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Essential Qualities of Liturgy
Essential Qualities of Liturgy
Leitos – people
Ergon – Work
In Christian usage
Sacrifice
• The Last Supper was celebrated as Jewish
Passover meal, but instead of looking back
at Exodus, it anticipated Christ’s own
Passover.
• The Eucharistic Celebration, however is in
the form of a meal (as in the Last Supper)
• The sacrifice on the cross is the theological
content of both the Last Supper (ritual
anticipation) and the Eucharistic
Celebration (ritual memorial), but the
liturgical form of both is a meal.
Whenever we celebrate
the Eucharist we should
always looked at it as a
sacrifice of Christ and
union of the whole
community…
The Eucharist: Word and Sacrament