Cosmic Remembrance
"Do this in remembrance of me" means more than "this meal is a memory prompt". It means more than the sort of trip down memory lane we enjoy with the family photograph album. Instead the word 'remembrance' means 'anamnesis'--a special kind of active and dynamic remembrance in which the event from the past comes alive in the present.
At Passover the Jews believed in a kind of time travel. Through the ritual they were being taken back thousands of years to that night in Egypt where God delivered them from slavery through the death of the Sacrificial Lamb. The time travel also went the other way--the event from the path was brought forward to be experienced in the present. So it is with the 'anamnesis' or remembrance of the Eucharist. We are taken through the ritual back through time to the foot of the cross and The once for all sacrifice of Christ on the cross is brought forward into the present moment and its benefits applied to us.
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