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Maundy Thursday (or le mandé; Thursday of the Mandatum, Latin, commandment). The name is taken from the first few words sung at the ceremony of the washing of the feet, "I give you a new commandment" (John 13:34); also from the commandment of Christ that we should imitate His loving humility in the washing of the feet (John 13:5). The term mandatum (maundy), therefore, was applied to the rite of foot-washing on this day.
If at once, of every article of furniture and each household vessel, you name some god of the world as the originator, well I must recognise Christ, both as He reclines on a couch, and when He presents a basin for the feet of His disciples, and when He pours water into it from a ewer, and when he is girt about with a linen towel - a garment specially sacred to Osiris. [...] we use along with others these articles [...].
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