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From The Priests Desk:

An Easter message from Fr. John William

Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Year C. Opening Prayer:

God our Father,
We are gathered here to share in the Supper
Which your only Son left to the Church to reveal his love.
He gave it to us when he was about to die
And commanded us to celebrate it as the new and eternal sacrifice.
We pray that in this Eucharist
We may find the fulness of love and life.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
One God, forever and ever, Amen.

Catechism Quote of the Week:

The Institution of the Eucharist

CCC 1337: “The Lord, having loved those who were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing that the hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father, in the course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the commandment of love. In order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and to make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and Resurrection and commanded his apostles to celebrate it until his return; “thereby he constituted them priests of the New Testament.”

CCC 1338: “The three synoptic Gospels and St. Paul have handed on to us the account of the institution of the Eucharist; St. John, for his part, reports the words of Jesus in the synagogue of Capernaum that prepare for the institution of the Eucharist: Christ calls himself the bread of life, come down from heaven.”

CCC 1339: “Jesus chose the time of Passover to fulfill what he had announced at Capernaum: giving his disciples his Body and his Blood: ‘Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us, that we may eat it….” They went … and prepared the Passover. and when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him. and he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you I shall not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”…. and he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” and likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the New Covenant in my blood.’”

CCC 1340: “By celebrating the Last Supper with his apostles in the course of the Passover meal, Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning. Jesus’ passing over to his father by his death and Resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in the Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the Church in the glory of the kingdom.”

“Do this in Memory of Me”

CCC 1341: “The command of Jesus to repeat his actions and words “until he comes” does not only ask us to remember Jesus and what he did. It is directed at the liturgical celebration, by the apostles and their successors, of the memorial of Christ, of his life, of his death, of his Resurrection, and of his intercession in the presence of the Father.”

CCC 1342: “From the beginning the Church has been faithful to the Lord’s command. of the Church of Jerusalem it is written: ‘They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers…. Day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they partook of food with glad and generous hearts.’”

CCC 1343: “It was above all on “the first day of the week,” Sunday, the day of Jesus’ resurrection, that the Christians met “to break bread.” From that time on down to our own day the celebration of the Eucharist has been continued so that today we encounter it everywhere in the Church with the same fundamental structure. It remains the center of the Church’s life.

CCC 1344: “Thus from celebration to celebration, as they proclaim the Paschal mystery of Jesus “until he comes,” the pilgrim People of God advances, “following the narrow way of the cross,” toward the heavenly banquet, when all the elect will be seated at the table of the kingdom.”

Catechism of the Catholic Church, Number 1337-1344.