Subject to the laws of space and time, we are as if Truly in coming, albeit not to the high mountain of Sinaiīut to the Christian church to the Sacrament of theĮucharist, we depart from our usual spiritual rails and Master’s hospitality and the immortal table in the Ye faithful and with minds uplifted, delight in the Sacrament to lift up our minds on high to God: “Come Today’s services call us as we come to the divine To touch Him, and take Him as food and be united with Him, Longing “was given to us by Christ, leading us toĮxceedingly great love, and He showed His love to us,Īllowing those who desire it not only to see Him, but also We had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied (Jobģ1:31). The Savior, so that his loving servants said, Oh that Heard in another Old Testament reading, prefigured Christ There are many other indications and prophecies.Īlso the righteous Job, the chosen of God, about whom we Prefiguring of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Melchisedek, who was a sign of Christ, met Abraham, as the With which the mysterious priest of the Most High God And heĬontinues about the new grace: This is the bread whichĬometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, andĮxegetists of Holy Scripture see in the bread and wine And Christ speaks of old Israel: Your fathersĭid eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. Rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread Manna-heavenly bread, which filled them in theĪccording to the words of the Psalmist David, the Lord Of Communion, to Moses and the people of Israel was sent ![]() Nevertheless, as the prefiguring of the future Sacrament Old Testament had not been removed from his eyes. ![]() Not converse with God face to face, for the veil of the There God appeared to him in the sound of thunder and theįlash of lightening. Through which mortal man, easily inclined toward sin,Įnters into communion, into the closest union with hisĪt the Vespers we have just served, we heard the story of ![]() Point to the great gift of Christ’s Holy Mysteries, Images and symbolic stories, many of which prophetically The services of Great Lent are filled with Old Testament Served the first Divine Eucharist, giving his disciplesĪnd apostles His Most Pure Body and Blood in the image of Thursday we remember the Last Supper, when our Lord JesusĬhrist established the Sacrament of Holy Communion, and Today, brothers and sisters, on Great and Holy
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