Pope Leo XIV will celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday in the Basilica of St John Lateran, where he will wash the feet of 12 Roman priests in a return to a more customary papal practice at the start of the Sacred Triduum.
The Vicariate of Rome confirmed the arrangements in a statement issued on April 1, identifying the clergy who will take part in the Mandatum during the “In Coena Domini” liturgy, which is due to begin at 5.30pm. Eleven of the priests were ordained last year by the Pope himself, while the twelfth, Don Renzo Chiesa, serves as spiritual director of the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary.
