The festival was organised by the Churches' Millennium Office to coincide with the Pentecost, when Jesus' disciples joined together for a feast in Jerusalem shortly after Christ's ascension.
The church's reasoning is that, as all of Jesus's disciples were men, only men can be priests.
That's the whole point behind Jesus washing the disciples' feet.
The traditional liturgical language of both Assyrian and Chaldean Churches is Syriac - a derivative of Aramaic, the language thought to have been spoken by Jesus and his disciples.
Just because Jesus chose the 12 disciples it doesn't mean that everything should be done by men.
Consider the account in Luke's gospel about two disciples of Jesus, just days after his crucifixion, fleeing Jerusalem for their home in nearby Emmaus.
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The holiday is celebrated across Europe but while in Scotland, Greece and Romania the saint (one of Jesus's 12 disciples) is honoured in church prayers, pubs or even with a bank holiday, in some remote western Ukrainian villages people will be throwing a boot over a rooftop and whispering chants in candlelight to find a husband or a wife.
The act of foot-washing is part of the Christian tradition that mirrors Jesus' washing of his disciples' feet.
The act of foot-washing at the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday is part of the Christian tradition that mirrors Jesus' washing of his disciples' feet.
Jesus spoke in parables, his disciples didn't - they preached about him and they told it straight.
But Vatican Radio carried the Mass live, and Francis told the detainees that Jesus washed the feet of his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion in a gesture of love and service.
The pontiff told inmates that Jesus had washed the feet of his disciples in a gesture of service, Vatican Radio reported.
Meanwhile, Jesus struggles with his decision to face martyrdom in order to save his disciples, including Mary Magdalene (the lovely Chilina Kennedy).
Jesus meets a Samaritan woman at a well and shocks both her and the disciples by treating her with open dignity and respect in a public place.
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Although he respects Jesus for promoting peace and love, he finds the character portrayed in the Gospels too glib and condescending to his disciples.
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