In Coena Domini explained

(Vatican Radio) I Missa in Coena Domini, or Mass of Our Lord’s Supper, the second of Holy Thursday’s liturgies, with which the universal Church enters the Holy Triduum.Listen: “The Holy Triduum are those final days when we follow Our Lord from the celebration of the Passover meal and the institution of the Eucharist in the Upper Room, in Jerusalem, towards his death the following day on Good Friday. Then we rest with him in the tomb on Holy Saturday until we celebrate we great joy looking back through all the scriptures, the wonderful workings of God to this moment when the Resurrection takes place. Three days but effectively one celebration.“It begins on Holy Thursday night with the Mass of the Lord’s Supper…when we celebrate the first Eucharist, when we commemorate Our Lord’s ordination of his first priests, the Apostles, and when we remember that coupled with the Eucharist, when we receive the Eucharist we are receiving nourishment not only for ourselves but we are receiving something that makes us like Christ. And for that we recall the washing of the feet of others, because this is the act of charity, this is the act that makes us Christians different in everything we do. We take our worship into the streets by converting it into a revelation in action, a revelation of God’s love for the whole world”.Produced by Emer McCarthy

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