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act of his love, the life-giving gift of himself. In
the Eucharist we find the intersection of faith’s
two dimensions. On the one hand, there is the
dimension of history: the Eucharist is an act of
remembrance, a making present of the mystery
in which the past, as an event of death and res-
urrection, demonstrates its ability to open up a
future, to foreshadow ultimate fulfilment. The
liturgy reminds us of this by its repetition of
the word
hodie
, the “today” of the mysteries of
salvation. On the other hand, we also find the
dimension which leads from the visible world
to the invisible. In the Eucharist we learn to see
the heights and depths of reality. The bread and
wine are changed into the body and blood of
Christ, who becomes present in his passover to
the Father: this movement draws us, body and
soul, into the movement of all creation towards
its fulfilment in God.
45. In the celebration of the sacraments, the
Church hands down her memory especially
through the profession of faith. The creed does
not only involve giving one’s assent to a body
of abstract truths; rather, when it is recited the
whole of life is drawn into a journey towards full
communion with the living God. We can say that
in the creed believers are invited to enter into
the mystery which they profess and to be trans-
formed by it. To understand what this means,
let us look first at the contents of the creed. It
has a trinitarian structure: the Father and the Son
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