Benedict XVI: Jesus of Nazareth and the Church Greeting the Eucharist

I have been very busy of late and preparing for an important weekend so I have not had very much time to blog. I also have heavily reduced my Internet time during Lent, which is something that I plan to carry on doing. I would like to give myself more time to read and study. So, last night before going to bed, I began the Holy Father's second volume on Jesus. Discussing the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem and the statement that was being made concerning his activity around this entrance, the Holy Father moved us to see the humility of Jesus coming to us in the Eucharist. There is something of a living of Holy Week every time the Mass is celebrated when we think about it. Jesus comes again and again in the humble form of bread and wine and this is how the Church saw the celebration of Mass. The Holy Father put it as follows:

The Church greets the Lord in the Holy Eucharist as the one who is coming now, the one who has entered into her midst. At the same time, she greets him as the one who continues to come, the one who leads us toward his coming. As pilgrims, we go up to him; as a pilgrim, he comes to us and takes us up with him in his "ascent" to the Cross and Resurrection, to the definitive Jerusalem that is already growing in the midst of this world in the communion that unites us with his body.