Eucharistic Meditation for Second Sunday in Advent:
Luke 22:20
Martin Luther said that the Supper is the gospel. That’s true in a lot of different ways, but one way that it is true is that in the Supper we see and experience the reality of “God for us.” That’s what Jesus says explicitly in the words of institution: “This is My body, which is given for you.” Why did God the Son take a body? So that it could be offered for you, for your salvation, for your life and for your food.
And this is God’s eternal will. From all eternity, God freely determined and decided that He would create a particular kind of world, the world we know and not another. From all eternity, God determined and decided that His creative and providential work would move in a particular direction, have a particular goal and use particular means. In the gospel, that purpose and that goal and those means are unveiled to us, the mystery is made known: In the gospel we learn that it is God fixed, determinate, eternal will to give Himself FOR YOU.
So, I invite you to come to this table with all confidence and joy, and receive here the good news, the gospel made food, God’s body given for you.
Dear Reader,
Can I be direct with you?
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