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2836 This day is also an
expression of trust taught us by the 1165 Lord,26
which we would never have presumed to invent. Since it
efers above all to his Word and to the Body of his Son,
this today ~s not only that of our mortal
time, but also the today of God.
If you receive the bread each day, each day is today
for you. If Christ is yours today, he rises for
you every day. How can this be? You are my Son,
today I have begotten you. Therefore,
today is when Christ rises.27
837 Daily (epiousios) occurs nowhere
else in the New Testament. Taken in a temporal sense, this
word is a pedagogical repetion of this
day~,528 to confirm us in trust without
reservation. aken in the
qualitative sense, it signifies what is necessary for
life, nd more broadly every good thing sufficient for
subsistence.29 2633 aken literally (epi-ousios:
superessential), it refers directly
to the read of Life, the Body of Christ, the
medicine of immortality, 1405
without which we have no life within us.3°
Finally in this connection, its heavenly meaning is
evident: this day is the Day of the ii66
Lord, the day of the Feast of the Kingdom, anticipated in
the Eucharist that is already the foretaste of the Kingdom
to come. For this reason it is fitting for the Eucharistic
liturgy to be celebrated 1389 each day.
The Eucharist is our daily bread. The power belonging
to this divine food makes it a bond of union. Its
effect is then understood as unity, so that, gathered into
his Body and made members ofhim, we may become what
we rcceive... This also is our daily bread: the
readings you hear each day in church and the hymns
you hear and sing. All these are necessities for our
pilgrimage.3 The Father
in heaven urges us, as children of heaven, to ask for the
bread of heaven. [Christ] himself is the bread who,
sown in the Virgin, raised up in the flesh, kneaded
in the Passion, baked in the oven of the tomb,
reserved in churches, brought to altars, furnishes the
faithful each day with food from heaven.32
Who Trespass Against Us
2838 This petition is astonishing. If it consisted only
of the first phrase, And forgive us our
trespasses, it might have been 1425 included,
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