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What do you think of all the lambs sacrificed for the Easter lunch?

Antonella asks:

... I know that like me you love animals, but I also know the biblical part that begins with the flight from Egypt and the sacrifice of a lamb per family. I would like to know your personal and biblical opinion. This is not out of curiosity, but for the esteem and authority that I have always recognized you.

What was done in the Ancient Testament, that is, the sacrifices, with the coming of Christ and his only sacrifice on the cross, valid once and for all (Jews 10:12), no longer needed. So purification rituals were no longer needed thanks to Jesus Christ. Even when the Gospel speaks of lamb, now we speak referring metaphorically to Christ: "The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (Giovanni 1:29), and not an animal.

According to this, I think what you do at Easter, the slaughter of lambs, in the name of a rite that does not even command the Gospel of Christ, is a real attack on creation, and therefore a shame, it is as if we are continually killing Jesus Christ, the pure and innocent, when we slaughter lambs. It's not that you shouldn't eat meat, as the Bible does not forbid it, but neither should these cruel and mass acts towards God's creatures be carried out only for simple human tradition.

It has a meaning that during the last supper they were eating lamb?

No, it doesn't mean anything. Jesus did not command that we always eat lamb to remind us of him. The lamb, I repeat, it was a metaphor for what he himself was, the innocent and pure. So it is not that eating lamb brings some particular grace. So I say stop to this massacre in the most absolute way!