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SUMMARY:Holy Thursday
DESCRIPTION:THE BRIDGE BETWEEN THE COVENANT \nAND THE EUCHARIST\nBy St Edith Stein 5\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 \nbody.” And he took a cup\, when he had given thanks he gave it to \nthem\, saying\, “Drink of it\, all of you; for this is my blood of the \ncovenant\, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of \nsins”. \nThe blessing and giving of the bread and wine have become part of the\nrite of the Passover meal. But at the Last Supper this blessing and giving takes\non a wholly new meaning. For this is the birth of the Church. Doubtless it was\nonly at Pentecost that the Church was born a spiritual and visible community.\nBut here\, at the Supper\, took place that grafting of the shoot in the vine branch\nwhich made the outpouring of the Spirit possible. The ancient prayers of\nblessing became creative words of life on Christ’s lips. The fruits of the earth\nbecame his flesh and blood\, filled with his life. The visible creation into which\nhe was inserted by his incarnation is now bound to him in a new and mysterious\nway. The foods that are indispensable for the growth of the human organism\nare transformed in their nature\, and those partaking of them with faith are\nthemselves transformed too; incorporated into Christ in a living union\, they are\nfilled with his divine life. The quickening power of the Word is fused with the\nsacrifice. The Word becomes flesh to give us that Life which is his own. He\noffered himself\, and has thus offered the creation which he ransomed by this\noffering\, as a sacrifice of praise to the Creator. The passover of the ancient\ncovenant has become the passover of the new covenant\, at the Lord’s Last\nSupper\, at the Sacrifice of the Cross\, and\, between the Resurrection and the\nAscension\, at the joyful agape where the disciples recognized their Lord in the\nbreaking of the bread; and\, in the Sacrifice of the Mass\, at Holy Communion. \n5\n“Liturgy & Eucharist”\, reprinted in “Lectures chrétiennes pour notre temps”: 8 1971\, #2\, E4. Abbaye d’Orval\,\nBelgium.
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