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Seven-year-old Dianna Vazquez of Sacred Heart Basilica, Atlanta, follows the order of the Seder service by reading along in “The Student Haggadah.” Rabbi Julie Schwartz and some youth from Temple Emanu-El, Dunwoody, led an instructional and spiritual lesson on the Seder meal March 21 with parishioners and RCIA candidates at Sacred Heart Basilica, Atlanta. (Photos by Michael Alexander)

Mark Morgan, foreground, right, and other RCIA candidates at Sacred Heart Basilica, Atlanta, participate in an instructional demonstration on the faith expression of the Seder meal. Those who took part followed the order of the Seder service with aid of “The Student Haggadah.”

The Seder plate contains the symbolic foods eaten for the Passover Seder, including (clockwise from top right) parsley, bitter herbs, hardboiled egg, charoset (an apple and nut mixture) and a shankbone.