THE EUCHARIST IS A SACRIFICE (part -2)

SACRIFICE ATONES FOR SIN. Our ancestors in faith offered many sacrifices to express their remorse and devotion; of all sacrificial offerings, the greatest, most important one is the Passover meal. Our Jewish sisters and brothers are still mystically joined to Moses and the Israelites as they were freed from slavery in Egypt by joining each year in a sacrificial meal of unleavened bread, an unblemished lamb, whose roasted flesh was eaten, and whose blood was used to mark the doors of their home so the avenging Angel of Death would ‘pass over’ them. This was probably the meal Jesus and the Apostles celebrated at the Last Supper – which Jesus radically ‘altered.’ (to be continued…) Father Maria Joseph Kodiganti