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Show !ISTll GIBES OBSERVING HOLY WEEK Yesterday was Maundy Thursday, , a day in the calendar of the Christian church which calls the faithful to remember re-member the commandment, Latin mandatum, from which the wonl Maunday is derived, of the Lord Calling Call-ing his disciples to love one another. ,On this day It is customary In St. ) Peter's at Home to carry through litcr-'ally litcr-'ally the ceremony of washing the feel of twelve aged men In obedience to the , spirit of the Christ who at the close of a tiring day washed the Teet of His Disciples thorebv showing them how he who would be thechiefest among 'men must consent to be the lowliest ot all and' the observance of the "Last Supper". Today is Good Friday, the day on which the Christian church throughout through-out the whole world calls to mind the sufferings and death of Him who died to save all men from their sins. In the Roman and Episcopal churches church-es it is customery to hold the services of " the hours" in which meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ are spoken to the people assembled. Holy Week closes with the celebration celebra-tion of Easier Day when the conquest of the Lord' Christ over sin and the grave is observed in all Christian churches. no |