The first document published by the Second Vatican Council was the Constitution on the Liturgy. The Council Fathers’ goal was to help believers throughout the world recapture the original meaning and power of the Eucharist: the sacramental ACTION which draws us into the ACTION of Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection, so we might say a fuller “Amen!” (ACTION) to living it out.” “Taking part in the Eucharistic Sacrifice, they (not only the priest) offer the divine victim, with themselves, to God.”


