Explain the connection between the passover of the old testament and the sacrament of holy communion?

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in the new testament

Answer 1

The Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist replaced the Jewish Passover meal in the divine economy of salvation.

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).

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.

In the Old Covenant bread and wine were offered in sacrifice among the first fruits of the earth as a sign of grateful acknowledgment to the Creator. But they also received a new significance in the context of the Exodus: the unleavened bread that Israel eats every year at Passover commemorates the haste of the departure that liberated them from Egypt; the remembrance of the manna in the desert will always recall to Israel that it lives by the bread of the Word of God; their daily bread is the fruit of the promised land, the pledge of God's faithfulness to his promises. The "cup of blessing" at the end of the Jewish Passover meal adds to the festive joy of wine an eschatological dimension: the messianic expectation of the rebuilding of Jerusalem. When Jesus instituted the Eucharist, he gave a new and definitive meaning to the blessing of the bread and the cup.

By celebrating the Last Supper with his apostles in the course of the Passover meal, Jesus gave the Jewish Passover its definitive meaning. Jesus' passing over to his father by his death and Resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in the Supper and celebrated in the Eucharist, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the Church in the glory of the kingdom.

For the complete explanation please go to this link and look for section 1322 and following.
http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt1art3.htm
Peace and every blessing!

Answer 2

On a side note, the 'Sacrament of Holy Communion' is a misunderstood dogma of the Catholics. One doesn't ingest the transubstantiated Christ just like that, and allow the ingested literal 'bread' and 'wine' to end up in the toilet bowl... and that's supposed to make the partakers holy for what... 7 days? Up until next sunday's mass?

Christians should partake of Christ's teachings (body) and share in his sufferings (blood), instead of just the symbolic bread and wine to make the difference in their whole lives; and not just to relive the memory so they shouldn't forget Christ's ordeal?

Things have become all too trivially theatrical. No wonder here in the Philippines where Catholicism is the predominant religion, graft, corruption and injustice freely abounds.

Answer 3

Passover is the Jewish festival.
their is no holy communion in the bible. It is not biblical world but I think it is the practice of one relgion for the wrong misinterpretation of the bile which is in the New Testamenrt, and that is the last super of Jesus with his apostles but one religion made it as holy communion now.
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Answer 4

Christ is the NEW passover- his death is our ransom from death.

So while the Jews rejoiced that the Spirit of God passed over and did not kill the firstborn if they were prepared, Christians rejoice that Christ died to save us all from death after life.

Answer 5

one celebrates the freeing of the hebrews from slavery in egypt, the other is a ceremony in which christian ingest their messiah.

there is a similarity? it must be a very, very hidden one.

Answer 6

The Jews celebrate Passover by preparing the lamb which Moses ordered all the Israelites to sacrifice when they prepared themselves to be freed from the slavery of the Egyptians (A resemblance of sin). The lamb that they sacrificed was to be broiled and not cooked, (Resemblance the agony of Christ on the cross!) and it was to be eaten in a hurry before the Egyptians follow them while they are escaping. Their quick escape from the Egyptian land that day resembles the quick way that Jesus died on the cross. The blood of the sacrificed lamb was to be sprinkled on the doors of their houses so that when the Angel of Death see the blood, he will pass over the house and not kill the first born that belong to the family of that house, hence the name Passover was taken.
When Jesus came to John the Baptist, John recognized Jesus immediately and cried out before the people who were gathering to be batized: Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the World.

Now long before Jesus celebrated the Passover with His disciples, He referred to His body and His blood as the substance that gives Life Eternal to who ever eat from His body and drink from His blood. Jesus in John 6 32-37 stated that fact clearly to His disciples and to the Pharisees and the Scribes and to those who believed in Him and followed him wherever he went. His exact words are: "Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven; for the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." "Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread." Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent" "Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
Here is the connection: During the last supper of Jesus with His Disciples we see Jesus repeat what He had said before. Again the exact words of Jesus are stated in Luke 22:19-20. "And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me. "In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you"

Answer 7

The O.T is a pro-type of the N.T.

Answer 8

There is none insofar as I can tell.