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Eucharistic meditation for Feb 8:
Luke 18:7-8
This morning, we explored the question, What does prayer have to do with justice? We can now take up a related question, What does the Lord's Supper have to do with justice?
The answer is much the same. The Supper is many things: It is a celebration, it is food, it is the gift of Christ's body and blood through the Spirit for our nourishment; the Supper is the Christian Passover, Christian manna, Christian feast of booths. But in the words of institution, Jesus also calls the Supper "My memorial." A "memorial" in Scripture is not designed primarily to help US remember things, but to provoke GOD to remember His covenant. The rainbow is a memorial of God's promise, which HE looks at to be reminded of His covenant. So also the Supper is a memorial of Jesus before the Father, a visual and ritual reminder to God of what He did in Jesus, a plea before God to do again what He did in Jesus.
And here's where the Supper is intimately connected with justice, with God's determination to set the world right: For the cross and resurrection of Jesus is the manifestation of God's righteousness, His justice. As we do what Jesus commanded as a memorial of Him, we are calling on the Father to do it yet again, to manifest His righteousness in us and around us.
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Sunday, February 08, 2004 at 07:37 AM
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