- “Alleluia, Christ our Passover, the lamb, has been sacrificed” to free us from slavery to the devil… Throughout Christendom we cry out in exultation: “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever” (v.1). But what does it mean to “keep the feast with the unleavened bread of purity and truth”? When bread is unleavened, when no yeast is put into it, it does not rise, it remains flat retaining its original shape. When the Israelites left Egypt, they had no time to prepare their daily bread in the usual manner; it was baked unleavened because of their haste. In referring back to this yearly commemoration of the Jewish nation, St. Paul is telling us that now that Christ, our sacrificial Lamb, has risen from the dead, we no longer need to celebrate with mere symbolic natural elements. He, himself, is now our “unleavened bread of purity and truth, alleluia, alleluia”. With sincerity of heart and mind we can proclaim the truth: “This is the day the Lord has made; let us be glad and rejoice in it”. - Sister Mary Francis, Poor Clare of St. Louis