The Reenactment of the Last Supper

   The children get so excited anticipating this day.  It's fun

and exciting to them.  More importantly they relive Jesus'

last night spent with His Apostles at the Cenacle (which comes

from Latin "cenaculum" meaning dining room).  We then

reenact Judas being paid by soldiers, Jesus being arrested

in the Garden and finally crucified, but Risen.  We light the

candles by the crucifix and have a moment of silence. 

 

To relive it in that way really brings it to life for them.  We use 

small tortillas and raspberry lemonade.   Afterward, they finish 

eating the tortillas and drinking the lemonade for a job well

done.  I use five small tables for this setup and for the Meditations 

on the Passion the following week as well.  It takes me about an 

hour to set this up.

The Last Supper

The week before the Reenactment, I  select Jesus, Peter and John 

for their parts and tell everyone about the Reenactment we'll do the 

following week.  The others can sit wherever they choose on that 

day and that becomes their part.  I tell them that we don't know if 

the Blessed Mother or Mary Magdalene were there, but we think they

might have been.  So I assign those parts to a volunteer.

There are always a couple of girls who want to be in those roles.