Jesus at the Last Supper

At the last supper, the Poor One of Nazareth, aware of the greatness of the moment, submerged himself in the silence of his abysses for a long moment, during which memories of his life crossed his mind: leaping from the heights of the Father into the womb of his mother. But the time has once more arrived to return to his Father. He did only one thing during the passage: He loved. And now, at the end of his life, he prepared to launch the supreme offensive of love.

Then he raised his eyes. With a certain trace of sadness, he looked at those present, one by one. An uneasiness took hold of his disciples, who were hanging on the lips of their Master as though waiting for some special revelation.

Jesus said to them: “From the depths of my being, I want to speak to you tonight, and I want my words to be echoes of eternity. For many days, I have been possessed by the ardent desire that this night would arrive so that I might celebrate the Last Supper of farewell with you before I go. My children, I am leaving. If we do not leap into the precipice, wings will not grow.”

“I will have to be submerged in a bath, and after the bath, there will be a miracle: Pain will have been transformed into love, and love will raise up the walls of the Kingdom. In the same way, tonight, through my presence in the bread and the wine, I want to make myself an inseparable companion of all human loneliness until the end of time.”

Extracted from the book “The Poor One of Nazareth” by Father Ignacio Larrañaga