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Thanksgiving to God for His unspeakable gift (2Cor 9:15) during the Eucharist and immediately after it

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  • 1. Pontifical University of John Paul II: Kraków, Poland

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The article provides detailed analyses and juxtapositions of St. Paul’s teaching and shows that his admiration for God’s unspeakable gift (2Cor 9:15) concerns the essential reality for the Church – the exchange of gifts not only material but, above all, spiritual among the members of the Church as the Body of Christ.

The paper shows that man gradually wins himself for full, sacrificial participation in this exchange of gifts with God and brothers to become similar to Christ, who offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sanctity of people. Man, in cooperation with the power of Christ and His Holy Spirit – especially during the Eucharist and the prayers immediately following it – has an opportunity to be taken by Christ out of the bondage of evil not-sharing and become the owner of himself to be the donator of himself.

Because the time immediately after Eucharist is nowadays not perceived by most believers as an exceptional opportunity to grow in spiritual power, the large part of the paper serves as proof for this exceptionality based on the relation between the Eucharistic rite and the Passover rite and between after-Eucharistic prayers and after-Passover prayers.

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This record contains the author’s English translation of the Polish book chapter: Wojciech Kosek, “Dziękowanie Bogu za Jego dar niewypowiedziany (2 Kor 9, 15) podczas Eucharystii i zaraz po jej zakończeniu,” in Anna Klich OSU, Stanisław Witkowski MS, and Bogdan Zbroja, eds., Wielowymiarowe dary ofiarowane człowiekowi przez Boga. Studium egzegetyczno-teologiczne wybranych tekstów biblijnych, Kraków: Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie. Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 2023, pp. 73–101. DOI: 10.15633/9788363241902.06.
The English HTML version is also available on the author’s website: https://www.adoracja.bielsko.opoka.org.pl/praca_doktorska/Thanksgiving_to_God_2Cor_9_15MUS.html

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