MARTYRDOM AS EUCHARISTIC SACRIFICE
MARTYRDOM AS EUCHARISTIC SACRIFICE

Summary/Abstract: Living the experience of the Kingdom of Heaven through the glory of Christ, the Church contemplates the eternal life in the martyrs' words and gestures. Moreover, the Church participate in the unbroken life of the Spirit from here and therefore each community, mystical engaged through the Holy Liturgy in the mystery of martyrdom and through the sufferance of the martyrs in this world, winning the spiritual clarity expressed in an ecclesial way of being: “stay strong in your faith and love each other”. If the Church ignores this spiritual and liturgical paradigm and denies it, then he risks forgetting his own nature and his vocation. The Church and the martyrdom are both true. The most profound interpretation of martyrdom is given by the word of Church about the eschatological grace, by which the martyrs fulfil themselves and conquer the world. The martyrdom confesses before the entire world that in him is the real sacrifice. At the same time, the act of martyrdom asserts before the Christians from all times and all over the world, telling that their death can be in vain, but sowing the authentical way of the believer who got dressed in Christ through the Mystery of the Baptism.

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