Please activate JavaScript!
Please install Adobe Flash Player, click here for download
ePaper created 2015-02-27, 18:37:22 | version 1.33.01
When we use the word memorial, we mean that the Death and Resurrection of Christ: is actualized, that is to say made present here and now, in a special way. And for this reason our thoughts are not going back to the past, to something that has taken place a long time ago; is made present here and now because of the power of the Holy Spirit, and not because of something that we ourselves are capable of doing. The Holy Mass, precisely because it is not just a memorial of those things that occurred in the past, but makes present, real and efficacious the unique and perfect Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross and his Resurrection, is called the memorial of the Christ’s Easter. In this way, Jesus Christ makes the fruits of his Sacrifice available to all men and women, of every time and place. “The Eucharistic Sacrifice makes present not only the Mystery of the Passion and the Death of the Savior, but also the Mystery of the Resurrection, in which the Sacrifice finds its crowning. It is because Christ is living and risen that he can make the Eucharist ‘the bread of life’ (Jn 6, 35-48),‘living bread’ (Jn 6, 51)” (Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 14). 84