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 ...

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 servants. It’s the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has performed the ancient Maundy Thursday feet washing ceremony in Canterbury Cathedral for the first time in 400 years. Dr Rowan Williams, assisted by chief clergymen, ...

Hyderabad: Churches observed Maundy Thursday — commemorating Jesus’ Last Supper — through special liturgies, foot-washing ceremonies and Holy Communion services. Presiding over a ...

(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 ...