The Last Supper of Jesus can be understood as a wedding banquet between God and God’s people, between Creator and creation.

Vows are taken before gathered friends; lasting love is pronounced even beyond ‘death do us part.’ The communion that is promised will be for all time. Greater love than this cannot be: “to give your life for another.”

This is not a ‘last supper’ at all. It is the beginning of the end of a certain way of knowing, and a way of believing. Listen to these words under the song:

Farewell, my friends, my hour is near. The Father calls me to his side.
I go but I shall come again. I go but I shall come again.

We have as vine and branches grown, drawn up into the light above.
Abide in me as I in you. Abide in me as I in you.

Unless the seed falls in the ground, and gives its life to all around,
how could it ever rise again! How could it ever rise again?

I break this bread for you to eat. I pour this wine for you to drink.
I give my life as food for you. It is my love I give to you.

I call you friends for so you are. No greater love could ever be:
to give your life for those you love. Would you not do the same for me?

The hour has come for me to go. The Father bids me do his will.
The Paraclete will come to you. The Prince of Darkness waits for me.

Farewell