Definition of Holy Thursday

An annual celebration associated with Easter

Holy Thursday is a working day that celebrates and remembers the religion Christian every year and is closely linked to Easter, which is the day that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Holy Thursday precisely integrates what is called Holy Week, the commemoration that the Catholic faith of the passion performs every year, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Without a doubt, Holy Week is one of the most important and intense celebrations that Christianity has and that lasts a week, beginning on Palm Sunday, which commemorates Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, and ends on Easter Sunday, when Jesus resurrects.

Jesus performs the Last Supper with his apostles and proceeds to wash the feet

In the course of that week there are key days, one is Holy Thursday precisely which is the day in the one that Jesus performs the Last Supper with his apostles and proceeds to wash the feet, giving a show more to his faithful of his modesty and total delivery.

Foot washing, a ritual followed by Pope Francis

Around this day there are many traditions and rites in Christianity, while among the most common and repeated in time are the mass, processions and also the washing of feet.
To the respect of the latter tradition initiated by Jesus with the apostles, we must emphasize that the current Pope Francis, since he occupies the position, has personally taken care to highlight and repeat that act of extreme humility of Jesus to wash the feet. For this reason, every Holy Thursday the Pope approaches a community or institution composed of humble people, or also to a prison, as it did recently, to reflect and revalue in first person that act of love perpetrated by Jesus on Holy Thursday.

In addition to the washing of the feet, on Holy Thursday the Eucharist is celebrated, and then the betrayal of one of the apostles, Judas, who delivers Jesus to be captured and led to Calvary of the cross.