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Hey there, Sprouts.

Today is Monday, March 29th, 2021.

Today is also Monday of Holy Week.

Now, all week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are going to be meditating on the very last day of Jesus Christ's earthly life. Now, just to be clear, we're going to be using the Jewish understanding of when a day started and when a day ended. Now, if you were a Jew, you would know and believe that a day ended at sunset and the next day began. They

weren't like us where everything revolved around midnight. So when the sun was going down,

you would know that one day was ending and another was beginning. So with this understanding,

we can see that the Last Supper and the events in the agony that happened in the agony of the

garden through the trial, the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ,

all occurred during his last day of his earthly life. Of course, he would die and be risen from the

dead, but he would be in a different glorified form then. So today, we are going to talk about what happened right after sunset,

which is the last supper. And all week we're going to talk about what happened and we're going to

talk about why, why this is so important and what it means for us today. So the first thing that happened at the last

supper was the first mass. Christ gathered his closest followers around him. They went up to an

upper room and they celebrated the Passover meal, which is something handed down to them from Moses that they celebrate God's saving

the Israelite nation from slavery in Egypt. But Christ did it a little bit differently. He broke

bread and he made it clear to them that this was a memorial and that this bread was no longer bread. It was now

his body and the wine was his blood. Now what can be confusing sometimes is that not all of the

gospels include the words of this first mass. And do you know why this is? It's because the

Gospels weren't the first thing written about Christ and this first mass. In fact, St. Paul

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