Passover

On conference Sunday (Palm Sunday) Dan and I invited a couple from our ward over to celebrate Passover. My sil Torrie introduced me to a wonderful book Celebrating Passover: A Guide to Understanding the Jewish Passover for Latter-day Saints. We read an LDS version of the Haggadah which helps you understand and remember the time of Moses and the original Passover when the destroying angel passed over the Jews who put the blood of the unblemished lamb on their door frames. We recounted the entire story of their deliverance out of Egypt. We ate symbolic food that is eaten during Passover, it was interesting and this book helps to further point the symbols to Christ and shows you how Passover and Easter are the same holy day. At the end after dinner (we ate traditional Jewish foods like potato latke and charoset and matzah) we recounted the last Passover dinner, the Last Supper. It was very interesting to see how the tradtional symbols used in the Passover like the wine (in our case grape juice) and matzah, Christ used to institute the Sacrament, and how he showed the true meaning and symbols of the original Passover and how they were a similitude of his ulitmate sacrifice, the sacrifice of the umblemished Lamb of God to save us all. It was a wonderful way to prepare and center our thoughts on Christ during this Easter season, and not so much on the easter bunny. We had a great time, we got to know the Ashtons better, we were spiritually enlightened and uplifted, and we now have a better understanding of the connections between Passover, the Last Supper, Easter and the Atonement. Thanks again Torrie, what a great way to remember Christ and what he did for me.