Christus heri, hodie et in saecula saeculorum. Uobecniająca pamięć misterium paschalnego

Bogusław NADOLSKI, TChr

Katedra Teologii Liturgii, Wydział Teologiczny, Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, ul. Dewajtis 5, 01-815 Warszawa, Poland , Polska

Abstrakt

Liturgy binds time and eternity together. In Jesus Christ, the Eternal God entered the human time and space. The thing of fundamental importance to understand time and eternity in the liturgy is anamnesis. It consists of such basic elements as recalling an event of the history of salvation (the remembering-rememorative dimension) and making present, through the Holy Spirit’s might, that event in liturgical acts (the demonstrative dimension). That making present is at the same time the beginning of eschatic fullness, id est the reality of Heavenly Jerusalem (the prognostic, eschatological dimension). The making present in the Holy Spirit of the Paschal mystery requires the acting of the participants in the liturgy in their concrete existential situations (the obligatory dimension). A connection between time and eternity is shown by the author on the basis of the liturgy of the Easter Triduum, which, being a commemoration of Christ’s death and resurrection and an announcement of His second coming, was laid as foundations of shaping the Church liturgical year.

Słowa kluczowe:

anamnesis, the Easter Triduum, epiclesis, eternity, kairos, liturgical year