Jesus chose the Passover feast of his people Israel as a symbol for what was to happen through his death and Resurrection. As the people Israel were freed from slavery to Egypt, so Christ free us from the slavery of sin and the power of death. [571-573]
The Passover was the feast celebrating the liberation of Israel from slavery in Egypt. Jesus went to Jerusalem in order to free us in an even deeper way. He celebrated the Paschal feast with his disciples. During this feast, he made himself the sacrificial Lamp. “For Christ, our Paschal Lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 for 5:7), so as to establish once and for all the definitive reconciliation between God and mankind.
