In many cases, particularly among the Orthodox today, the Eucharist is celebrated in dark churches so as to create the atmosphere of “mysticism” or even contrition, while the splendor of iconography or of the clerical vestments inherited from Byzantium tends to be regarded as an offence to the humility displayed by Christ in his earthly life. What the Church “remembers” in the Eucharist today is no longer the glorious eschatological King but the humble and crucified Jesus. It is a remembrance of the past, not of the future.
