April 13, 2017: Maundy Thursday

We remember on this day the New Covenant that Christ instituted at the Last Supper, a meal celebrating Passover, of the Old Covenant, when the people of God were freed from slavery.  There at that table, He granted the priesthood to His Apostles, and the Eucharist to His Church, by which we are joined to Christ in His death and Resurrection, and are set free from sin.  In this New Covenant, He grants us a new command, to love one another.  As John writes, Christ, in the fullness of the glory of God the Father, stooped down to wash feet, as a sign of the love He shows us in giving of Himself, and the love we are now to show one another in this new way of life.