All three synoptic Gospels (Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:13–16; Luke 22:7–13) recall the need for Jesus' disciples to go prepare for the upcoming Passover. The details found in the latter two are the first mention the Upper Room. But all three state the disciples did what they were asked to do.
What about you? How well is your Upper Room prepared as we enter the Sacred Triduum--the three most holiest days of the liturgical year? How ready is your whole soul, heart, mind, and body after these last forty days? What harvest are you expecting after planting those seeds of renewal and repentance last Ash Wednesday? What plants sprouted, ready to be transplanted into the fertile ground of Easter?
Hopefully, you are more tax collector than Pharisee. In any case, the Church invites you to partake in the ultimate source and summit of its liturgies. Unlike the "sprint" of the four Christmas Masses, these liturgies are more like a "marathon". With no formal dismissal after Holy Thursday's Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper or Good Friday's Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, they are designed to lead you into either the ceremonies of the Easter Vigil and/or the Mass of Easter Day, when the Resurrection is celebrated. It is here we get a foretaste of the eternal banquet, the Wedding Feast of the Lamb, where our worship, adoration, and praise of God will be without end.
Partake as your schedule allows.
But do partake.
That's what his disciples did after preparation.
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