Prayer and Song for Forty-Seventh International Eucharistic Congress
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Meaning of the logo
The logo for the 47th International Eucharistic Congress is a graphic composition that forms a unit, in style and content, with the logo for the Great Jubilee.
1. The logo for the Great Jubilee: In the blue circular area indicating the universe, there is a cross that holds up and rules humanity from the five continents, which are represented by five doves.
The cross is drawn with the same colours as the doves to signify the mystery of the Incarnation: Christ takes on the same human condition "by becoming similar to men". God enters into the history of humanity and redeems it.
The light that emanates from the centre is meant to indicate that Christ is the light that illuminates the world. He is the "only Saviour, yesterday, today and always".
The circular form depicting the doves stresses the spirit of solidarity that animates the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.
2. The logo for the Eucharistic Congress: This is blended together with the logo for the Jubilee year which makes up its central part.
The Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's love, the only Saviour of the world, is indicated by the symbols of the wheat and the grapes.
The colours of the spikes of wheat and the vine take up the colours which indicate in the Jubilee logo Christ's Incarnation and redeeming sacrifice on the Cross, and those of the doves depicting the continents. The variety of colours expresses the fact that the Eucharist is grafted on the cultures and the everyday life of human experience. The Eucharist is an experience of communion and sharing of peoples around the one Head: "I am the vine, you are the branches", and of sharing in intimacy with the risen Lord: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him".
The logo, as a whole, evokes graphically the vital energy that springs from Christ, the "bread of life". The explosion toward heaven of the spikes and branches suggests openness to the eschatological hope of people and of the cosmos, of which the Eucharist is the promise and anticipation.
The logo is the exclusive properly of the Vicariate of Rome. It was registered on 9 June 1998 at the Ministry for Industry, Commerce and Crafts, Office for Patents and Trademarks of Rome.
| Prayer Lord God, With gratitude in our hearts Enlivened by his Holy Spirit, We make this prayer Amen. |
| Eucharistic Song Original Italian text and music by Marco Frisina Bread of new life You are the sublime fruit That which Adam could not touch You, the immolated Lamb, Manna in the desert Wine that gives us joy From the vine to the branches You invite us to your table Sign of eternal love In your blood is life In the miracle of the loaves Everlasting priest, Your body is the temple True body of Christ From the ends of the world To you, Father, praise, |
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