Tonight....Holy Thursday...Just Marvelous!

Every Catholic Church remains open tonight after Mass some til midnight and others overnight..with a side altar or different location in the church highly decorated with flowers which have not been part of our 40 days of Lent....the Blessed Bread,  which we believe becomes Jesus at Mass exactly as done at the Last Supper, is put in a special Tabernacle and we come and spend time with Jesus privately..in deep silence...loving and thanking Him for leaving us This Gift of Himself that fortifies us in ways we cannot even totally understand.  An old tradition was to go to 7 churches to visit Him late on Holy Thursday night...some still do this...taking in the various decor and reminders of Who and What this Mystery really is.  i love Holy Thursday...i love what happens after the Mass...i love the quiet encounter with the Living God....

If you can, try to stop in a Catholic Church...in many if you choose during this vigil that we stand watch with Him as we prepare to walk the steps of His Death and Resurrection.

The beauty and mysticism of our church is very conducive to deep prayer....tonight..."This is My Body...This is My Blood....He breathed on them....Do this in Remembrance.....be the servant of all"...candles, flowers, incense, side altar Tabernacle, deep silence, music, The Gloria sung by Angels at His Birth sung tonight after 40 days of not singing it, the Holy Oils (chrism) for Baptism, Confirmation and Anointing of the Sick processed into each Catholic Church blessed during the Mass of Chrism which was held this week in the Archdiocese Cathedral with all the priests and bishops...

"O Come let us Adore HIM...Christ The Lord!"

Luke 22:14-20
The Last Supper.14When the hour came, he took his place at table with the apostles.15He said to them, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,16for, I tell you, I shall not eat it [again] until there is fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”17Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and said, “Take this and share it among yourselves;18for I tell you [that] from this time on I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”19Then he took the bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me.”20And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will be shed for you.

THE EUCHARIST, THE LAST SUPPER
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• To understand the role of paradosis/tradition in the oral transmission of revelation.
• To study the Council of Jerusalem, described in the 15^th chapter of The Acts of the Apostles and its role in the development of doctrine in the conciliar movement in the Church.
• To understand the revelation, doctrinal development and practice of the sacramental life in the history of the Church.
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• To study the revelation and development of hierarchical authority in the Church.
• To understand the hierarchy of truths in the Church as well as the role of private devotion and personal growth in holiness.

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til next time...Blessed and Fruitful Holy Thursday....praying always for you!