{"id":212,"date":"2013-03-28T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/holy-week-holy-thursday\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:26:35","slug":"holy-week-holy-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/holy-week-holy-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week: Holy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: purple; text-align: center;\">\n<b>&#8220;While they were<br \/>\neating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it,  and giving it to<br \/>\n  his disciples said, &#8220;Take and eat; this is my body.&#8221;  Then he took a<br \/>\ncup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, &#8220;Drink  from it, all of<br \/>\nyou, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be  shed on behalf<br \/>\n  of many for the forgiveness of sins.&#8221; (Matthew 26:26-28)&nbsp;<\/b><\/div>\n<p>\nOn  this night, Jesus celebrated the Passover seder with His disciples.<br \/>\nAn  important day for all Christians&#8211;the day Christ tells us of the new<br \/>\n and  everlasting covenant. For Catholics, this holds an additional<br \/>\nsignificance: The institution of the Eucharist, the &#8220;source and summit&#8221;<br \/>\n of the faith, which is Christ&#8217;s Body and Blood.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s  reflect today on the blood of the new covenant. By His stripes we<br \/>\n are  healed. By His blood we are redeemed. By His resurrection, we are<br \/>\nsaved  from death. As we walk into tomb with Him, we have a reason to<br \/>\ncelebrate!<\/p>\n<p>Catholics, let&#8217;s also ask for the graces we  need to truly believe in<br \/>\nChrist&#8217;s presence in the Eucharist and to  approach the altar with<br \/>\nreverence and awe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While they were eating, Jesus took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and giving it to his disciples said, &#8220;Take and eat; this is my body.&#8221; Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, &#8220;Drink from it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}