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A rabbi, a Baptist minister and a Catholic educator came together to create a new ritual Christians can observe during Holy Week’s Easter and Passover holidays. Forged out of respect for their religious traditions, Jewish Christian Discovery Center Executive Director Rabbi Albert Slomovitz, retired Baptist Minister Michael Tutterow and St. Ann’s Children’s Ministry Director Jenny Kiehl spent the past year creating a ritual that reflects on Jesus’s Last Supper during Passover.
This new ritual, a modern-day meal with prayers and songs, reflects and honors Jesus’s Last Supper at Passover. The goal is to bring family and friends together in the spirit of love and kindness. The new ritual is centered on God’s love for us.
Family and friends will come together to reflect on Jesus’s life as a practicing Jew. Parishioners will come together for an evening meal retelling the Exodus story when Moses led the ancient Hebrew slaves out of Egypt to freedom.
Quoting the Books of Mathew and Luke and Psalms 118, participants will explore Passover as Jesus did in ancient times.
“It was an honor to work with my Baptist and Catholic friends, to explore how Holy Week can be a time to honor Jesus at Passover,” Jewish Christian Discovery Center Executive Director Rabbi Albert Slomovitz said. “We hope this new tradition will bring people closer together showing them we all have a lot in common.”
This new ritual will be celebrated at the Catholic Church of St. Ann on Wednesday, March 25 at 5:45 p.m.
The Jewish Christian Discovery Center is a non-profit educational foundation whose mission is to reduce antisemitism and other forms of intolerance based in metro Atlanta. It publishes children’s books in English and Spanish about Judaism and Jesus’ Jewish life. It produced the award-winning film, “The Magical Encounter” and worked with several Atlanta area churches on the 2023 Breaking Badness Choosing Goodness Easter and Passover interfaith prayer service.
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