Sacrificium Amoris: uma análise positiva da dimensão sacrifical da Eucaristia

Abstract

After several centuries, with a vision of sacrifice, revelation, relationship with God, faith, liturgy and practice, and with the renewal of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the Church was able to review the way of expressing the faith being more adapted to the world. This way, the Church tries to recover the vision of God as love and mercy, taking as reference Jesus Christ, who cares about the human being. Therefore, there is a necessity to make the faithful deepen their faith and put into practice in their daily life. However, nowadays, we can see some resistance; gospel values are "interpreted" in the manner of each one; suffering and, sacrifice gain a sense of "redeemer" like the Old Testament rather than the sense of the New Testament, the donation and delivery the life for the people .Therefore, in the light of the Paschal Mystery and a brief analysis of some Eucharistic prayers and anaphora, this work aims to show the positive dimension of the sacrifice present in the Eucharist, allowing, thus, an authentic experience of Jesus Christ and how to put into practice such experience, with responsibility and commitment, from the base of God's love, the agape, because unfortunately, nowadays, still values so much the negative dimension of this following due a liquid society that has developed over the years