Join us for the Mass of Holy Thursday, the night when Jesus instituted the Holy Eucharist.  On Holy Thursday the ringing of bells ceases, the altar is stripped after vespers, and the night office is celebrated under the name of Tenebræ.   Adoration will follow in the chapel.

     Holy Thursday is also called "Maundy Thursday," from the Latin mandatum novum, which means "new commandment."  This commandment by Jesus is to love one another "as I have loved you."  We show our love for God by our service to others.

"On the day before he was to suffer, he took bread in his holy and venerable hands, with eyes raised to heaven to you, O God, his almighty Father, giving you thanks, he said the blessing, broke the bread and gave it to his disciples, saying: Take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my Body, which will be given up for you." (Roman Canon)