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Last Supper not a Seder

Catena Aurea contra Seder Claims

BEDE; When the rites of the old Passover were finished, He passed to the new, in order, that is, to substitute the Sacrament  of His own Body and Blood, for the flesh and blood of the lamb. Wherefore there follows: And as they did eat, Jesus took bread; that is, in order to show that He Himself is that person to who the Lord swore, You are a Priest for ever after the order of  Melchizedec. There follows: And blessed, and broke it.

BEDE; This may be also taken literally, for from the hour of  supper up to the time of resurrection He was about to drink  no wine. Afterwards He partook both of meat and drink, as Peter
 testifies, Who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

BEDE; Having finished the rites of the old Passover, He passes on to the new, which He desires the Church to celebrate in memory of His redemption, substituting for the flesh and blood of the lamb, the Sacrament of His own Flesh and Blood in the figure of the bread and wine, being made a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech. …

BEDE; For this reason then the Apostles communicated after  supper, because it was necessary that the typical passover should
 be first completed, and then they should pass on to the Sacrament of the true Passover. But now in honor of so great a Sacrament, 
the masters of the Church think right that we should first be  refreshed with the spiritual banquet, and afterward with the 
earthly


THEOPHYL. But how is our Lord said to sit down, whereas  the Jews eat the Passover standing?



Catena Aurea Last Supper/First Mass



Matthew:

JEROME; When the typical Passover was concluded, and He had partaken of the Lamb with His Apostles, He comes to the true paschal sacrament; that, as Melchisedech, Priest of the most high God, had done in foreshadowing Christ, offering bread and wine, He also should offer the present verity of His Body and Blood.

Mark

BEDE; When the rites of the old Passover were finished, He passed to the new, in order, that is, to substitute the Sacrament of His own Body and Blood, for the flesh and blood of the lamb. Wherefore there follows: And as they did eat, Jesus took bread; that is, in order to show that He Himself is that person to whom the Lord swore, You are a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedec. There follows: And blessed, and broke it. 


Luke 

THEOPHYL. But how is our Lord said to sit down, whereas the Jews eat the Passover standing? They say, that when they had eaten the legal Passover, they sat down according to the common custom, to eat their other food.

 It follows, And he said to them, With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you, &c. 

CYRIL; He says this, because the covetous disciple was looking out for the time for betraying Him; but that he might not betray Him before the feast of the Passover, our Lord had not divulged either the house, or the man with whom He should keep the Passover. That this was the cause is very evident from these words. 

THEOPHYL. Or He says, With desire have I desired; as if to say, This is My last supper with you, therefore it is most precious and welcome to Me; just as those who are going away to a distance, utter the last words to their friends most affectionately. 

CHRYS. Or He says this, because after that Passover the Cross was at hand. But we find Him frequently prophesying of His own Passion, and desiring it to take place. 

BEDE; He first then desires to eat the typical Passover, and so to declare the mysteries of His Passion to the world.

EUSEB. Or else; When our Lord was celebrating the new Passover, He fitly said, With desire have I desired this Passover, that is, the new mystery of the New Testament which He gave to His disciples, and which many prophets and righteous men desired before Him. He then also Himself thirsting for the common salvation, delivered this mystery, to suffice for the whole world. But the Passover was ordained by Moses to be celebrated in one place, that is, in Jerusalem. Therefore it was not adapted for the whole world, and so was not desired. 

EPIPH. Hereby we may refute the folly of the Ebionites concerning the eating of flesh, seeing that our Lord eats the Passover of the Jews. Therefore He pointedly said, "This Passover" that no one might transfer it to mean another.

BEDE; Thus then was our Lord the approver of the legal Passover; and as He taught that it related to the figure of His own dispensation, He forbids it henceforth to be represented in the flesh. 

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 It is fairly well conceded by authorities that the Seder was composed after Titus destroyed Jerusalem - 70 A.D. - and so it could not have been a Seder  that Jesus and His Apostles were celebrating. 


Jesus and His Apostles did not celebrate and Jesus and Mary and His Apostles and their wives were not in attendance as written on the modernist monument erected on the mountain of Malarkey

 The Seder (Order) Meal was developed by Rabbinical Judaism after Titus had
 destroyed the City of Deicide as this Jewish author states:


Almost everyone doing serious work on the early history of Passover traditions, including Joseph Tabory, Israel Yuval, Lawrence Hoffman, and the
father-son team of Shmuel and Ze’ev Safrai, has rejected Finkelstein’s claims for the great antiquity of the bulk of the Passover Haggadah. 


What is particularly significant about this consensus is that these scholars are not
radical skeptics. These scholars believe that, generally speaking, we can extract historically reliable information from rabbinic sources. But as
demonstrated by the late Baruch Bokser in his book The Origins of the Seder, practically everything preserved in the early rabbinic traditions concerning the Passover Seder brings us back to the time immediately following the
Roman destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E.


 It’s not that rabbinic literature cannot be trusted to tell us about history in the first century
of the Common Era. It’s that rabbinic literature—in the case of the Seder—does not even claim to be telling us how the Seder was performed
before the destruction of the Temple.

 http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/jesus-historical-jesus/was-jesus-last-supper-a-seder/#end02




Further background

 http://tinyurl.com/kvtv5u6

 http://judaism.about.com/od/passover/a/seder_golinkin.htm


 What we do know from Catholic Tradition is that Jesus did not just lead His Apostles in the celebration of a meal but a passover meal followed by the  Insititution of the Eucharistic Sacrificial Meal (to stay with the meal
analogy for the moment).

 Here is the great commentary of Cornelius a Lapide on that question:


 Council of Trent (Sess. 22, c. 1): “After Christ had celebrated the ancient Passover, which the multitude of the sons of Israel sacrificed in memory of their going out of Egypt, He instituted a new Passover, that He Himself should be immolated by the Church (ab ecclesia), by means of (per) the priests, under (sub) visible signs, in memory of His passage from this world
to the Father, when He redeemed us by the shedding of His Blood, and delivered us from the power of darkness, and translated us to His Kingdom.”

 http://tinyurl.com/k34adv7