The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

So the community of the cross is a community of celebration, a Eucharistic community, ceaselessly offering to God through Christ the sacrifice of our praise and thanksgiving.

The Christian life is an unending festival. And the festival we keep, now that our Passover Lamb has been sacrificed for us in a joyful celebration of his sacrifice, together with a spiritual feasting upon it. In this celebratory feast we are all participants.

But what is it that we share in? Not in the offering of Christ’s sacrifice, nor even in the movement of it, but only in the benefits he achieved by it. For this costly sacrifice, and for the precious blessings it has won for us, we shall never cease, even in eternity, to honour and adore the Lamb.

from The Cross of Christ