Did you know that, according to Church tradition, Pentecost took place in the same room as the Last Supper—and the first post-resurrection appearances of Christ? The Upper Room in Jerusalem is known as the location of all three of these extraordinary events in the founding of Christianity.
Msgr. Peter J. Vaghi writes about these events in his book Meeting God in the Upper Room: Three Moments to Change Your Life. What's more, he describes the way the foundations of the Catholic Church, including several of the sacraments, have their origins in the events of the Upper Room.
He writes...
Despite the tensions over its religious significance, the events that took place in the Upper Room prior to and immediately after the crucifixion of Christ, and in the days following his Resurrection, can never be undone or forgotten. The fruits of Jesus’s life and ministry, as witnessed in the precious moments in the Upper Room documented in Scripture, continue in and through the Church. In this humble space, the most important room in all of Christendom, where Jesus set a remarkable precedent of faith and service, we were given a new understanding of God’s love and the revolutionary power of the Holy Spirit was unleashed.
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