From Forums of the Virgin Mary [translated, for discernment]:
The Eucharist and the destiny of the Chalice of the First Transubstantiation.
The day before Passover, a group of men, twenty centuries ago, share the most important dinner in history.
Yesterday was Maundy Thursday, the day that will forever mark the destiny of humanity.
On this crucial night, Jesus shares transcendental revelations with His Apostles, says goodbye, and institutes the gift of the Eucharist.
Bread and wine that become the Body and Blood of Christ.
A mystery that was kept in the Holy Chalice, silent witness of the first transubstantiation.
Join us on this journey through Holy Thursday to discover the richness of the Last Supper, the meaning of the Eucharist, and the legacy of the Holy Chalice, which was carefully guarded from the beginning of history, to contain the first transubstantiation, and has arrived to the present day.
Jesus spent Holy Thursday in Bethany and returned to Jerusalem to celebrate the Last Supper.
First he sent Peter and John to organize the dinner in the Upper Room to celebrate the Passover.
He washed the feet of the apostles.
He celebrated the first Mass, and instituted the Eucharist and the priesthood.
He gave the new commandment, to love one another.
He indicated that Peter will have a special pastoral role among the apostles, but announced that he would deny it three times.
He prayed for the unity of his followers.
Jesus announced the betrayal, which would later be consummated.
And finally, he went to pray in the garden of Gethsemane.
According to the chronology of the biblical stories, Jesus had His Last Supper as a Passover meal, but the day before the Jews officially celebrate Passover.
Both Easters have very different connotations.
During Good Friday, the lambs were being sacrificed in the temple, for the official Jewish Passover dinner.
The one that was going to take place after sunset on Good Friday.
But when the Jewish Passover began, Jesus had already been buried.
So, chronologically, Jesus celebrated His own Passover and not the Passover of the Old Covenant.
During Passover, it was eaten among family members with the father presiding over the meal.
However, in this new Easter meal Jesus eats with the members of the Church and God presides over the meal.
The spotless male lamb that was sacrificed for the Jewish Passover was Jesus Himself at the New Passover.
Because Jesus without sin is the new Passover Lamb.
But also, unlike the Jewish Passover, Jesus instituted the Eucharist.
And unlike the slain lambs, Jesus rose from the dead.
Anna Catalina Emmerich had a long vision about the Last Supper, that is, the New Easter.
She saw Jesus turn transparent until He looked like a luminous shadow and broke the bread into several pieces, put them on the paten, and then took a piece and dropped it into the chalice.
Then He took the paten with the pieces of bread and said, “Take and eat, this is My Body that is given for you.”
He extended His right hand as if to bless, a brilliant light came out of Him, and the bread entered the Apostles’ mouths.
Only Judas remained in the dark.
Then, Jesus raised the chalice by its two handles to the level of His Face and pronounced the words of Consecration.
And in doing so, He appeared transparent, transfigured as if he passed entirely into what he was going to give to his Apostles, who took from the chalice.
Anna Catalina Emmerich also tells the supernatural story of the chalice or grail.
This glass had been found by the priests in the Temple treasury.
It was bought by Serafia, one of Jesus’ followers, and used several times by Him in celebrating festivals.
And from the day of the Last Supper it became the exclusive property of the Christian community.
She further relates that the chalice had previously been in Abraham’s possession.
Melchizedek had brought him from the land of Semiramis to the land of Canaan.
He used it to offer the sacrifice, when he offered bread and wine in the presence of Abraham, and left it in the possession of the holy patriarch.
This same chalice had also been preserved in Noah’s Ark.
After its use by Jesus, it was presumed lost.
And the knights of the Middle Ages developed the search for the Holy Grail as an ideal.
To which miraculous powers were attributed and contained a high spiritual meaning.
This was manifested in the Knights of the Round Table, and in the great musical works of Ricardo Wagner.
It was eagerly sought after by many occultists for its attributed magical power.
Hitler made enormous efforts to find it because he believed it would give him supernatural power.
And even modern cinema has told stories of the search for the Holy Grail, for example in Steven Spielberg’s film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”
The idea that circulates is that it was lost among the vagaries of history.
However, it would seem that the chalice of the Last Supper, or Holy Grail, would not be lost.
Father Jorge Loring noted that until the Second Vatican Council, there was only one formula of the canon of Mass, which had remained unchanged since apostolic times.
In this formula of the Roman Canon, it is said: “The Lord Jesus, taking this chalice in His holy hands etc..”
And Loring maintains that Saint Peter said “this cup” because it was the same cup that the Lord had used at the Last Supper.
And it is also known that in the Rome of the first Christians there was a chalice, called the “papal chalice.”
Because only the Pope said Mass with it, since it was the same chalice that the Lord had used at the Last Supper.
And what happened then to that chalice or grail?
Apparently it disappeared and there are several chalices that are claimed to be the true ones today.
But there are two in Spain that seem to have more credentials to be the authentic ones.
One is Doña Urraca, which is located in León.
But lately the Vatican has given signs of the authenticity of the chalice that is venerated in the Chapel of the Holy Chalice of the Cathedral of Valencia.
This Holy Grail is 17 centimeters high, and the cup measures 5.5 in height and 9.5 in diameter.
It is made of chalcedony stone, a type of translucent quartz, with an intense orange color.
The foot with handles has jewels that would have been added later: pearls and emeralds.
And the carving of the upper cup has been dated to around the first century.
And how would he have gotten to Rome and, from there, to Valencia?
The story of the Holy Chalice of Valencia arrives in Rome predictably carried by Saint Mark, accompanying Saint Peter.
It is traditionally believed that Mark was an assistant to the apostle Peter and dedicated himself to writing the Gospel of Saint Mark based on the preachings of Saint Peter.
The family of Saint Mark the Evangelist was rich.
The Cenacle where the Last Supper was celebrated belonged to the Mark family.
Then Mark took the chalice to Rome with him.
And how did you get to Valencia later?
Pope Sixtus II handed it over to his deacon, San Lorenzo, who was Spanish, in the year 258, in the face of Roman persecution of Christians.
And San Lorenzo sent it to his family, in Huesca, for safekeeping, and then it passed through various places, of which there is evidence, until it reached the cathedral of Valencia.
Well, that’s it for what we wanted to say about the Last Supper, which was not a Passover like that of the Jews.
And what happened then with the chalice that contained the first transubstantiation with the Blood of Jesus until today.
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