Celebração e Vida: dois momentos inseparáveis da Celebração Eucarística

Abstract

Resumo: A Eucaristia é a celebração do Mistério Pascal de Nosso Senhor Jesus
Cristo. Nela faz-se memória da Páscoa de Cristo e da páscoa dos cristãos.
Olhando para a sua história, percebe-se que nos primórdios do cristianismo a
celebração eucarística tinha um desdobramento prático na vida do cristão. Com
o passar do tempo, a relação celebração e vida foi-se perdendo, e a celebração
tornou-se um rito, muitas vezes, distante da vida. Hoje, um dos nossos maiores
desafios é restabelecer esta unidade: celebração e vida são dois momentos
inseparáveis da Celebração Eucarística.

Abstract: The celebration of the Eucharist re-enacts the Paschal mystery of our
Lord Jesus Christ. It draws from the memorial of Christ’s paschal celebration
and the Christian passover celebrated annually ever since. It converts it into a
memorial which He himself instituted at the Last Supper on Holy Thursday and
handed it over as a legate of faith for the Church. A key element of the historical
survey on the initial stage of Christianity is the fact that the Christian community
celebrated the Eucharist not as passive recepient of an obsolete ceremonial
from the past but with special significance for daily life. However, in the course
of subsequent decades and centuries the relationship between the liturgical celebration
and its impact on human life came into disuse so that it turned nearly
into a liturgical rite or a religious ritual quite distant from what it had been at the
beginning. Today, the Christian community faces the challenge to re-establish
(re-establsh) once again the living relationship that binds together Eucharist and
community in terms of inseparable moments of the Christian celebration.