THE LITURGICAL MINISTRY OF THE WORD IN ISAIAH’ PROPHETIC THINKING (ISAIAH 5 / JOHN 15)
THE LITURGICAL MINISTRY OF THE WORD IN ISAIAH’ PROPHETIC THINKING (ISAIAH 5 / JOHN 15)

Summary/Abstract: Creation, as a product of the uncreated energies, seeks its fulfilment, expression and life through the confrontation with the other partners of the existence, and it is the purpose of sacrifice. As such, creation demands sacrifice and one cannot exist without the other. At the same time, sacrifice is satisfaction. However, it is not a satisfaction claimed by others, it is the satisfaction, the joy felt by both the one who brings sacrifice and by God. If Christ is the Vine (Song of Sol. 1:13; Isa. 5:1-4; Sir. 24:20, John 15:1) and the whole humankind represent the branches then sacrifice is as much part of this relationship as its fruits are. The one whose branch bears fruit by working in communion with the grace becomes a new man through the Eucharist since this is revived in Christ and strengthen in the Holy Spirit and is not unified with the Christ Who is born and dies for our sins but with the Christ Who dies at the end of His activity in order to resurrect to eternal life. Thus, the Eucharist offers us the power of delivering our whole existence to God in order to receive it back filled of an eternal life similar with the one of Christ, trough the resurrection. Through the Eucharist, the branches have the sap of the Vine that died and resurrected. At the same time, these branches are no longer subjected to decay since they bear within the body of the resurrected Christ as medicine for immortality or for eternal decay since “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day” (John 6:54).

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