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Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday or Great and Holy Thursday), is the Christian feast or holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter that commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles.
On this day four events are commemorated: the washing of the Disciples' Feet by Jesus Christ, the institution of the Mystery of the Holy Eucharist at the Last Supper, the agony of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, and the betrayal of Christ by Judas Iscariot.
The Chrism mess is celebrated in cathedrals.
Chrism (Greek word literally meaning "an anointing"), also called "Myrrh" (Myron), Holy anointing oil or "Consecrated Oil," is a consecrated oil used in the Roman Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Old-Catholic churches, and some Anglican and Lutheran churches in the administration of certain sacraments and ecclesiastical functions.
Pure or scented olive oil, although typically not called chrism today, has been called chrism in the past, including oil used by Protestants and Restorationists in some forms of Baptism, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick and foot washing. In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Mormons, chrism was historically used in some of their temple ordinances.
Multiple early Christian documents discuss the "ordinance" or "several ceremonies...explained in the Apostolical Constitutions" of "chrism," including documents by Theophilus and Tertullian. The most detailed version of the practice is by Cyril of Jerusalem who details how ointment or oil was "symbolically applied to thy forehead, and thy other organs of sense" and that the "ears, nostrils, and breast were each to be anointed." Cyril states that the "ointment is the seal of the covenants" of baptism and God’s promises to the Christian who is anointed. Cyril taught that being "anointed with the Holy anointing oil [Chrism] of God" was the sign of a Christian (Christos means "anointed"), and a physical representation of having the Gift of the Holy Spirit (Holy Ghost), and it retains this meaning in Catholicism and Orthodoxy today. He say's; "Having been counted worthy of this Holy Chrism, ye are called Christians, verifying the name also by your new birth. For before you were deemed worthy of this grace, ye had properly no right to this title, but were advancing on your way towards being Christians."
Maundy Thursday is the first day of Easter Triduum, Holy Triduum, or Paschal Triduum...


Krzyżmo - mieszanina oliwy z oliwek i balsamu, używana do namaszczania przy udzielaniu sakramentów chrztu, bierzmowania, święceń kapłańskich, konsekracji biskupów oraz przy konsekracji kościołów i ołtarzy . Krzyżmo święte jest poświęcane przez biskupa razem z olejem chorych i olejem katechumenów podczas mszy Krzyżma Świętego w Wielki Czwartek. Mszał Rzymski przewiduje dwie modlitwy konsekracji krzyżma świętego, a każda z nich składa się z dwóch części. Pierwsza część ma charakter anaforyczny, czyli wychwalający dzieła Pana Boga w historii zbawienia, prowadzącej do Osoby i wydarzenia Jezusa Chrystusa. Druga część stanowi prośbę o charakterze epikletycznym, czyli przywołuje zstąpienie mocy Bożej dla uświęcenia oleju.
Msza Krzyżma Świętego, nazywana również Mszą Olejów, jest sprawowana w Wielki Czwartek przed południem przez biskupa w katedrze, gdzie gromadzą się kapłani z całej diecezji, aby sprawować liturgię razem ze swoim ordynariuszem. W czasie tej Mszy Świętej biskup błogosławi oleje chorych i katechumenów oraz poświęca krzyżmo.