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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. [1] [2] It inaugurates the Easter Triduum, [3] and commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, more explicitly than other celebrations of the Mass.
The Seven Churches Visitation is an originally Roman Catholic Lenten tradition to visit seven churches on the evening of Holy Thursday. Following the Mass of the Lord's Supper, the Blessed Sacrament is placed on the Altar of Repose in the church for adoration. During the Seven Churches Visitation, the faithful visit several churches ...
The term Mass, also Holy Mass, is commonly used to describe the celebration of the Eucharist in the Latin Church, while the various Eastern Catholic liturgies use terms such as Divine Liturgy, Holy Qurbana, and Badarak, [6] in accordance with each one's tradition.
In 2024, Maundy Thursday services will be held on the evening of March 28, 2024 for those using the Western liturgical calendar. The Orthodox and others using the Eastern liturgical calendar will ...
Maundy Thursday is notable for being the day on which the Chrism Mass is celebrated in each diocese. Usually held in the diocesan cathedral, it is generally held on the morning of Maundy Thursday, but may in some dioceses take place on another day during Holy Week. [68] The Mass is a celebration of the institution of the priesthood. [66] [69]
The liturgical colour for the Mass vestments and other ornaments is white in the Catholic and Anglican Churches. [10] In the Lutheran Church, the liturgical colour for Maundy Thursday is white. [11] In the Reformed tradition, white or gold may be used. [12] In the United Methodist Church, black is used as the liturgical colour.
Holy Week, which is the week before Easter, starts with Palm Sunday and also includes Maundy Thursday, ... Lent is observed by Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant believers. Even within those ...
On Holy Thursday, the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church provides for the transfer of the Blessed Sacrament in a procession to a side altar or a sacrament chapel after the Mass of the Lord's Supper. [25]