The Eucharist makes the church. How?
This is not the whole of the answer, but: Through anamnesis and anticipation. Eucharist is a memorial of the death of Jesus; Eucharist is an anticipation of the marriage supper of the Lamb.
The church is a people of shared time, of shared past and future, the people distended in the “already,” the present, between shared memory and anticipation.
This is not a purely immanent account. Since that time is God’s time – God’s past and God’s future, the church is a people who share in the history of God with humanity.
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