Wherever in the world Catholics may be preparing to celebrate Easter, their thoughts
and prayers will go to the Holy Land, the land of Christ’s birth. In order to help
us enter into this season’s mysteries, what better place to go than to Jerusalem –
the city of the Lord’s Passion, death and Resurrection? Fr. David Neuhaus, the
Patriarchal Vicar for Hebrew speaking Catholics there, takes us on Holy Thursday to
the cenacle – the room of the Last Supper where the sacrament of the Eucharist was
first instituted, and then on to the Garden of Olives... Listen to his reflection: