The Last Supper

Traditionally, today marks the anniversary of Jesus’s last dinner with his friends, the evening before being arrested and killed. After the big Passover meal, he diverted from the usual rituals to lay new meaning on top of this major Jewish feast. The regular re-enacting of this is what Christians call Communion or Mass or the Eucharist.

In a very physical way Jesus established a way to remember him and how he identified with broken humanity. With very ordinary things (daily bread and wine were staples in the Mediterranean diet) Jesus communicated the deep spiritual truth that God is covenanted to us - eternally committed in guaranteed love.

As you read perhaps the very earliest words that Christians wrote down, take some time to ponder what Jesus is saying to you today. Let the physicality of it sink in. Let the eternal spirituality of it sink in. Let your mind wander and wonder on what this means for how God relates to you, even in this season of quarantine.

For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. - 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

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