"This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the LORD. For on this same night I will go through Egypt. But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you. This day shall be a memorial feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to the LORD, as a perpetual institution." (Ex 11:10-12:14)
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The Passover is the ritual celebration of the liberation from slavery. Saint Paul sees the fulfillment of the Passover in the Eucharist where we proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. As Paul says: For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth (1 Cor 5:7-8).
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Friday XV, Ordinary Time
