Inter-Faith Series, Holy Eucharist: How is the Holy Eucharist a sacrifice?

Question

How do we know that the Holy Eucharist is a true sacrifice? What did Jesus say about this sacrament?

Answer 1

It is the anamnesis of Calvary. Anamnesis is more than just head-memory but a mystical"being -there".

The Eucharist is the true sacrifice since it is the showing forth of Christ's death until He comes. It is in no way a repetition of or replacement for or adding to Calvary,but the living memorial of Jesus' death and resurrection. We also submit ourselves and all we are and have to God through the saving Blood of Christ.
That the Body and Blood are consecrated separately shows the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist /Thanksgiving.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church teaches the real Presence(as do the Orthodox church homes, Lutheran and a lot of Anglican church homes.) that the Eucharist is unquestionably Jesus no longer a symbolic remembrance of His Presence. The Catholic Church teaches that the bread and wine easily exchange in substance into the substance of the Crucified and Risen Christ even nevertheless the species et accidens( the chemistry,tangibles like flavor,appearances,etc) proceed to be unchanged. Jesus continues to be present day after the occasion of the Eucharist or Mass. no longer merely like the Protestants, the Catholic Church joins the Pre Reformation church homes in asserting that the Eucharist is a presentation of the unrepeatable sacrifice of Christ's loss of life and Resurrection. See Catechism of the Catholic Church Article 3 I-IV paragraphs1322-1419

Answer 3

The Holy Eucharist is the real and substantial body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ ... the very same person ... body, blood, soul and divinity ... that hung on the cross at Calvary, died, and rose again on the third day.

Jesus will forever BE the one time, once for all, eternal sacrifice of calvary, and when he becomes present on the altar at Mass, we participate personally in that most blessed of all human events.

Answer 4

The Last Supper, in the New Testament, was a meal taken by Jesus and his disciples on the eve of the passion. Jesus broke bread and passed a cup of wine among the disciples, identifying himself with the bread and the wine and linking the meal to his impending death on the cross. The meal was an anticipation both of Jesus' death and of the eschatological banquet referred to in several Old Testament passages and by Jesus himself. Christians see the Last Supper as the original of the Eucharist, Christ said as He held up the bread, "Eat, for this is my body", then held up the wine and said. "Drink, for this is my blood."

Answer 5

Christ said at the Last Supper:

Take you and eat this,this is My body....

Take you and drink this, this is My blood.........

Do this in memory of Me