![]() ![]() The Mass begins as usual, with the exception that the tabernacle, wherever placed, should be empty. Current rubrics indicate that the rite is not an obligatory part of that Mass, but rather is something to be carried out "where a pastoral reason suggests it" (Roman Missal, Mass of the Lord's Supper, no. The 1955 revision by Pope Pius XII inserted it into the Mass. He did not make it part of the Mass, but indicated that it was to take place "at a suitable hour" after the stripping of the altars. Pope Pius V included this rite in his Roman Missal, placing it after the text of the Mass of the Lord's Supper. By the twelfth century it was found in the Roman liturgy as a separate service. The washing of feet that is now part of the Mass of the Lord's Supper was in use at an early stage without relation to this particular day, and was first prescribed for use on Holy Thursday by a 694 Council of Toledo. ![]() Pope Pius V's reforms in 1570 forbade the celebration of Mass after noon, and the Mass of the Lord's Supper became a morning Mass and remained so until Pope Pius XII's reforms in the 1950s. The last two were in reduced form, being without Liturgy of the Word. By the eighth century, the Masses became three: one for reconciliation, one for blessing the holy oils and a third for the Last Supper. The Jerusalem custom spread and in seventh-century Rome the Pope celebrated a Mass of the Lord's Supper on this day as well as the Mass of Reconciliation. In Rome at that time a Mass was celebrated at which penitents were reconciled with a view to participation in the Easter celebrations. The celebration of a Mass in the evening of Holy Thursday began in late fourth-century Jerusalem, where it became customary to celebrate the events of the Passion of Jesus in the places where they took place. The Orthodox equivalent is found in the Triodion, with the Washing of Feet in some editions of the Euchologion. In Methodism, they are found in the Book of Worship for Church and Home and The United Methodist Book of Worship, among other liturgical texts. In Anglicanism, these rites are found in the Book of Common Prayer, as well as in the Anglican Missal. In Lutheranism, the Maundy Thursday liturgy is found in the Lutheran Service Book and Evangelical Lutheran Worship, among other service books. The Mass stresses three aspects of that event: "the institution of the Eucharist, the institution of the ministerial priesthood, and the commandment of brotherly love that Jesus gave after washing the feet of his disciples." ![]() A comparable service is celebrated in the Orthodox Church. The Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and Methodist traditions, as well as some Reformed (including certain Continental Reformed, Presbyterian and Congregationalist churches) traditions celebrate the Mass of the Lord's Supper (or the Liturgy of Maundy Thursday). It inaugurates the Easter Triduum, and commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, more explicitly than other celebrations of the Mass. The Mass of the Lord's Supper, also known as A Service of Worship for Maundy Thursday, is a Holy Week service celebrated on the evening of Maundy Thursday. ![]()
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