# Pasch / Paschal Lamb ## Catechism of the Catholic Church Jesus' saving death and its memorial in the Eucharist, associated with the Jewish feast of Passover (or Pasch) commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people from death by the blood of the lamb sprinkled on the doorposts in Egypt, which the angel of death saw and "passed over." Hence Jesus is acknowledged in the New Testament as the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world; he is the Paschal Lamb, the symbol of Israel's redemption at the first Passover. The Eucharist celebrates the new Passover, in which Jesus "passes over" to his Father by his death and resurrection, thus anticipating the final Passover of the Church in the glory of the Kingdom ([[1.2.2.4.p1m#^ccc-571|571]], [[1.2.2.4.p1o#^ccc-608|608]], [[1.2.2.7.p1v#^ccc-671|671]], [[2.2.1.3.pp3z#^ccc-1334|1334]]-[[2.2.1.3.pp3z#^ccc-1340|1340]]).