Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year B
Then as Jesus did with the bread, he broke the ritual and said, ‘Take and drink. This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me.’ If some of the disciples did not understand at the breaking of the bread that this was the making of a new covenant between God and man, they couldn’t miss it now.