Chapter 5: the Last Supper

Msgr. Anthony Figueiredo of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum offers us this reflection on this pivotal event in Jesus' life and the life of the Church and on what Pope Benedict is telling us in his new book on Jesus of Nazareth. In it, the Pope dedicates 42 pages to this one event, examining the date of the Last Supper, the Institution of the Eucharist, the Theology of the words of Institution, and "from the Last Supper to the Sunday morning Eucharist"...