Redemptive power of Christ Crucified in lesser euchology in double celebration of liturgical year of Paul VI’s Roman Missal

The analysis of euchological texts drawn from two different liturgical celebrations, namely the Palm Sunday and the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, focuses the theological thought on Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. The fundamental fruit of this Paschal Mystery is the eternal life for every believer. A spectrum of every euchology is related to eschatological thought for the great number of texts from the currently used Roman Missal refer to the eternal life with God. Although these two celebrations share common theology and reveal the truth about redemption of human soul from sin and damnation, they differ from each other in totally different moments of their celebration as well as circumstances when they were introduced to the Liturgical Calendar. Nevertheless, the role of those texts is to reveal the unquestionable truth: Christ’s Cross is the altar, on which Christ, being obedient to his Father’s will, sacrificed himself for our sins. All these thoughts lead to one common aim – the eternal life with God. The liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council assumes a return to original texts which were used to celebrate the Eucharist. Therefore, the analysis presents the juxtaposition of the current euchologies and the oldest Roman sacramentaries: Gelasianum and Gregorianum-Hadrianum which are juxtaposed with the Missal of St. Pius V and the Latin-Polish Missal, in which some modifications can be observed as well as differences in the selection of the Eucharistic texts