A current topic of interest
About the Holy Chalice of the Last Supper
While medieval Grail literature found in the search for the sacred vessel a symbol of purification and renunciation in order to reach personal perfection and salvation, for years now we have been witnessing the appearance of novels, feignedly historical, and a whole esoteric literature that makes of the Grail an obscure object or a tradition hidden through the centuries, which would preserve the authentic essence of Christianity or the true story of Jesus of Nazareth.
It seems that what liberal criticism and anti-religious materialism failed to achieve, they now intend to achieve with this pseudo-disclosure in order to destroy the Church's clean faith in Jesus Christ the Lord. In this way, suspicion and falsehood seek to tarnish what was and should remain an icon of Christian culture.
That is why the Chalice, with its archaeological authenticity and its tradition free of marvellous elements, takes us back to the time of Jesus and reminds us of the institution of the Eucharist as historical moments that transcend time and come down to us as a mystery of salvation.
This is how we experience it when the sacred relic is transferred from its precious chapel, the Chapterhouse (14th century), to the high altar during the celebration of the Holy Mass at the Last Supper, on Holy Thursday and on the solemn feast of the last Thursday of October.
This is the message that Valencia Cathedral wishes to proclaim, with the support of worthy associations such as the Royal Brotherhood and Confraternity of the Holy Chalice which, together with the Metropolitan Chapter, maintain the worship and dissemination of the devotion to the Holy Chalice, which is expressed in the pilgrimages of parishes and religious and civic entities, every week, in the celebration of the “Thursdays of the Holy Chalice”.