7. Eucharist - Sacrament of Easter 
The Eucharist is the Sacrament of sacrament of the Passover. On the eve of his Passion, Jesus says:
I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer (Luke 22:15). Establishing the Eucharist during the Easter own Jewish. He himself clearly indicate the reference to the Jewish Passover, the Eucharist. You can not ignore these links. You can not understand the Christian Easter and expressions like
Christ, our Passover is sacrificed (1 Cor 5:7), we do not know what has filled the heart of Christ and the apostles at the Last Supper during the Passover. What was that for them the Passover?
This festival dates back to Canaanite origin long before the exodus from Egypt. It has the same age as the spring, the flocks and shepherds. It is the sacrifice of Abel
(Gen 4:4). ...
Originally, the Passover is a family party. This is celebrated at night, the full moon of the vernal equinox on the 14th of the month Abib or ears (after the exile called Nisan). God offers himself to a young animal, born in the year to attract God's blessings on the flock. The victim is a lamb or a goat, a male without blemish must not break any bones. His blood is placed in a sign of preservation at the entrance of each dwelling.
Its meat is eaten with respect, as a sign of communion with God
Perhaps the
Easter comes from a party around the sacrificial lamb or fire (pasah has, among other things, this means: perform a ritual dance around at a sacrifice cf. 1Re 18,26).
L’Esodo darà poi a questa festa il suo significato definitivo: la pasqua nomade diventerà la pasqua ebraica. Ricorderà l’uscita dall’Egitto, la liberazione, l’alleanza rinnovata sul Sinai...
Sarà la festa, sempre attuale, dell’onnipotenza e dell’amore di Jahvè, per il passato, per il presente e per il futuro.
Gli ebrei (parola che significa: stranieri in un paese che non è il loro paese d’origine; quelli che vengono da altrove) vivono quattrocento anni in Egitto.
Verso il 1310 a.C. il faraone Seti I° inizia a sviluppare il delta del Nilo per la coltura intensiva del grano e la costruzione di città-deposito per il commercio. Il successor of Ramses II marks slavery: the Jews are forced to work hard ...
on Mount Sinai (also called Horeb) Moses experiences God as found in a burning bush, a God who reveals his name
God said to Moses: "I am who I am." Then he said: "Tell the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you" (Exodus 3:14).
God is he who is, who is
to act. It therefore proposes that the historical faith through acts that change the human adventure. This will be the key feature of authentic Christianity. God can not deny himself.
I (Jn 8:58), I am with you
every day until the end of the world (Mt 28:20), Christ says. And it is the Eucharist, in the first place, this ensures sacramentally present. It is an active, liberating, not sleeping for the privileged, irresponsible and lymph vessels. The God of the Eucharist is at the top of a path of liberation. To communicate means to leave, to walk after
rather than adoration or worship. The journey of the people in the wake of Yahweh, the Christian's journey to follow Christ, even unto death, are the form of the same faith, are the same movement, the same trip that continua.Il meal of the paschal lamb (Exodus 12) includes typical elements and circumstances that must be recognized and revived in the Eucharist.
Our Eucharist must be an Easter one pass. We are not here on earth.
We are not sedentary, settled, but nomadic. Communion is a food trip, a meal stop, walking without fail until the end of the crossing. Christ crucified is the true paschal lamb. Paul celebrates as
our Passover (1 Cor 5:7). Peter reminds us that we were freed
with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish or spot (1 Peter 1:19). Giovanni Battista
presents him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (Jn 1:29). The Evangelist John emphasizes che i giudei hanno celebrato la pasqua la sera del venerdì santo; hanno perciò immolato l’agnello nel pomeriggio, proprio nell’ora della morte di Gesù; e conclude il suo racconto su un dettaglio che fa, dell’immolazione dell’agnello, una profezia dell’immolazione di Gesù:
Questo avvenne perché si adempisse la Scrittura: Non gli sarà spezzato alcun osso (Gv 19,36). Nell’Apocalisse, infine, il salvatore ci è presentato per una trentina di volte come un agnello immolato e sempre vivo, in piedi, e signore della storia.
Gesù, l’agnello di Dio, nel suo sacrifico pasquale, nella sua cena pasquale: questa è la messa. Un popolo, la Chiesa, has eternal life because he eats his flesh and drink his blood (cf. Jn 6.53 to 58).
God's people go from bondage in Egypt to the promised land across the desert. The desert is the passage
bound to the land of promise. For Jews, the period was the best and the worst: the best to journey with God, without attachment to poverty, to the Sinai covenant, the worst for looks back to the pots of Egypt, the calf 'gold, to prostitution and apostasy (Num 20-25). Then, as now. Man's infidelity, the Church, and patience and forgiveness of God These enduring traits, cyclical, will remain until the end of time, le caratteristiche del cammino della coppia dell’alleanza: l’uomo e Dio. La liberazione non ha mai termine; le purificazioni del deserto sono sempre da ricominciare; le misericordie gratuite del Signore non si stancano; la terra promessa è sempre da conquistare...
Tutto questo
passaggio inaugurato con la pasqua ebraica, che apre il ciclo dell’esodo, continua e si consumerà nella pasqua della nuova ed eterna alleanza.
La carne dell’agnello e il pane azzimo della prima pasqua dell’esodo saranno sostituiti, durante il cammino, dalla manna miracolosa (Es 16).
Sfamasti il tuo popolo con il cibo degli angeli, dal cielo offristi un pane già pronto senza fatica, capace providing every pleasure and makes everyone happy. This manifested your food your sweetness to your children, it adapts to the taste of those who swallowed and turned into what everyone wanted (Sap from 16.20 to 21).
The manna will cease to fall only after the first celebration of Passover in the Promised Land (Jos 5.10 to 12).
It was manna from another image, another bread that came down from heaven. Jesus said
I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the desert and died, this is the bread which comes down from heaven so that one may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread will live forever and the bread that I will is my flesh for the life of the world (Jn 6.48 to 51).
The desert crossing is followed by the greatest event in Jewish history: the renewal of the covenant.
one time it had been concluded with a friend, Abraham, now resumed with the people of his descendants to make the people of God fully
.. a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exodus 19:5-6).
the Lord give Moses the Ten Commandments (the ten commandments) and the code of the covenant. The people agree. It remains to seal the pact in the formula due (Ex 24): a part of a ritual sacrifice of the covenant.
Moses ... built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribù di Israele. Incaricò alcuni giovani tra gli Israeliti d’offrire olocausti e di sacrificare giovenchi come sacrifici di comunione per il Signore. Mosè prese la metà del sangue e la mise in tanti catini e ne versò l’altra metà sull’altare. Quindi prese il libro dell’alleanza e lo lesse alla presenza del popolo. Dissero: "Quanto il Signore ha ordinato, noi lo faremo e lo eseguiremo!". Allora Mosè prese il sangue e ne asperse il popolo, dicendo: "Ecco il sangue dell’alleanza, che il Signore ha concluso con voi sulla base di tutte queste parole!" (Es 24,4-8).
Si tratta di diventare
fratelli di sangue, sposi di sangue .
Il sangue delle vittime è therefore be paid on the altar that represents God, and the people represented by twelve pillars: now one blood, one life moving in the two Contracting Parties and of the two as one being.
veins of the Son of God became the son of Abraham, will move it one blood, that blood will be on, and the blood of God A real man's blood will be the real blood of God
is the blood of 'alliance , paid the Sacrifice, the sacrifice of the cross and the mass. The blood of the eucharistic meal:
Take and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood shed .
I understand your fatigue in the follow up to this point
previous Easter celebrated by Jesus but is certainly not unimportant, if we are to understand the mystery of the Eucharist, that reflect, for the apostles at the Last Supper, and even more for Jesus, the feast celebrating, commemorating the history of salvation passed as is told in our Bible, the first verse of Genesis:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth , and the whole history of salvation in the future, until the last verse of ' Revelation:
Come, Lord Jesus .
Mass is a memorial commemorating the history of salvation.
Memorial, impressed in the memory, remember, is a call for both men and God
- a reminder for men of the benefits of God operated in the past to awaken the gratitude and loyalty;
- a reference to God all that he has accomplished, because remember his love.
The memory of God, however, is not a simple evocation of the past. God does not ruminate
his memories. His memory is always a new intervention and the current of his love. When God takes something
remember: it creates a new situation. Celebrating a memorial
of the past is a real event in this cause, and not simply an evocation.
The Passover of the New Testament, the Eucharist, therefore also plays this dual dynamic aspect of thanks by the Christians and commitment savior from God
The Eucharist is the great act of thanksgiving to the Father for everything he has done in creation, redemption and sanctification ; to everything he does now in the Church and the world, despite the sin of men will do everything to bring his kingdom in the fullness (World Council of Churches). The development is therefore the memorial of the death and resurrection of Christ, of his Passover, which merged with the Jewish Passover all its memorials from creation to Jesus Not only that, but it is also the celebration of
ultimi tempi , il tempo della Chiesa, fino alla creazione definitiva, la nascita definitiva degli uomini e del mondo finalmente liberati (cf. Rm 8,18-25).
Secondo la promessa (di Dio), noi aspettiamo nuovi cieli e una terra nuova, 
nei quali avrà stabile dimora la giustizia (2Pt 3,13).
Come l’ago magnetizzato è rivolto verso il polo, anche a distanza di migliaia di chilometri, così l’Antico Testamento è rivolto verso la persona del Cristo, il Cristo della pasqua, il Cristo delle nostre eucaristie. Il passato, il presente e il futuro confluiscono in lui:
Io sono l’alfa e l’omega, dice il Signore Dio, Colui che è, che era e che viene, l’Onnipotente (Ap 1,8).
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