BENEDICT XVI: NEWS, PAPAL TEXTS, PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY

MAUNDY THURSDAY, April 1


Extreme right: St Bruno of Chartreuse and St Hugh.
ST. HUGUES (Hugh) DE GRENOBLE (France 1052-1132), Bishop, Reformer


OR today.


Illustration: Washing of the feet, from a 13th-cent. Syrian evangelarium.
At the General Audience, the Holy Father explains the significance of the Easter Triduum liturgies:
'The days that orient our life'
Other Page 1 stories: An essay on the washing of the feet in the Syro-occidental tradition; G20 nations urged to consider global financial reform when they meet next in Toronto; the world's largest particle accelerator successfully fires off at European nuclear researh center (CERN) in Geneva.


THE POPE'S DAY

Mass of the Chrism at St. Peter's Basilica

Mass of the Last Supper at St. John Lateran