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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Holy Thursday
DESCRIPTION:THE BRIDGE BETWEEN \nTHE COVENANT \nAND THE EUCHARIST \nBy St Edith Stein \n◊◊◊ \nWe know from the Gospel narratives that Christ prayed as a Jew who \nbelieved in and was faithful to the Law. When he was a child with his parents\, \nand later with his disciples\, he used to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem at the \nappointed times to take part in the festivals that were celebrated in the temple. \nHe sang joyfully with the pilgrims\, “I was glad when they said unto me: We \nwill go into the house of the Lord”. He recited the ancient prayers of blessing\, \nwhich are still said today\, for bread\, wine\, and the fruits of the earth\, as the \naccounts of the Last Supper bear witness\, This was wholly consecrated to the \nfulfillment of one of the holiest religious obligations – the solemn Passover meal \nwhich commemorated the deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Perhaps it is here \nthat we are given the deepest insight into the prayer of Christ\, as it were the key \nwhich gives access to the prayer of the Church. \nNow as they were eating\, Jesus took bread\, and blessed\, and broke \nit\, and gave it to the disciples\, and said\, “Take\, eat; this is my body.” \nAnd he took a cup\, when he had given thanks he gave it to them\, \nsaying\, “Drink of it\, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant\, \nwhich is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sin” \n. \nThe blessing and giving of the bread and wine have become part of the rite \nof the Passover meal. But at the Last Supper this blessing and giving takes on a \nwholly new meaning. For this is the birth of the Church. Doubtless it was only \nat Pentecost that the Church was born a spiritual and visible community. But \nhere\, at the Supper\, took place that grafting of the shoot in the vine branch \nwhich made the outpouring of the Spirit possible. \nThe ancient prayers of blessing became creative words of life on Christ’s \nlips. The fruits of the earth became his flesh and blood\, filled with his life. The \nvisible creation into which he was inserted by his incarnation is now bound to \nhim in a new and mysterious way. The foods that are indispensable for the \ngrowth of the human organism are transformed in their nature\, and those \npartaking of them with faith are themselves transformed too; incorporated into \nChrist in a living union\, they are filled with his divine life. The quickening power \nof the Word is fused with the sacrifice. The Word becomes flesh to give us that \nLife which is his own. He offered himself\, and has thus offered the creation \nwhich he ransomed by this offering\, as a sacrifice of praise to the Creator. \nThe Passover of the ancient covenant has become the Passover of the \nnew covenant\, at the Lord’s Last Supper\, at the Sacrifice of the Cross\, and\, \nbetween the Resurrection and the Ascension\, at the joyful agape where the \ndisciples recognized their Lord in the breaking of the bread; and\, in the \nSacrifice of the Mass\, at Holy Communion.
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