A life offered freely and because of love


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But Jesus’ freedom was fed and accompanied also by love: love for the Father, surely, but also for truth and justice, love for us, for the man. Yes, exactly in order to show that he was renouncing his life freely and because of love — not obliged by fate or fortuitous circumstances — Jesus anticipates through some signs what is about to happen to him. At table with his disciples, Jesus makes some acts on bread and wine accompanied by his words: his body is broken and given for the man, his blood is poured and given for everybody. And the sign of his imminent death, the sacrament of giving thanks, is the Eucharist that the Christian will have to celebrate in memory of Jesus in order to be involved in the deed of giving life for the brothers, for the others. At the end of that act, Jesus exclaimed: “Do this in memory of me”. In the celebration of that gesture made by their Master and Lord, the Christians who live in the world in all the times from Jesus’ death- resurrection till his return, his coming back in glory, will be moulded as his disciples, they will be part of Christ’s life, they will know that he, the Lord, will be with them till the end of history.