S. FAUSTI - The daily experience of the Eucharist moves us to the eighth day, the day of the transfiguration, because it makes us present to His gift of eternal love. His bread is our life and enable us, as Elijah, to the long journey of forty days, until the mountain of God's revelation (1Re19,8). The place where they recognize Jesus is not the curiosity of Herod, who wants to control and hold Him,, but the fragrance of the bread and the stunned amazement of the disciple who relishes it. The breaking of bread is objective revelation of His love for me. I remember it, I bring Him to my heart, at the center of myself and I let myself be questioned by Him trying to answer. The faith is this dialogue that becomes common life, His love that makes itself my bread and feeds me. The reading that Luke makes of this banquet, strictly Christological, it marks the culmination of the mission: the apostolic activity leads to know the Lord Jesus and it has its "summit" and crowning in the Eucharist, which is also the "origin". It is the foundation and together fulfillmentthe of the Church, its beginning and its aim! The story has as background the waiting for the messianic banquet in the desert, similar to that God served to his people (Is.25,6 ... Os 11.4). The bread is given to everyone. Only the disciples realize of what happened. It does not follow any reaction. For those who realize it, the only possible reaction is the faith in Jesus as the Messiah, our hope. This hope entangles and associates us to Him, and it is clarified gradually in dialogue with Him. In the end He fully reveals Himself , he makes us enter into His mystery of death and resurrection, and He takes us with Him in his journey to Jerusalem. The text alludes to the celebration of the Eucharist in all its historical and eschatological. value - It places those who celebrate it in the heart of the mystery of God, in the memory of His passion for us, and in anticipation of the resurrection and His return. The apostles, the twelve ,called then disciples , as those who will continue their action, are the servants of this banquet They convoke, welcome, receive and distribute to all the broken bread and given by the Lord. The surplus isn't hidden, (like the manna in Ex. 16,32) but it is what the disciples always have kept in store to give everyone and forever. Moreover this bread it can and must be kept (Jn 6:12). Unlike the manna that perishes, this Bread will never perish. It has indeed the power to preserve from the dead the one who eats it. In it the Lord wants and can finally reveal the mystery of love towardthe Father and us. This Bread places us at the heart of the Trinity, as sons in the Son, and makes us like Him listeners of the Father's Word which transfigures the face. The center of this piece is to say the words of the Last Supper. Now the presence of God Who in Exodus satiates His people, it is is replaced by Christ Who breaks the bread. Feeding all, accomplished by the disciples at the Lord's command, it resounds the "Do this in memory of me" (of every Eucharistic Prayer in the gift without measure of the Consecration).
S. FAUSTI - The daily experience of the Eucharist moves us to the eighth day, the day of the transfiguration, because it makes us present to His gift of eternal love.
RispondiEliminaHis bread is our life and enable us, as Elijah, to the long journey of forty days, until the mountain of God's revelation (1Re19,8). The place where they recognize Jesus is not the curiosity of Herod, who wants to control and hold Him,, but the fragrance of the bread and the stunned amazement of the disciple who relishes it.
The breaking of bread is objective revelation of His love for me.
I remember it, I bring Him to my heart, at the center of myself and I let myself be questioned by Him trying to answer.
The faith is this dialogue that becomes common life, His love that makes itself my bread and feeds me.
The reading that Luke makes of this banquet, strictly Christological, it marks the culmination of the mission: the apostolic activity leads to know the Lord Jesus and it has its "summit" and crowning in the Eucharist, which is also the "origin".
It is the foundation and together fulfillmentthe of the Church, its beginning and its aim!
The story has as background the waiting for the messianic banquet in the desert, similar to that God served to his people (Is.25,6 ... Os 11.4).
The bread is given to everyone.
Only the disciples realize of what happened.
It does not follow any reaction.
For those who realize it, the only possible reaction is the faith in Jesus as the Messiah, our hope.
This hope entangles and associates us to Him, and it is clarified gradually in dialogue with Him.
In the end He fully reveals Himself , he makes us enter into His mystery of death and resurrection, and He takes us with Him in his journey to Jerusalem.
The text alludes to the celebration of the Eucharist in all its historical and eschatological. value -
It places those who celebrate it in the heart of the mystery of God, in the memory of His passion for us, and in anticipation of the resurrection and His return.
The apostles, the twelve ,called then disciples , as those who will continue their action, are the servants of this banquet
They convoke, welcome, receive and distribute to all the broken bread and given by the Lord.
The surplus isn't hidden, (like the manna in Ex. 16,32) but it is what the disciples always have kept in store to give everyone and forever.
Moreover this bread it can and must be kept (Jn 6:12).
Unlike the manna that perishes, this Bread will never perish. It has indeed the power to preserve from the dead the one who eats it. In it the Lord wants and can finally reveal the mystery of love towardthe Father and us.
This Bread places us at the heart of the Trinity, as sons in the Son, and makes us like Him listeners of the Father's Word which transfigures the face.
The center of this piece is to say the words of the Last Supper.
Now the presence of God Who in Exodus satiates His people, it is is replaced by Christ Who breaks the bread.
Feeding all, accomplished by the disciples at the Lord's command, it resounds the "Do this in memory of me" (of every Eucharistic Prayer in the gift without measure of the Consecration).