Pope to wash feet of inmates at Paliano prison on Holy
Thursday
Pope Francis washes and kisses the feet of refugees during the celebration of Our Lord's Supper at Castelnuovo's centre for asylum seekers in 2016.-REUTERS |
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis will wash the feet of inmates
at Paliano prison, south of Rome, during the Mass of Our Lord’s Supper on Holy
Thursday.
The Vatican announced on Thursday that the pope will travel
to the penitentiary on the afternoon of April 13th for a private visit and the
celebration of Mass marking Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples on the day
before his Crucifixion.
Pope Francis began the tradition of travelling to a prison
for the traditional Last Supper Mass in March 2013, just a few days after the
inauguration of his pontificate. On that occasion he travelled to Rome’s Casal
del Marmo youth detention centre where he included, for the first
time, women and Muslims among the inmates whose feet he washed.
The following year, he celebrated the Last Supper Mass at
Rome’s Don Gnocchi centre for the disabled, again including women
among those who had their feet washed in memory of Jesus’ gesture of humility
and service.
In 2015 Pope Francis travelled to Rome’s Rebibbia
prison for the Holy Thursday celebration, while last year he washed
the feet of refugees, including Muslims, Hindus and Coptic Orthodox men and
women at a centre for asylum seekers in Castelnuovo di Porto, just
north of Rome.
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