Russia's Catholics join Easter Triduum in

As reported by RIA Novosti on Wednesday rector of the Moscow cathedral priest Joseph Zanevsky, the main worship the Easter Triduum headed the Archdiocese of Ordinary Mother of God, Archbishop Paul Pezzi. On Thursday, the Mass will begin at 19.30 MSK. In the days of the early Church on Holy Thursday were three masses: Mass for Reconciliation (Missa pro reconciliatione), Mass Consecration peace and blessings of oil (Missa chrismatis) and memories of the Last Supper Mass (Missa ad vesperum). On this day, took in ecclesiastical communion publicly repentant sinners, so called Maundy Thursday "Thursday reconciliation." Name of the Mass of consecration peace and blessings of oil due to the fact that along with the blessing of peace during the service conducted a blessing of oil and oil patients disclosed. Oil is used for patients with extreme unction, the oil catechumens – anointing catechumens at the time the sacrament of baptism. This mass is served only once a year – Maundy Thursday, and performed only by the bishop. But the Russian bishops are allowed to transfer it to an earlier time that by Thursday the priests would get in their parishes. On Thursday evening, performed the rite, which happens once a year – the church tradition a bishop or priest washes the feet of 12 laymen in remembrance of how the Last Supper before Christ washed the feet of his disciples. This ritual, called «Mandatum», was circulated at an early medieval monastic communities in the West, and then moved into the liturgy. Unlike the Russian Orthodox Church, where the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill wash the feet of the priests in the Catholic church for this purpose invited the laity. During the singing of the hymn "Glory to God on Thursday, the last time will be played organ and all the bells, which" shut up "until Easter. On Holy Thursday Mass consecrated a large number of gifts that they had enough on Good Friday, when the Messiah does not occur. Since the XI century, these gifts are not placed in the sacristy, and in one of the chapels of the temple to worship him after mass. The transfer of gifts that takes place during a solemn procession after Mass, symbolizes the conclusion of Christ in prison. Then removed from the altar candlesticks, crosses and the veil, which symbolizes the removal of clothes from the warriors of Christ before His crucifixion. On Holy Thursday in the Latin rite there pious tradition of all-night vigil in front of Christ, to imprisonment.