The First “Eucharistic Procession” and Centrality of Liturgy

The Book of Ezra-Nehemiah, as I suggested in an earlier article, is one of the most relevant biblical texts for today because it portrays the agonizing efforts of Church renewal. In this light, it’s far too little known that the Catechism of the Catholic Church states unequivocally that “the Remnant of the poor that returns from the [Babylonian] Exile is one of the most transparent prefigurations of the Church” (§ 710, emphasis added).

The Venerable Bede and Matthew Levering—commentators “both old and new” (cf. Matt 13:52)—each explore different ways in which the return of the Remnant community foreshadows the universal Church, but one must go to the rabbis to find one particularly timely “transparent prefiguration”: Namely, the first-ever “eucharistic procession.”

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