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On Holy Thursday morning, our Church celebrates the foundation of the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist by the Son and Word of God during the Mystical Supper with His Disciples. Christ takes bread and wine in His hands. He blesses and distributes them to His disciples.
On the evening of Holy Thursday, we experience the timeline of astonishing events of our Lord’s arrest, condemnation, and Crucifixion. In the twelve Gospel passages we read today, we see and hear Christ agonizing, betrayed, arrested, abandoned by His disciples, imprisoned, mocked. He is hit, He is whipped, He is put on trial, He is made to carry a heavy cross, He is crucified and dies on the Cross. The lamb of God humbly bends to the will of God. The Son, in complete obedience to the Father, willingly sheds His blood in order to grant life to the world. He stretches out his hands on the Cross and embraces all of us. We are all received by the One who is without sin. Christ, as the new Adam, takes upon Himself the sin of the old Adam. (from Department of Religious Education)
