What is the horizon of the mind and heart of Jesus?  How would you describe it?  What is the horizon of the Christian faith?  These questions come into central focus on this Holy Thursday which opens the Triduum.  Foundational to Christian faith is love, the primacy of love, the love of God fully revealed in Christ.  Today’s liturgy focuses on two rituals: the sacrament of the Eucharist and the washing of the feet.  Woven into both is the transformative power of love…love is the reality, the motivating force, behind and within these rituals, one a Christian sacrament and the other sacramental in conveying Divine love, mercy, and grace.

 Readings of the day: RB 48:10-21
Chrism Mass: Is 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9; Resp Ps 89; Rev 1:5-8; Lk 4:16-21Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Resp Ps 116; 1 Co 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15


We are about to enter the most sacred days of the liturgical year: ‘The Paschal Triduum of the Passion and Re