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brian
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Posted: Wed Feb 7th, 2007 03:30 am |
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If we receive Jesus in the eucharist and we at times chew when necessary and digest how is this not painful for Him since we are literally receiving body, blood, soul, and divinity. Is it because it is a apiritual reality and not a physical one, or the same reason that receiving is not cannibalism?
Also I know the mass is a re-presentation of calvary but a bloodless or painless sacrifice. Are different prayers and events supposed to take us through this? Like when the priest breaks the host and crubles it in, does that represent something like the breaking of Chrsits body (or was his body unbroken, well it was broken but no bones were broken?) Anyway, if this is the case does He not suffer because it is making present tthe same sacrifice? Is it making present the agony/passion or just making the body and blood present while remembering how they got there in the first place?
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Wed Feb 7th, 2007 10:36 am |
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Is it because it is a apiritual reality and not a physical one, or the same reason that receiving is not cannibalism?
This is correct. Remember that the Eucharist is Christ’s eternal, resurrected and glorified body and blood, not just the physical being that walked the earth 2,000 years ago. This is the new creation, through which he makes all things new.
Regarding the breaking of the host: yes, it can be seen as a memorial of the passion (this goes well with our words in the Mass: “Lamb of God…”), but it is also a symbolic gesture indicating that Jesus comes to each one of us without diminution or dilution. Each particle, each drop of the Eucharistic species is Jesus, whole and entire, and every Christian throughout the world can partake of him wholly and without lessening him for anyone else.
David
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