Rome Newsroom, Apr 14, 2022 / 11:54 am
Pope Francis washed the feet of prisoners on Thursday as he celebrated the Mass of the Lord’s Supper at a prison outside Rome.
The pope offered the Mass on April 14 in Civitavecchia, a port city around 50 miles northwest of Rome. Local media reported that he arrived at the prison at about 4 p.m. Rome time in a white Fiat 500L.
The Holy See press office said that the pope preached in the prison chapel on the day’s Gospel reading (John 13:1-15), which describes how Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.
In an off-the-cuff homily, Pope Francis described Christ’s action as “a strange thing” in this world: “Jesus washing the feet of the traitor, the one who sells him.”