St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - Weekly Talks

According to the ancient Passover structure, Jesus would have ended his last Passover meal on Maundy Thursday with chanting Psalm 118, today's responsorial Psalm. But is there a biblical allusion to this? Both Matthew and Mark's account of the Last Supper end with a delightful line, "And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives" (Matt 26:30; Mark 14:26). I love the image of Jesus singing, most likely chanting, this magnificent Psalm. The Psalm describes a day in which the Lord has acted (v. 24), we will rejoice and be glad in it." What day is the Psalm describing? This Psalm describes a mysterious event in which a great deliverance from death occurs (vv 14 - 21). The next verse, "The same stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone" ... is used throughout the NT as referring to Christ (vv 22 - 26). How does Christ, the rejected Stone in the quarry, become the Chief Cornerstone? By his birth, faithful life, death, resurrection and ascension. Our Eucharistic li