Pope Francis published his apostolic letter, Desiderio Desideravi (DD), on June 29, 2022. At section 10, the Pope says:
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| Ghent Altarpiece D- Adoration of the Lamb, by Jan Van Eyck Credit: Wikpedia Commons |
Here lies all the
powerful beauty of the liturgy. If the resurrection were for us a concept, an
idea, a thought; if the Risen One were for us the recollection of the
recollection of others, however authoritative, as, for example, of the
Apostles; if there were not given also to us the possibility of a true
encounter with Him, that would be to declare the newness of the Word made flesh
to have been all used up. Instead, the Incarnation, in addition to being the
only always new event that history knows, is also the very method that the Holy
Trinity has chosen to open to us the way of communion. Christian faith is
either an encounter with Him alive, or it does not exist.
The Pope in DD presents his take on the Eucharist as an encounter with our Lord
in the Paschal Mystery.
