St. Bartholomew’s Haggadah: Prepared by the Rev. Daniel Kreller

By Daniel Kreller

As an Episcopal priest with an interest in the Jewish Roots of Christianity, I assembled this Haggadah for use in my Parish, St. Bartholomew’s, Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. During Holy Week we have a Seder on Maundy Thursday, the evening when Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples. It was his last meal for on the next day he died. Aware of his death he gave new meaning to two of the foods of the meal, the bread and the wine. He declared that the bread signified his broken body and the wine his shed blood. The Passover for Jews recounts God’s deliverance and redemption when they were enslaved in Egypt. For Christians the meal that is fashioned from the Passover meal recounts our deliverance and redemption from the powers of sin and evil and death. We call this meal the Eucharist and celebrate it weekly, on Sunday, the day of Jesus’ resurrection. In this Haggadah I try to remain faithful to Seder as it has been observed by Jews while incorporating elements that make it distinctly Messianic (affirming the Christian belief that Jesus is the Messiah).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Kreller
• Release date: Jan 27, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311847935

Daniel Kreller

The son of a Baptist minister, I was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1977. I studied for the ministry at Princeton, General, and Union Seminaries. I served as a parish priest for 40 years. I have a particular interest in the healing ministry and the Jewish roots of Christianity. I am married and have a grown son and daughter.

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St. Bartholomew’s Haggadah

Prepared by The Rev. Daniel Kreller

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Copyright 2015 Daniel W. Kreller

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Jesus and the Last Supper

The description of the Last Supper given in the gospels is undoubtedly a record of the Seder of the first night of Passover. The bread which Jesus ate was unleavened bread and the wine he drank was the wine used by the Jews on the first night of Passover. The gospels do not say Jesus ate the paschal lamb no doubt because they held that Jesus himself was the paschal lamb that was to be sacrificed to redeem men.

The followers of Jesus gave thanks over the Bread and Cup in their ritual, which they first referred to as the mystery and later called the Eucharist. They also