“Do This In Remembrance of Me”

Easter is the greatest feast in our Liturgical calendar.

The Easter Season will officially end on Pentecost Sunday or will it? Easter really continues in our memory

all year long!

At each Mass that we attend, we remember Jesus’ death and resurrection and each Mass makes Easter present to us again.

The Greek word for remembering is “anamnesis”.  This remembering is not just a passive process but one by which we actually enter into the Paschal Mystery (the life, death, resurrection and ascension

of Jesus).

I like to think this way about the Mass. We know that God is beyond time and space.  What Jesus did in the past is present to God in our present. Our Mass makes Jesus’ life, death and resurrection present

to us now.

Through the Mass, we make Jesus’ saving deeds present to us today.  We are sent forth from each Mass to continue to make Christ present in our lives and in the lives of all the people we meet.

           Sr. Barbara Woeste, OSB