TGR carries the latest post in my series on the sacraments and vocation:

The sacraments also take place within history. We will focus next time on their presence within God’s material creation. Here, we are looking more at time than at space. While the sacraments of the church are prefigured in Old Testament rituals, their institution by Christ represents the outbreaking or eruption of the church as a result of his life, death, resurrection and ascension. They are the marks not only of the church, but of the progress of redemptive history. And, of course, they are eschatological, as the Great Commission (“until the end of the age”) and Paul’s instructions (“proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes”) make clear.

Our daily work is, like the sacraments, a sign that Christ has arrived and is working. As we enact the long-term consequences of his redemptive work in our own work, we proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. And he is with us in our daily work, even to the end of the age.

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