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10/13/26 Remembering Tomorrow · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: At the consecration in the Mass, the last words that we say are, do this in memory of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are Christ's words at the Last Supper, do this in memory of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I've known some non-Catholic Christians who said before they would,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: in their church sometimes have what they called communion,
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  SPEAKER_00: which was sort of a sharing of bread and maybe grape juice or something,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they would Take it and they would sort of,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, try to think about Jesus, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Try to remember what Jesus did for them as they were receiving that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's very beautiful and sincere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the problem with that is that they were reading the English and not reading
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  SPEAKER_00: the gospel in the original.
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  SPEAKER_00: The original passage from the gospel Christ says,
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  SPEAKER_00: So the original, as you can tell, is not in English.
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  SPEAKER_00: The original is in Greek.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in Greek, Christ doesn't say, do this in memory of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He says, do this
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  SPEAKER_00: An anamnesis of me, as a memorial of me.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Judaism, anamnesis refers to the Jewish celebration, a celebration such as Passover.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the Jewish people, the celebration of Passover wasn't just remembering the Passover.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was entering into the mystery of Passover and receiving that mystery
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  SPEAKER_00: into yourself, being present again, At that saving moment of history.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so when the Jewish people celebrated Passover, the Passover was present to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They received God's gift.
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  SPEAKER_00: They passed out of Egypt as well with their ancestors.
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  SPEAKER_00: They received the saving power of God from that moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so what Christ is saying to us in the Eucharist is, don't do this thinking about me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't do this as a memorial of me in our modern sense.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do this as my anamnesis.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do this as the moment when you will be present at my saving action.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the Eucharist,
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  SPEAKER_00: when we participate in this mystery, we are present at the death We are there.
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  SPEAKER_00: We receive that grace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when we receive the Eucharist, we don't just receive bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: We receive the death and the new and everlasting life of Christ into ourselves.