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This is the first day of the azimes or feast of the unleavened bread.
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At sunset the Jews must eat the past in Jerusalem.
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Jesus is still in Bethany, but he will return to the city before the hour for the Paschal
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The law commands this, and until he has abrogated the law by the shedding of his blood, he wishes
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to observe its ordinances.
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He therefore sends two of his disciples to get everything ready for the Pasch, without
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however telling them the great mystery wherewith it is to terminate.
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We who know that at this last supper was instituted the sacrament of the Eucharist, can understand
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why he sends Peter and John, in preference to any of the other disciples, to prepare
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Peter who was the first to confess the divinity of Jesus represents faith, and John who
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leaned upon the breast of the man God represents love.
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The mystery which is to be instituted at tonight's supper is revealed to love by faith.
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It is this that Jesus would have us learn from his choice of the two apostles, but they
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themselves see not the intention of their master.
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Jesus, who knows all things, tells them by what sign they are to know the house which
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he intends to honor with his presence.
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They have but to follow a man whom they will see carrying a picture of water.
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The house to which this man is going belongs to a rich Jew who recognizes Jesus as the
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The two apostles apprise him of their master's wishes, and immediately he puts at their
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disposal a large and richly furnished room.
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It was fitting that the place where the most august mystery was to be instituted should
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be something above the common.
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This room where the reality was to be substituted for all the ancient figures was far superior
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to the temple of Jerusalem.
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Then it was to be erected the first altar for the offering up of the clean oblation
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foretold by the prophet Malachi.
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In it was to commence the Christian priesthood.
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In it finally, fifty days later on, the Church of Christ collected together and visited
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by the Holy Ghost was to make herself known to the world and promulgate the new and universal
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covenant of God with men.
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This favorite sanctuary of our faith is still venerated on Mount Zion.
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The infidels have profainted by their false worship for even they look on it as a sacred
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But as though divine providence which has mercifully preserved unto us so many traces
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of our Redeemer would give us an earnest of better days to come, this venerable sanctuary
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has recently been thrown open to several priests of the Church, and they have even been
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permitted to offer up the Holy Sacrifice in the very place where the Holy Eucharist
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During the course of the day, Jesus has entered Jerusalem with the rest of his disciples.
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He has found all things prepared.
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The Paschal Lamb after being first presented in the temple has been brought to the house
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where Jesus is to celebrate the supper.
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It is prepared together with the wild lettuce and the unleavened bread.
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In a few hours, the divine master and his disciples will be standing around the table,
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their loins girt, and staves in their hands.
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And for the last time, they will observe the solemn right prescribed by God to his people
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when they first went forth from Egypt.
