(Gv 6,51) Hallelujah, hallelujah. I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord, if one eats of this bread, he will live forever. Hallelujah.
GOSPEL (Lk 9:11b-17) Here, this is my body. + From the Gospel according to Mark 14, 12-16. 22-26 On the first day of the azzimas, when Easter was being sacrificed, the disciples said to Jesus: "Where do you want us to go and prepare, so that you can eat Easter?". Then he sent two of his disciples, saying to them: "Go into town and a man with a pitcher of water will come to meet you; follow him. Where he will enter, say to the landlord: "The Master says, Where is my room, where I can eat Easter with my disciples?". He will show you on the upper floor a large room, furnished and ready; there you will prepare dinner for us". The disciples went and entered the city, found as he had told them, and prepared Easter. While they were eating, he took the bread and recited the blessing, broke it and gave it to them, saying, "Take, this is my body. Then he took a chalice and gave thanks, gave it to them and they all drank it. And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many. Verily, I say unto you, I will never drink of the fruit of the vine until the day I drink it again, in the kingdom of God. After singing the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Word of the Lord.
FAUSTI- "Here, prepare for us" Jesus says to his disciples, indicating how to find a place for the feast. It's Thursday, the eve of Easter. Four times the verb "prepare" is used and four times the word Easter. We must therefore divide what the Master calls "my resting place, where I can eat Easter with my disciples". The whole Gospel of Mark is a long introduction to the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus, and it wants to take us to this place, where we can celebrate the Eucharist, our Easter. The passage suggests the necessary steps we must take to prepare for the Lord's Supper. Like the account of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, this is also narrated twice, first as a prophecy and then as the fulfilment of that prophecy. 1- We must first know what Easter is, because the Christian Eucharist is comprehensible only in its light, the fulfilment of that liberation of which the Exodus is promised. 2 - We must also be aware that this liberation has a high price: the blood of the Lamb sacrificed who is Christ. 3 - Jesus foresees what is coming and faces it with conscience. We must therefore know that his death is not an accident or a terrible surprise, but a budgeted cost: his Life for our life! 4 - Finally, Jesus not only knows, but he wants freely, indeed he pre-orders everything, exactly as in the scene of his entry into Jerusalem. 5 - In addition to this, the disciple must also look for the upper room: this is the central problem of the chapter. The man with the jug of water, the figure of the one who leads to baptism, will show how to find this place "where" you can eat, which means living with the Lord His own Easter. No one is more lost than the one who does not know where he is. One knows where he is if he knows where he comes from and where he is going. Man is always on the way, a sensible way because the journey begins at home and then returns home. "This is my Body. This is my Blood of the Covenant," says Jesus over the bread and wine at the last meal with his disciples. A sacrifice, whatever it may be, from man to God, is part of every religion. Christianity, on the other hand, is founded on God's sacrifice for man. The last Easter of Jesus becomes the Lamb's Supper, the feast in which we feed on Him, remember His Passion and drink of His Spirit and receive the pledge of future glory. "The summit and source of all Christian life "the Eucharist is truly everything and gives us everything" is all creation that becomes the Body of the Son, it is all humanity assumed in His flesh, it is God who gives Himself to man. The disciple knows his unworthiness and the dignity of the Gift and lives these distances with joyful love, adoring silence and songs of praise. It is filial life, the source of fraternal life. Around the table, in Communion with Him, the Community is born among us. If it is true that the Church incarnates the Eucharist, it is because even before the Eucharist gave birth to the Church.
(Gv 6,51)
RispondiEliminaHallelujah, hallelujah.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord,
if one eats of this bread, he will live forever.
Hallelujah.
GOSPEL (Lk 9:11b-17)
Here, this is my body.
+ From the Gospel according to Mark 14, 12-16. 22-26
On the first day of the azzimas, when Easter was being sacrificed, the disciples said to Jesus: "Where do you want us to go and prepare, so that you can eat Easter?". Then he sent two of his disciples, saying to them: "Go into town and a man with a pitcher of water will come to meet you; follow him. Where he will enter, say to the landlord: "The Master says, Where is my room, where I can eat Easter with my disciples?". He will show you on the upper floor a large room, furnished and ready; there you will prepare dinner for us". The disciples went and entered the city, found as he had told them, and prepared Easter. While they were eating, he took the bread and recited the blessing, broke it and gave it to them, saying, "Take, this is my body. Then he took a chalice and gave thanks, gave it to them and they all drank it. And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is shed for many. Verily, I say unto you, I will never drink of the fruit of the vine until the day I drink it again, in the kingdom of God. After singing the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Word of the Lord.
FAUSTI- "Here, prepare for us" Jesus says to his disciples, indicating how to find a place for the feast. It's Thursday, the eve of Easter. Four times the verb "prepare" is used and four times the word Easter. We must therefore divide what the Master calls "my resting place, where I can eat Easter with my disciples". The whole Gospel of Mark is a long introduction to the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus, and it wants to take us to this place, where we can celebrate the Eucharist, our Easter.
RispondiEliminaThe passage suggests the necessary steps we must take to prepare for the Lord's Supper. Like the account of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, this is also narrated twice, first as a prophecy and then as the fulfilment of that prophecy.
1- We must first know what Easter is, because the Christian Eucharist is comprehensible only in its light, the fulfilment of that liberation of which the Exodus is promised.
2 - We must also be aware that this liberation has a high price:
the blood of the Lamb sacrificed who is Christ.
3 - Jesus foresees what is coming and faces it with conscience. We must therefore know that his death is not an accident or a terrible surprise, but a budgeted cost: his Life for our life!
4 - Finally, Jesus not only knows, but he wants freely, indeed he pre-orders everything, exactly as in the scene of his entry into Jerusalem.
5 - In addition to this, the disciple must also look for the upper room: this is the central problem of the chapter. The man with the jug of water, the figure of the one who leads to baptism, will show how to find this place "where" you can eat, which means living with the Lord His own Easter. No one is more lost than the one who does not know where he is.
One knows where he is if he knows where he comes from and where he is going.
Man is always on the way, a sensible way because the journey begins at home and then returns home.
"This is my Body. This is my Blood of the Covenant," says Jesus over the bread and wine at the last meal with his disciples. A sacrifice, whatever it may be, from man to God, is part of every religion.
Christianity, on the other hand, is founded on God's sacrifice for man.
The last Easter of Jesus becomes the Lamb's Supper, the feast in which we feed on Him, remember His Passion and drink of His Spirit and receive the pledge of future glory.
"The summit and source of all Christian life "the Eucharist is truly everything and gives us everything" is all creation that becomes the Body of the Son, it is all humanity assumed in His flesh, it is God who gives Himself to man.
The disciple knows his unworthiness and the dignity of the Gift and lives these distances with joyful love, adoring silence and songs of praise. It is filial life, the source of fraternal life.
Around the table, in Communion with Him, the Community is born among us.
If it is true that the Church incarnates the Eucharist, it is because even before the Eucharist gave birth to the Church.