What if I told you that you could be present at the Last Supper with Jesus and his disciples? That’s what happens at every mass, and helps us understand the true meaning of #remembrance.
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Holy Thursday’s readings share Jesus’s Last Supper, where he institutes the Holy Eucharist. Jesus asks his disciples to do this in remembrance of Him. More than merely thinking back to something, remembrance means transcending time and space to be made present again at that event. The Jewish people believed that they were made present at the Passover event with their ancestors as they prepared to escape the tyranny of the Egyptians. The Last Supper is the new Passover, and in remembrance, we transcend space and time to be made present again at Jesus’s Last Supper at every mass.
Listen to Saint Paul’s 1st Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians:
Brothers and sisters:
I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,
that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,
took bread, and, after he had given thanks,
broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me."
In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Jesus our Savior – you offer nothing less than yourself in the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. Help our spirit of remembrance, appreciating that we transcend space and time to be seated with you at the Last Supper in every mass. Amen.