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Every year the Church celebrates the Redemption wrought by Jesus Christ, beginning on Sunday, the Lord's day, the day of the week that takes the name of the Risen Lord, until it culminates in the great solemnity in the annual Easter. However, it is all the mysteries of the life of Christ that must be reviewed and made present.
If Christ is a contemporary of every man in every time, his actions, in as much as he is God the Son, are not events of the past but acts that are always present in every time, with all their goodness and power, which, because of this, bring salvation to all those who recall them. The actions of Jesus Christ are like his words they are eternal: they communicate and explain life; that is why they do not pass, beginning with the supreme act of his sacrifice on the cross; this is represented or renewed in as much as it is not a past event made remote by the passing of the years, his saving work is always present. And we recall it, obeying His invitation: “Do this in memory of me.”
It is useful to understand the concept of memory to understand the liturgical season: it does not mean a recalling of the past as one remembers past experiences, memory of this sort describes a human capacity capacity, given by God, to understand in unity today the past and the future. In fact, a man who loses his memory, not only forgets the past, but does not understand what he is in the present, and much less is he able to project himself in the future. ...
If Christ is a contemporary of every man in every time, his actions, in as much as he is God the Son, are not events of the past but acts that are always present in every time, with all their goodness and power, which, because of this, bring salvation to all those who recall them. The actions of Jesus Christ are like his words they are eternal: they communicate and explain life; that is why they do not pass, beginning with the supreme act of his sacrifice on the cross; this is represented or renewed in as much as it is not a past event made remote by the passing of the years, his saving work is always present. And we recall it, obeying His invitation: “Do this in memory of me.”
It is useful to understand the concept of memory to understand the liturgical season: it does not mean a recalling of the past as one remembers past experiences, memory of this sort describes a human capacity capacity, given by God, to understand in unity today the past and the future. In fact, a man who loses his memory, not only forgets the past, but does not understand what he is in the present, and much less is he able to project himself in the future. ...
