Current presence

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In Roman Catholic theology, actual presence is understood to be a form of the presence of Jesus Christ and his liberating, effectively experienced salvation act . In addition to the real presence in the Eucharistic signs of bread and wine, it is also believed to be present in the community of believers and the celebrating community .

The Second Vatican Council provided a narrow conception of a static, real presence of Jesus Christ in the form of bread and wine with a dynamic and personally understood actual presence, which is manifested in the “word of the proclamation and the celebration of the sacraments” (decree Ad gentes No. 9). In its Constitution Sacrosanctum concilium (no. 7) , the Council saw Christ “ever present” in its Church in liturgical acts, in the person of the priest who celebrates Mass , in the sacraments and in the proclamation of the Word, “since he himself speaks when the scriptures are read in the Church ”. Christ is always present “when the Church prays and sings, he who has promised: 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them' ( Mt 18.20  EU )”. With these provisions, the council took up theological developments of the 20th century in sacramental theology and the liturgical movement as well as the research of theologians such as Odo Casel , Romano Guardini , Hugo and Karl Rahner , Josef Andreas Jungmann , Otto Semmelroth and Leo Scheffczyk .

literature

  • Johannes Betz: The Eucharist in the time of the Greek fathers. I / 1: The actual presence of the person and the saving work of Jesus in the Lord's Supper according to the pre-Ephesinian Greek patristic. Freiburg 1955.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Kasper: The liturgy of the church. In: Walter Kasper: Gesammelte Schriften (Ed .: George Augustin , Klaus Krämer ) Volume 10: The liturgy of the church. Herder, Freiburg i.Br. 2010 ( ISBN 978-3-451-30610-5 ), p. 33.
  2. ↑ Arno Schilson: Presence of Christ . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 4 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, Sp. 352 f .