{"id":88519,"date":"2026-04-02T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=88519"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:56:52","slug":"the-catholic-faithful-are-participants-in-the-mass-not-spectators-teaches-pope-leo-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/04\/02\/the-catholic-faithful-are-participants-in-the-mass-not-spectators-teaches-pope-leo-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic faithful are participants in the Mass, not spectators, teaches Pope Leo -VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Leo XIV\u2019s homily during the Mass of the Lord\u2019s Supper on Holy Thursday emphasized the profound meaning of Christ\u2019s love, which is fully given in the Eucharist and in the gesture of the washing of the feet. The pope invited the faithful not to experience the liturgy simply as spectators, but as active participants in the commemoration of the Last Supper\u2014there Jesus becomes our nourishment and reveals a love \u201cto the extreme,\u201d even amid evil and human frailty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his reflection, he clarified that the washing of the feet is not merely a moral example, but a concrete manifestation of God\u2019s way of acting: a love that serves, kneels, and gives itself fully. Against the logic of power and success, the Pope stressed that true divine greatness is expressed in humility and service, dismantling false images of a distant or utilitarian God. In this sense, he called on the faithful to allow themselves to be transformed by this gesture and to learn to love by following Christ\u2019s example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Leo XIV\u2019s homily during the Mass of the Lord\u2019s Supper on Holy Thursday emphasized the profound meaning of Christ\u2019s love, which is fully given in the Eucharist and in the gesture of the washing of the feet. The pope invited the faithful not to experience the liturgy simply as spectators, but as active participants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":88520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fWBseQRbd9E","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bncomelialavanda.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bncomelialavanda.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88524,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88519\/revisions\/88524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}