I read, today proposed Feast of the Chair of St. Peter A Fides, the Credo of the People of God "by Paul VI. And my attention focuses on the following song, which I hit the sentence that I highlighted in bold. Then enter an old debate, which accounts for why the sentence strikes me and leaves me open question. The reflection is redundant with the phrase, but I left because I think integrates useful for me and for many, retracing what the Eucharist. I'll be very grateful to anyone, even a priest, will respond.
"... We believe that the Mass celebrated by the priest representing the person of Christ by virtue of the power received in the Sacrament of Orders, and offered by him in the name of Christ and members of his Body Monk, is the sacrifice of Calvary rendered sacramentally present on our altars. We believe that as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His Body and His blood which soon be offered for us on the Cross allo stesso modo il pane e il vino consacrati dal sacerdote sono convertiti nel Corpo e nel Sangue di Cristo gloriosamente regnante nel cielo ; e crediamo che la misteriosa presenza del Signore, sotto quello che continua ad apparire come prima ai nostri sensi, è una presenza vera, reale e sostanziale..."
L'Eucaristia è il memoriale della Passione, il compimento delle figure dell'Antica Alleanza, la più grande di tutte le meraviglie operate da Cristo.
Cosa AVVIENE sull'Altare? Dopo preghiere preparatorie e il momento solenne delle Letture, il sacerdote offre il pane e il vino: è l'offerta o Offertorio ; questi elementi stanno per be transformed into the Body and Blood of our Lord. The priest then invites the faithful and the heavenly spirits to surround the altar ( Pray brothers and Preface which will become a new Calvary), to accompany him with praise, gifts and worship the holy az ion. After that, he entered quietly in more intimate communion with God comes the moment of Consecration. Extends his hands on the offers, as he did in the old high priest on the victim to be sacrificed; repeats ( not tell) all the gestures and the words of Christ at the Last Supper when he instituted the sacrifice: In the night he was betrayed ... Then, identified with Christ, He pronounced the ritual words: "This is my body . .." "This is My Blood ...".
These words, spoken by the One "through whom all things were created", they do change the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. To express its will and its formal establishment, makes Christ truly and substantially present with his divinity and his humanity, in appearances that remain as they are and however, if the materials remain hidden from our senses, enliven the spiritual.
Words, Actio divine, of Christ himself who is Altar, Victim, Priest and Sacrifice, by which the sacrifice is accomplished. By virtue of the words: This is my Body given up for you ", Christ, for the mediation of a priest, turns in his flesh the species of bread with the words: This is my blood" poured for you ", turns in his blood the species of wine. This separates Christ mystically in his flesh and blood, who on the Cross were physically separated, and the separation of which resulted in the death and subsequent burial also was subjected to even get in this ultimate and tragic moment of our 'step' the shores of eternity.
And here, the Resurrection. He himself can not die any more: death has no power over him (Rom 6:9). The separation of his Body and his Blood on the altar that makes it mystical. The same Christ who was sacrificed on the Cross, was sacrificed on the altar, but in a different way, and this sacrifice, accompanied by the offering, is a real sacrifice.
Communion continues the Sacrifice, is the last important act of the Mass. The ritual of consummation of the victim to complete the expression of the idea of \u200b\u200bchange and especially the bond that is found throughout the Sacrifice . By coming together so closely that the victim has been replaced, man immolated, so to speak, more [Marmion, Christ the life of the soul ] eating the Host, which has become sacred and holy thing, we share the power of God and only made by the consecration of Christ we tender our life, that is to offer our bodies "as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual worship" (Romans 12 Paul, 1-2)
the Mass, the victim is Christ himself, God and man, so communion is the act for the excellence of union with the Lord, is the best and most intimate participation in these fruits of the covenant and divine life which gives us the sacrifice of Christ. If participation is mystical, but our food, the living Bread which came down from heaven, is the Lamb slain before the Risen Lord. Now is indistinguishable, but what the Lord commands us in the same and gives us and invites us to live up to the end of time I should never be overlooked. I stress this because today is the widespread tendency to concentrate everything in Paschal Mystery, which is all well and good, but it tends to accentuate the Resurrection and to live alone.
So then, the Mass is not only a representation or a 'memorial' in the sense of commemoration of the sacrifice of the Cross does not have the value of a simple ricordo. E' sì un ricordo "ogni volta che farete questo lo fate in memoria di me"; ma è un ricordo che ri-attualizza; ed è un vero sacrificio, come quello del Calvario, che essa riproduce e riproducendolo lo perpetua e ne applica i frutti fino alla fine dei tempi.
Quando partecipiamo al Santo Sacrificio, nel quale Gesù, vittima divina, si offre a Dio come sul Calvario, il Padre riceve da questa offerta, un omaggio di valore infinito, veramente degno delle sue perfezioni. Infatti, per opera di Gesù Cristo, Uomo-Dio, Figlio suo, immolato e adorato sull'altare: per Lui, con Lui e in Lui sale a Dio Padre Onnipotente, nell'unità dello Spirito Santo, ogni onore and glory, for ever and ever.
's just so that our soul, full of wonder to be the object of divine complacency, exclaims: "Lord, how can I, poor creature, return your many benefits? Although you did not need my goods, however, just that I recognize your infinite goodness: how can I thank you with dignity: How can I repay the Lord for me? ". This is the cry of the priest, who becomes the cry of the whole Church, after the communion with the Host. And what response the Church places on his lips? I will lift up the cup of salvation ...". " retribuam Domino Quid pro omnibus quae mihi paid work? Calicem salutaris accipiam: et Nomen Domini invocabo "(Salmo 116,12). Invocazione che possiamo far nostra, partecipando anche col far nostre tutte le altre sublimi preghiere preparatorie e successive, ad eccezione della formula Consacratoria.
La Messa è l'azione di grazie per eccellenza, la più perfetta e la più gradita che possiamo rendere a Dio, durante la quale il Signore ci porta con Sé sul Calvario e, poi, oltre una tomba vuota, nel mondo della Risurrezione.
Ci dice S. Tommaso: "Nessun sacramento in realtà è più salutare di questo: per sua virtù vengono cancellati i peccati, crescono le buone disposizioni, and the mind is enriched with all spiritual gifts. In the Church, the Eucharist is offered for the living and the dead, because it is beneficial to all, having been instituted for the salvation of all. "Why is it in Heaven and the Church Triumphant yesterday today tomorrow's opening on our land. If everyone is to receive the Lord and so to be generated and re-elect him and become one in him: the more that your Holy People - as now most commonly expressed, that seems to find a flavor Old Testament and shows no trace of his name - the Mystical Body of Christ, His Church.
The Gospel tells us first to establish that this sacrifice, Jesus gave thanks to the Father. S. Paul uses the same expression and the Church has kept this term in preference to others, while not excluding other expressions to describe the offering of the altar, which is why the Eucharistic sacrifice means sacrifice of thanksgiving: the Eucharist. sacrifice and not just feasting, deep inner joy and exultation desecrating adoring, Offer Atonement Repair before becoming Resurrection, Christ the Lord ...
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