” “"The cultural context in which we live, often affected by religious indifference and secularism that tarnishes the horizon of transcendence highlighted Benedict XVI -, must not make one forget that the People of God, born of the Easter event, must go back to it as if to an inexhaustible spring". Sundays, explained the Pope, "have not been chosen by the Christian community, but by the Apostles, actually by Christ Himself", who "makes Himself present amidst His people and invites them to His table and announces Himself to them, so that they too, united and conformed to Him, can duly worship God". "I am particularly interested in highlighting he added the centrality of the Eucharist as the fundamental pillar of Sundays and of the whole ecclesial life. Actually, any Sunday Eucharistic celebration puts into effect the sanctification of the Christian people". Hence his wish that today’s study day "may contribute to the recovery of the Christian meaning of Sundays within the pastoral and within the life of all believers" and that the "Day of the Lord" may "regain all its relevance".” “
