Can someone explain the Lord's Supper/Eucharist?

Question

I do not understand why eating Jesus is not frowned upon. Why isn't this weird to more people? If eating someone is the ultimate communion, why isn't cannibalism more popular?

Answer 1

It is a classic way of connecting to the whole slain god/ slain crops metaphore. By "eating" of the slain god you become one with him/her. Just like drinking wine has become synomius with drinking the blood of the slain god. If you look back in time you see many pagan cults do much the same thing except in the pagan rites it is the symbolizm of eating and drinking the friuts of the earth. It was to these early people that eating of the bone and drinking the blood was a way of connecting to and giving life back to the creatures and grain they had slain to give themselves life. Christians were among the same tribal groups. The whole scraficial thing was in grained in the world at that time and it still remains a big part of most religions to give life to what was taken so that they may live symblicly through you.

Answer 2

Hi Honey. Taking Communion is NOT cannibalism. It is following the Lord's mandate. Unless you eat of the Flesh and drink of the Blood you do not have life in you... I myself (said the Lord) am the living bread come down from Heaven. This is my body (He continued) and He took bread and He blessed it and He broke it; this is my blood (and He took wine blessed and shared it). NOTE: He did not say 'pretend this is my body, pretend this is my blood... His final instructions on this were ...do this in commemoration of me... thus instructing His Church to continue the Sacrifice of the Bread and the Wine until He returned.

When the Priest blesses the bread and the wine in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the bread and the wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ without changing appearances. When the bread and wine does change (as it sometimes has), it is NOT CONSUMED, but seen as a miraculous sign. When the bread and wine is blessed (the change is called: transubstantiation, that is, it changes without changing appearances) it is consumed by the faithful so that sins can be forgiven. It is NOT cannibalism. It is... Faith. It is everlasting life in Christ.

Best.

H

Answer 3

You are not literally eating Jesus. At the last supper Jesus broke the bread and said take this and eat it is my body. Then he passed the wine cup and said drink this it's my blood and everlasting life. It's a ceremony to represent the last supper, not promoting cannibalism.

Answer 4

Mass is the term used to describe celebration of the Eucharist.....



That the Mass commemorates and continues in a mystical way the One Eternal Sacrifice that Jesus Christ instituted in a ceremonial way at the Last Supper and consummated in a supreme manner by giving up His life on the Cross. "As often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice you shall show forth the death of the Lord till He comes" (1 Cor. 11:26).

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Adoration—Glorifying Almighty God:

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Thanksgiving—For Benefits Natural and Supernatural:

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Prayer—For Mercy and Forgiveness:

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Expiation—Satisfaction of God's Justice.


The Eucharist—the clean oblation—is at once a sacrifice offered up to God in the Mass, the true sacrifice of the New Law, and a Sacrament of Christ's love for us unto eternal life. As a sacrifice, the Eucharist immolates in an unbloody manner Christ, who shed His sacred blood on Calvary and died on the Cross for us. As a Sacrament, it sanctifies and nourishes our souls with the Bread of Life.

Answer 5

Jesus used Bread at the Last supper , Eucharist is a man made idea

Answer 6

The wine & unleavened bread do Not turn into Christ's body.
Christ merely used them to symbolize the value of his perfect human life, in sacrifice to obtain life again for sinful mankind.

"This means my body ..."
"This means the blood of my covenant ..."
--Luke 22:19, 20; Matthew 26:26-28.

Reliving Jesus' Last Days on Earth
- Nisan 9-11 - "A Cave of Robbers
- Nisan 12-13
> Nisan 14, After Sundown
http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980315/article_01.htm

To believe that the bread & wine turn into tissue from Christ's body, one must believe that the Bible contradicts itself or God's principles. It would have been canniblism, & a violation of God's law (Gen9:3,4; Lev 17:10). However, it does not --ever-- contradict itself.

Consider also: "This cup means/is the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf." (Lu 22:20) ... The cup could not become the new covenant (which is an agreement), because it is a tangible object.

Answer 7

'God-eating' has been a religious practice for centuries. Also, it is not only an amazing way to be able to partake in communion (which, in this case, means 'to join in.' That's where they got the word from) with Jesus Christ himself, it is also symbolizing to us that Jesus is within us now, and that we should honor ourselves as a Tabernacle for Jesus' body, to keep ourselves free from sin.

Rock on Catholic school education!

Answer 8

do not study about Krishna, yet sounds like a karma lord. I respect your beliefs! I do believe in a form of karma.. if one's maximum important themes are not settled then the guy has to comeback to settle the subjects.. this save happening persistently till the subjects are solved or deemed unsolvable. Doubters of reincarnation call it dejavu! could your beliefs artwork properly for you!

Answer 9

When the last supper took place, did Jesus cut off His flesh and pass it around the table? Did He cut himself and fill the wine glass with His blood? No, He didn't do either one. What does He say to the disciples... "In remembrance of me".

Answer 10

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Jesus said: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; . . . he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and . . . abides in me, and I in him" (Jn 6:51, 54, 56).

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The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.

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The Eucharistic celebration always includes: the proclamation of the Word of God; thanksgiving to God the Father for all his benefits, above all the gift of his Son; the consecration of bread and wine; and participation in the liturgical banquet by receiving the Lord's body and blood. These elements constitute one single act of worship.

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The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ's Passover, that is, of the work of salvation accomplished by the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, a work made present by the liturgical action.

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It is Christ himself, the eternal high priest of the New Covenant who, acting through the ministry of the priests, offers the Eucharistic sacrifice. And it is the same Christ, really present under the species of bread and wine, who is the offering of the Eucharistic sacrifice.

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Only validly ordained priests can preside at the Eucharist and consecrate the bread and the wine so that they become the Body and Blood of the Lord.

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The essential signs of the Eucharistic sacrament are wheat bread and grape wine, on which the blessing of the Holy Spirit is invoked and the priest pronounces the words of consecration spoken by Jesus during the Last Supper: "This is my body which will be given up for you. . . . This is the cup of my blood. . . ."

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By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).

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As sacrifice, the Eucharist is also offered in reparation for the sins of the living and the dead and to obtain spiritual or temporal benefits from God.

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Anyone who desires to receive Christ in Eucharistic communion must be in the state of grace. Anyone aware of having sinned mortally must not receive communion without having received absolution in the sacrament of penance.

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Communion with the Body and Blood of Christ increases the communicant's union with the Lord, forgives his venial sins, and preserves him from grave sins. Since receiving this sacrament strengthens the bonds of charity between the communicant and Christ, it also reinforces the unity of the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ.

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The Church warmly recommends that the faithful receive Holy Communion when they participate in the celebration of the Eucharist; she obliges them to do so at least once a year.

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Because Christ himself is present in the sacrament of the altar, he is to be honored with the worship of adoration. "To visit the Blessed Sacrament is . . . a proof of gratitude, an expression of love, and a duty of adoration toward Christ our Lord" (Paul VI, MF 66).

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Having passed from this world to the Father, Christ gives us in the Eucharist the pledge of glory with him. Participation in the Holy Sacrifice identifies us with his Heart, sustains our strength along the pilgrimage of this life, makes us long for eternal life, and unites us even now to the Church in heaven, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and all the saints.

Peace and every blessing!