Four weeks before Christmas, period of time to prepare the Celebration of the Nativity of Jesus. The color purple symbolizes penitence and a readiness to learn. Christian New Year's Day on the first Sunday of Advent.

Christians reflect on The Last Supper, when Jesus celebrated the Passover meal with his disciples.

Maundy Thursday - also called Holy Thursday is the feast or holy day on the Thursday before Easter that commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles.

The Last Supper
On this day, Christians remember the Last Supper. During the meal Jesus took bread and wine and shared them with his disciples. Christians continue to share bread and wine as part of their worship in church.

The Last Supper was probably a Passover meal - the meal which Jewish people share together to celebrate the time when God delivered Moses and the people from slavery in Egypt.

The night of Maundy Thursday is the night on which Jesus was betrayed by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane.