Pope washes the feet of non-katolic prisoners

After a brief meeting with sick prisoners, the pope held the Last Evening Meal Mass and the ritual of foot washing with 12 prisoners from seven different countries in Regina Coel Prison this afternoon.

“Everyone is likely to change lives and not be tried”, the pope underlined that he considered himself to be “a fisherman “, in a sermon aired by Radio Vatican.

In Christian tradition, holy Thursday commemorates the day when Christ washed the feet of his apostles and created Eucharistia during the Last Evening Meal.

It is about an important moment of the holy week that commemorates the last days of Jesus Christ, is followed by the Fathers.

For me, to visit the sick, to go to prison, to make the prisoners feel that they have hope of rehabilitation, this is the preaching of the Church”, Pope Francis stressed in a recent book of interviews.

Last year, during holy Thursday, the pope washed the feet of repentant prisoners, particularly former mafias, in a prison in southern Rome.