The Lord's Supper and the Passover Meal (Jewish Seder)
While I was writing a Bible Workshop article for the Feast of Corpus Christi, I came across certain blogs written by Jewish Rabbis on the Last Supper. I was searching the web for articles on the Passover meal as Jesus and his companions would have had it, and I did find one: a reconstruction based on the Pesachim and -- get this -- performed by a congregation of Christians. The article is called "Passover in the Time of Jesus" At first, I thought that the article reflected an academic exercise where students of theology had an experience of a reconstruction of the Last Supper. But it appears that Christian congregations in the States (it seems) are having these reconstructed "seders" as part of their celebrations of the Lord's Supper.
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He is Seated at the Right Hand of God
Since the Ascension God's plan has entered into its fulfillment. We are already at "the last hour". "Already the final age of the world is with us, and the renewal of the world is irrevocably under way; it is even now anticipated in a certain real way, for the Church on earth is endowed already with a sanctity that is real but imperfect." Christ's kingdom already manifests its presence through the miraculous signs that attend its proclamation by the Church. (CCC 670)
From the depths of Hades, the Lord moved upwards to the land of the living and beyond that to the right hand of the Father where He is now seated in glory "far above the principalities and powers", as Paul would say. "From there, He will come again to judge the living and the dead", we say as we profess the Creed. The Ascension of the Lord makes us look forward to His second coming and assures us of the glory that awaits us. In sum, we are already winners. That thought should make us more generous, more loving and caring in a world that gives us more reason to be selfish, unloving and uncaring. We know that the world is passing, that it does not have the last word. The last word belongs to the Lord; and He does not lie.
Augustinian Friars in the News
The Lancaster Diocese has a new bishop, and he is an Augustinian Friar: the Rev. Michael Campbell, OSA. He has been coadjutor bishop for the Diocese since March 2008. He takes over from Bishop Patrick O'Donohue who has retired. More news from a Zenit press release here.
In the meanwhile, the Augustinian friars who have been working in the Monsignor Bonner High School (Delaware, USA) are preparing for their departure from the campus they have served since 1953. The author of the news item from DelcoTimes writes that the reason is due to the dwindling number of friars in the Province of Villanova:
With 213 priests and brothers in the order — and just more than 100 who are involved in full-time active ministry — the order was spread too thin between various parishes, high schools, Villanova University, Merrimack College and a variety of ministries stretching from Massachusetts to Florida, Esposito said. The order (read="the Province of Villanova") also has missions in Peru, South Africa and Japan.
Read more about it at DelcoTimes Staff writer Timothy Logue did a good job on this piece as he describes the reactions of students and parents to the departure of the friars.
Related Websites:
- Bonner High (http://www.bonnerhigh.com )
- Bonner Alumni (http://www.bonneralumni.com)
- Province of St. Thomas of Villanova (http://www.augustinian.org)
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Jesus Enters Jerusalem (Mark 11:1-10)
Passion Sunday nears. Once more we will be re-enacting Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem with the waving of palm branches. Below is an illustration of how Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem connects with the account of his Passion and Death. (Click on the graphic for a bigger view.)
An article on Mark 11:1–10 — the Gospel selection for this Sunday’s re-enactment — is found here. The article on the Passion Narrative in Mark is found here.
PREX and Other Things
Last Sunday we saw fourteen new graduates from our Parish Renewal Experience. Together with this new group, four others who finished our first BEC Ministry Training Program also received their diplomas. These will undergo further training as they begin their work in the ministry. The advanced training module these four new BEC leaders will undergo will emphasize on the Scriptures as something read, meditated on and lived. Several months ago I wrote an article on Sentence Flows for our other BEC leaders. I posted it at AngFrayle.NET, but because the website had to be deactivated (hard times, you know), I have reposted the article here. With this article, I also modified the post on the “Eye-Ear/Heart/Hands-Feet Metaphor” which I have been trying to develop during these past years. The modification is minor in that I corrected a link that used to point to a section of the now defunct AngFrayle website. It now points to AgustinongPinoy where one can see it explained in a series of web pages.
