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Maranatha

Aramaic: “Come, Lord!” The earliest liturgical acclamation of the Aramaic-speaking Jewish Christian community, expressing the Eucharist’s eschatological character as the cry for and foretaste of the Lord’s return. It connects every Eucharist to the Parousia and to the Kingdom of God.

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