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Our Holy Meal
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BY FR. DAVID J. ENDRES
Food is often linked to religious practice, whether as an offering to the divine, a form of remembrance, or a sign of the sacred. Jewish believers annually celebrate the Passover through a ritual meal called a Seder, a commemoration of the Exodus events when the Lord saved the Israelites.
The Jewish people had suffered under the Egyptians, but God intervened, sending a series of plagues upon their captors. On the night of the final plague, when the angel of death struck down the firstborn, the Israelites marked their doorposts with the blood of the lamb of sacrifice, and the angel “passed over” their homes, leaving them unharmed (see Exodus 11–12).