seal off the sanctuary area as a polished and exclusive arena for clerical liturgical action.—Peter Feuerherd

On this Holy Thursday:  “If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet” (John 13:14).  As for the Faithful putting up with new hot-shot priests:  “Our blessing-cup is a communion with the Blood of Christ” (cf. 1 Corinthians 10:16).  “This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution” (Exodus 12:14).  Liturgy of the Word, Reading 39ABC, Holy Thursday:  Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper.

Spend less time worrying about the inner workings of the Church & more time taking the Gospel to the peripheries.—Bjohn.  In other words, pay-pray-and-obey.  Nuts.