How Christ Said the First Mass: or the Rites and Ceremonies of Jesus and the Apostles, Foretold in the Hebrew Passover

Reverend James L. Meagher examines how Jesus Christ and the twelve apostles undertook the first Mass, and what His example of Mass means to Christian churches and worshippers.

Meagher begins by debunking a common misconception: the idea that the Mass tradition originates from the Last Supper, whereby the eating of bread and wine is symbolic of God's flesh and blood. This singular event, while important in the life of Christ and hence Christian history, was not the origin of Mass; rather the ...