On Thursday, at the tiny parish of Christ Church in Redondo Beach, a couple dozen Episcopalians took turns washing each other’s feet. The ritual, part of Maundy Thursday, in the run-up to Good ...

Why foot-washing? Maundy Thursday is also associated with foot-washing. Jesus washed the feet of the disciples, an act described in the Gospel of John, chapter 13, as Jesus teaching them to be ...

The foot-washing ritual takes place on the Thursday before Easter and seeks to imitate Jesus Christ’s washing of his disciples’ feet the night before he died. Since his election, the pope has ...

Also known as Maundy Thursday, the custom was introduced to imitate Jesus washing the feet of the the Twelve Apostles at the Last Supper the night before he was crucified. The act was also an ...

Reuters Maundy Thursday celebrates the Washing of the Feet and the Last Supper. Maundy Thursday, which is the Christian holy day observed on the Thursday before Easter, is known to be the day when ...

Before Good Friday, there is another significant date that is observed on the Christian calendar: Maundy Thursday ... for the monarch to wash worshippers' feet in Westminster Abbey, as well ...

Matthew 26:42 (NRSV) Churches who gather for a Maundy Thursday service might pray, conduct a foot washing service, read scripture, commemorate and participate in Communion and have a time of singing.

Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday ... Mass or Eucharist. But feet-washing and Communion isn’t the only ritual observed on this day around the world. The ritual of Vattienti that ...

Scenes from the Holy Thursday prayer service presented ... and community advocates participated in The Washing of the Feet service, known as Maundy, a religious rite observed by various Christian ...

(Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) MAUNDY WASHING OF THE FEET — Sister Ann Rowland, left, with Bishop David Maldonado, is greeted by a protester during a Holy Thursday prayer service presented by ...