‘The day of salvation dawns’ from the Table of Life. This is the eighth day, the day of the age to come which is will manifest itself ‘when this corruptible and transient time ceases to be’. The day of the Divine Liturgy is the day of the Kingdom which is “...coming, and now is.” (John 4:23) For in the Liturgy, we live through past events and we give thanks for future events which have already been bestowed upon us: [for] granting us Thy Kingdom that is to come we thank Thee.’

“The Divine Liturgy – A Commentary in the Light of the Fathers” by Hieromonk Gregorios
Quotations from St. John of Damascus, St. Gregory of Nyssa