And if we are to render the idea
of revelation theologically intelligible today, we need first to show that, prior to hearing the word
of revelation, we already have some pre-revelational relationship to the silent plenitude
of mystery from which any
possible disclosure
of religious meaning could come to us in the first place.
«Here it may help to recall that Pope John Paul II had made reference to the «sacramental character
of revelation» and in particular to «the sign
of the Eucharist in which the indissoluble unity between the signifier and the signified makes it
possible to grasp the depths
of the
mystery».