Pope Benedict Focuses on Mystery of Judas' Betrayal

(13 Apr 06 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI revived a Maundy Thursday tradition by celebrating the Mass of the Lord's Supper in the Basilica of St. John Lateran. In recent years, because of his ill health, Pope John Paul II had celebrated this Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.
Now, Benedict XVI, as Bishop of Rome, has returned to his cathedral across town to commemorate the Last Supper, in which Jesus instituted the sacraments of the Eucharist and holy orders.
In his homily at the Mass of the Lord's Supper, Benedict XVI assured the faithful that the mystery of Judas consists precisely in his rejection of God's love.
Judas Iscariot personifies "treacherous man," for whom money, power and success are more important than love and he does not hesitate to sell Jesus, the Pope said at the Mass on the evening of Holy Thursday.
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