Mass of the Lord’s Supper Yrs ABC 2025
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· 8 viewsThe Passover “lamb” brought was passively applied to the people, bringing protect and freedom, and preparing the way for the ascetic wilderness purification for the covenant formation at Sinai. Paul presents the Eucharist as the people’s participation in the covenant forming event in their consumption of Christ’s body and blood given by him and their ongoing proclamation of this to the powers. John, who has earlier depicted the eucharistic event points to , coming into the covenant at baptism, but the need for ongoing participation (washing) so that the congregation through acts of self-giving love can bring Christ to one another. We should meditate on these truths during the Triduum.
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Life Given for the People of God
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I have just completed the Exodus90 challenge which is built on the Exodus account intending to bring Christian men to a new level of freedom and a closer relationship with God. We note that the Exodus experience starts with a yearling lamb or kid dying, its blood being painted on the doorway to protect God’s firstborn Israel and its flesh being consumed by the people inside. Then they are ready for the ascetic experience of the wilderness leading to freely entering a covenant with God at Sinai.
Paul describes Jesus’ Passover-like celebration immediately before his death, but now the “lamb” is bread transformed into his body and wine transformed into his blood and both are consumed by the people to participate in the one covenant forming event and proclaim, I suggest to the spiritual powers, that event and their unity with it.
But John, who has already discussed the consuming of Jesus in chapter 6 that has already bathed the baptized disciples, points to the need for ongoing washing both in ongoing participation in the Eucharist and in ongoing self-giving acts of love for the good of one another, the self-giving of the master being sacramentally conveyed in the self-giving of the disciple.
As we walk though these next days let us meditate on these texts so that the life of Jesus’ eucharistic self-giving may flow through us for the renewal of his Church.
