The Sacred Triduum, extending from the evening of Maundy Thursday to the Easter Vigil, is best understood not as three separate observances but as a single, continuous liturgical act. In these days, the Church recalls the events of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection, and participates in them through the Church’s fullest expression of anamnesis: the making-present of the paschal mystery in word and sacrament. Maundy Thursday begins with a liturgy of striking theological density. The Mandatum, rooted in Christ’s command in John 13, is a sign of incorporation into the self-giving love that finds its fullest expression in the Eucharist. The institution of the Blessed Sacrament is not treated as a past event but as a present reality: Christ gives himself, here and now, under the forms of bread and wine. Any reduction of the Eucharist to symbolic remembrance diminishes the force of the liturgy. The translation of the Sacrament...