Pasch to the supper-room, and then returned to the house of Mary, the
mother of Mark. When Peter and John came to the supper-room with the
chalice, all the ceremonial habits were already in the vestibule,
whither they had been brought by his disciples and some companions.
They had also hung the walls with drapery, cleared the higher openings
in the sides, and put up three lamps. Peter and John then went to the
Valley of Josaphat, and summoned our Lord and the twelve Apostles. The
disciples and friends who were also to make their Pasch in the
supperroom, came later.


MEDITATION VI.

The Last Pasch.



Jesus and his disciples ate the Paschal Lamb in the supper-room.
They divided into three groups. Jesus ate the Paschal Lamb with the
twelve Apostles in the supper-room, properly so called; Nathaniel with
twelve other disciples in one of the lateral rooms, and Eliacim (the
son of Cleophas and Mary, the daughter of Heli), who had been a
disciple of John the Baptist, with twelve more, in another side-room.

Three lambs were immolated for them in the Temple, but there was a
fourth lamb which was immolated in the supper-room, and was the one
eaten by Jesus with his Apostles. Judas was not aware of this
circumstance, because being engaged in plotting his betrayal of our
Lord, he only returned a few moments before the repast, and after the
immolation of the lamb had taken place. Most touching was the scene of