I materiali di cui si serve l’eucaristia cristiana non sono affatto una semplice materia bruta, ma sono pietre già squadrate e sapientemente lavorate. Non possiamo partire da zero con le formule eucaristiche cristiane, come non si può partire da zero col vangelo. Nei due casi, per un disegno provvidenziale, abbiamo un Antico Testamento che non è possibile skip to pie 'peers. In fact, if providence has deemed this necessary step, we have neither the right nor the ability to erase it with a sponge.
The Eucharist is dominated by the idea and the reality of the alliance. It is rooted in the alliance, the alliance accomplished.
who is married to her finger, the sign of the covenant: it means the total gift, body and soul, for life, in love. ...
But we know what the Alliance with a capital, of which the others are only sacrament, the symbol?
The eucharist is the sacrament covenant, the blood of .
As we understand it? How do we live?
Reading the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, Jesus is called son of Abraham (Mt 1:1, Lk 3, 34). The two songs
evangelicals - the Benedictus and the Magnificat, that the Christian liturgy takes every day to praise and Vespers, as the pillars of his faith and his hope - do not remember Moses or some other personage of sacred history, but Abraham as the man with whom God established the covenant by oath and promise You remember his holy covenant, the oath he swore to Abraham, our father (Luke 1.72-73); He has helped his servant Israel remembering della sua misericordia, come aveva promesso ai nostri padri, ad Abramo e alla sua discendenza per sempre (Lc 1,54-55).
Con Abramo la Bibbia entra nella storia. Tutto ha inizio verso il 1850 a.C. in Mesopotamia (Gen 11,31-32). Proprio in questo luogo e in questo tempo Dio prende l’iniziativa di rivelarsi . Abramo vive un’esperienza interiore che lo domina: Dio gli parla. Vattene dal tuo paese, dalla tua patria e dalla casa di tuo padre... (Gen 12,1). Quando Dio parla lo fa sempre per portarci verso un altrove ; verso se stesso.
Dio non si rivolge a nessuno per lasciarlo nella situazione precedente, ma gli ordina di andare oltre, di passare ad altra terra and other deities. First step of faith: let go, no safety net: to trust him.
Go 'to the land that I will show you (Gen 12:1). Here the adventure begins with Abraham and the people on the way in which we are engaged too. The only country where you can stop God is
Abraham friend of God (Isaiah 41:8), he left: he believed in the divine word and waited impassively. For this nobody was like him in glory (Sir 44.19). The Jewish and Christian traditions proclaim father of all who believe (Rom 4:11).
whole history of God's people, throughout the history of peoples, the whole story Part of salvation from this call and this response.
From this open source in the sterility of Abraham, replaced by open source in the virginity of Mary, and their dual faith that says yes without batting an eye. Is there anything too hard for the Lord? (Gen 18.14).
This sentence announces the miraculous conception of Isaac, and is taken to ensure the Annunciation by the angel to Mary's virginal conception of Jesus Nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37). This faith
prepares and welcomes the incarnation of the Son of God, the son of Abraham, son of the Virgin, universal brother di tutti gli uomini, vita e salvezza del mondo.
In realtà con la sua pasqua di morte e di risurrezione, Gesù figlio di Abramo,... Figlio di Dio (Lc 3):
- entra personalmente nella beatitudine eterna, la vera terra promessa che noi non conosciamo, e ne apre le porte a tutto il genere umano;
- attira a sé tutti gli uomini (Gv 12,32) e ne fa una sola famiglia di fratelli, un solo corpo (Rm 12,5) e li conduce al Padre, al quale è passato (Gv 13,1).
Tutti voi siete figli di Dio per la fede in Gesù Cristo, poiché quanti siete stati battezzati in Cristo, vi siete rivestiti di Cristo. Non c’è più giudeo né greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise (Gal 3 26-29).
Abraham is greater than Moses. Therefore the priesthood of Aaron, brother of Moses, Jesus Christ will be replaced by a higher priesthood, the order of Melchizedek (Heb 7:1-28), from the priesthood that Abraham us to discover: that of our Eucharist.
Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine was a priest of God Most High and he blessed Abram (Gen 14.19-19).
Psalm 110 promises The perpetual priesthood of Christ: You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek (Ps. 110.4). The Hebrews sums up the mystery of salvation history in these terms: In the days of his earthly life (Christ) offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who could save him from death, and was heard for his godly fear, though he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered and being made perfect he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek (Hb 5.7 to 10).
Melchizedek offered bread and wine (Genesis 14:18). It is a gesture of hospitality, a ritual of welcome for foreigners. It is a meal shared between two races, a sign of fraternal alliance. In this bread and wine presented to Abraham, the holy fathers and see a figure with a real sacrifice of the Eucharist. This interpretation has entered the canon of the Mass: Turn your gaze on our offer peaceful and benign as you want to accept the gifts of Abel, the just, the sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith, holy bread and wine offered by Melchizedek , your high priest (The Roman Canon).
After the meeting with Melchizedek, Abraham sees deepen his experience of God in covenant (Gen 15.4 to 18). God, as a flaming torch, agrees to be cut in half if he fail in his promise. Abraham does not ask anything, do not bargain with him. And Abraham did not give anything, does not promise anything, say anything (cf. Gen 15).
This is the radical difference with the human alliances. God promises everything and gives everything. God is committed to lead man to happiness in this promised land of God affects us personally, just as Abraham's. In spite of our unfaithfulness, God can not contradict itself, he remained faithful. God's love is unconditional. If we are faithless, he remains faithful, he can not deny himself (2 Timothy 2:13). From now on the security of Abraham God's faithfulness will
After ten years of wandering life, Abraham had the promised son, Isaac. An only child.
Now God says, Take your son, your only son whom you love, Isaac, is' the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on a mountain that I will show you (Gen 22:2).
Abraham the believer, in hope believed against hope, and so became the father of many nations ... He never wavered in their faith (Rom 4:18-19). By faith Abraham, when put to the test, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises offered up his only son, to whom it was said, In Isaac your offspring that will nome. Egli pensava infatti che Dio è capace di far risorgere anche i morti: per questo lo riebbe e fu come un simbolo (Eb 11,17-19).
Un simbolo del sacrificio e della risurrezione di Cristo.