The Christian year itself is an ancient inheritance reminding us that we are part of a people that is older than our present, that we are heirs of tradition. Thus we are constituted as a people who live between times, remembering and hoping at the same time. Each week this between-ness is performed in the Eucharist, which both invites us to “Do this in remembrance of me” and by doing so to “proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
