Praying Shapes Believing by Leonel L. Mitchell

Author:Leonel L. Mitchell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780819224767
Publisher: Church Publishing Inc.

The bread which we break is a sharing of the Body of Christ.

We being many are one bread, one body,

for we all share in the one bread. (BOS: 15)

The bread is broken in silence (BCP: 364), but an anthem called confractorium in the Book of Occasional Services (BOS: 15) may follow the initial fraction. The anthem “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us; Therefore let us keep the feast” is printed in the texts of both Rite One (BCP: 337) and Rite Two (BCP: 364). The Agnus Dei is an alternative or additional anthem. The Book of Occasional Services includes fifteen confractoria for optional use (BOS: 15-19).

Both “Christ our Passover” and “Lamb of God” use the image of Christ as the paschal lamb. Throughout the eucharist we encounter both Paschal and sacrificial language. We have already discussed the eucharist as the Christian Passover, the transitus, or passing over from death to life with Christ. We have seen how it gathers up all the meaning of the Jewish Passover into itself and proclaims the new Exodus in the death and resurrection of Christ. We recognize that we celebrate the Paschal Feast by eating and drinking the food of the reign of God: the broken bread and the cup poured out which are the Body of the true Paschal Lamb and the blood of the new covenant. We must now turn our attention to the eucharist as the Christian sacrifice.

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