes care of the thorny problem of women wanting their feet washed. 12 priests- good call.
And what a coincidence! Happy Birthday to Our Holy Father and Happy Easter as well.
Afterward, the pope, whose 79th birthday falls on Easter Sunday, plans a brief vacation at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban Hills south of Rome.
1 comment:
Wow! Washing the feet of 12 priests. What an innovation. I wonder who thought of it...? Oh, that's right, Jesus did.
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