washing feet - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 10 Apr 2014 05:03:14 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg washing feet - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope to wash feet of disabled and elderly on Holy Thursday https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/04/11/pope-wash-feet-disabled-elderly-holy-thursday/ Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:05:23 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=56638 Pope Francis will wash the feet of 12 disabled and elderly people when he celebrates Mass on Holy Thursday evening, the Vatican has announced. This will be at the Father Carlo Gnocchi Foundation's Our Lady of Providence Centre, a rehabilitation and care centre on the outskirts of Rome for people with disabilities and the elderly. Read more

Pope to wash feet of disabled and elderly on Holy Thursday... Read more]]> Pope Francis will wash the feet of 12 disabled and elderly people when he celebrates Mass on Holy Thursday evening, the Vatican has announced.

This will be at the Father Carlo Gnocchi Foundation's Our Lady of Providence Centre, a rehabilitation and care centre on the outskirts of Rome for people with disabilities and the elderly.

Last year, the newly elected Pope Francis broke with tradition and washed the feet of young offenders - including a Muslim woman - in Rome's Casal del Marmo centre.

Previously popes conducted the liturgy at St John Lateran or St Peter's Basilica.

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