Shortly before sundown Monday, Sister Mary Roy Weiss, director of campus ministry at Baltimore?s College of Notre Dame, greeted more than 50 students, staff, faculty, friends and family ? Christian and Jewish ? in the school?s Doyle Formal Lounge and briefly spoke of the connection between seder and Catholic Mass.

“The seder dinner is in honor of the Jewish people who were freed from slavery in Egypt,” Weiss said in an interview Monday. “Because Jesus was Jewish, he was celebrating this Passover meal as a good Jew the night before he died. This was where he and his apostles met at the Last Supper.”

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