Did Jesus eat his own body and blood?

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Hi everyone!

I was thinking about this thing, I know that Catholic Answer has an opinion about this.

But, what do you think? A Seminarist told me that Jesus didn’t eat his own body and blood, he just ate, in the pesaj (passover) the body of the lamb (but the old testament’s lamb, not the new testament’s lamb which is Jesus).

What do you think? Jesus ate his own body and blood in the last supper?
 
Socially and culturally, it is much more significant to share a meal than to serve a meal. A cook prepares a meal, or a waiter puts it on the table, and we feel no special bond to the cook or the waiter. When we share a meal, spending time together and eating the same food, it is a coming together, or a communion. Therefore I say he ate and drank the same as his apostles.
 
The 1994 Catechism of the Catholic Church makes this statement explicitly.

Catechism Section 1085
In the Liturgy of the Church, it is principally his own Paschal mystery that Christ signifies and makes present. During his earthly life Jesus announced his Paschal mystery by his teachings and anticipated it by his actions. When his Hour comes, he lives out the unique event of history which does not pass away: Jesus dies, is buried, rises from the dead, and is seated at the right hand of the Father “once for all.” His Paschal mystery is a real event that occurred in our history, but it is unique: all other historical events happen once, and then they pass away, swallowed up in the past. The Paschal mystery of Christ, by contrast, cannot remain only in the past, because by his death he destroyed death, and all that Christ is – all that he did and suffered for all people – participates in the divine eternity, and so transcends all times while being made present in them all. The event of the Cross and Resurrection abides and draws everything toward life.
Catechism Section 1104
Christian liturgy not only recalls the events that saved us but actualizes them, makes them present. The Paschal mystery of Christ is celebrated, not repeated. It is the celebrations that are repeated, and in each celebration there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that makes the unique mystery present.
Roman Catholics take Jesus at His word: the bread is his body; the wine is his blood.

From the Apostles at the Last Supper until today, the bread and wine of Eucharist looks and feels and tastes like bread and wine in the eating and drinking.

Similar to all of God’s Word, faith is essential. Faith in what? In the words of Jesus even though the bread does not look, feel, taste like flesh; even though the wine does not look, feel, taste like blood.

Medieval philosophers and theologians sought simply to label this simple biblical faith: Jesus said that bread is his body and wine is his blood even though it did not appear to change into visible flesh and blood.

Transubstantiation means the substance part of the bread and wine elements changes; but the accidental parts–sight, taste, smell, touch–do not. Catholics believe that since Jesus said it and He is God, he can do it. They believe! “Transubstantiation” merely labels it.

In everyday life, it is not at all uncommon to believe in things man cannot perceive by the senses: wind, electricity, love, peace, etc. All the more when Jesus says it.
 
Possibly. If you think about it, it was after this that the agony in the garden happened which would make sense.
 
Francis said:
…Transubstantiation means the substance part of the bread and wine elements changes; but the accidental parts–sight, taste, smell, touch–do not. Catholics believe that since Jesus said it and He is God, he can do it. They believe! “Transubstantiation” merely labels it.

In everyday life, it is not at all uncommon to believe in things man cannot perceive by the senses: wind, electricity, love, peace, etc. All the more when Jesus says it.
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I think, this answer is not talking about my question. (I think)

I’m Catholic, i know about transubstantiation, I know is real.
 
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Socially and culturally, it is much more significant to share a meal than to serve a meal. A cook prepares a meal, or a waiter puts it on the table, and we feel no special bond to the cook or the waiter. When we share a meal, spending time together and eating the same food, it is a coming together, or a communion. Therefore I say he ate and drank the same as his apostles.
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Yes, this is a nice argument.
 
Cuculmeca,

Jesus presents his own body, in his hand. God creates or rather recreates Himself, found external to Himself for the Human to behold, rather confront in an altogether different dimension. Mystery.

Since our dependable sources are the New Testament write ups, better scrutinise all the relevant contexts. Simple as that.

At the Last Supper, He said, Holding bread in His hand, " This is my body".
For the layman, it is CRAZINESS OF THE WORST ORDER.

Nothing is impossible with God. It Transcends , goes beyond human understandings,
We believe we are members of Lord Jesus. Again mystery. We die. Mystery.

By believing we gradually begin to understand in the unfolding of themes.
But now, we need to know whether, Jesus ATE HIS OWN BODY or not !!!.

Once confirmed, our thinking diverts into deeper layers of understanding.
The probing of Cuculmeca is intriguing. HALLELUIA.
 
Dear Cuculmeca,
The link provided is too deep. But surely it is worth the read.
 
cuculmeca said:
Hi everyone!

I was thinking about this thing, I know that Catholic Answer has an opinion about this.

But, what do you think? A Seminarist told me that Jesus didn’t eat his own body and blood, he just ate, in the pesaj (passover) the body of the lamb (but the old testament’s lamb, not the new testament’s lamb which is Jesus).

What do you think? Jesus ate his own body and blood in the last supper?
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Put yourself at the scene.

Jesus is offering everyone wine and bread. Yet he does not partake himself. Would you not harbor some minute iota of suspicion?

Of course he partook.
 
What is your point ? ,He changed the Bread and Wine into His Own Body and Blood,sure he part took

of it and shared with his Disciples ,what we say, is the first Holy Mass, it is the Body Blood soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ,thought it is in the form of Bread and Wine,A mystery and a miracle,which happens at each Mass even till this very day,till the end of Time, a perpetual sacrifice on Calvary on Earth. Lk 1:37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”
 
there is no doubt in my mind Jesus partook of the Holy Thursday sacrifice; why would Jesus hesitate about doing so if he asked His apostles to partake;

He was hungry and knew it would be His last Meal on this planet
 
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As been said, Jesus was sharing the meal. So yes, he ate, logically.

I know what you are trying to say - so the Lord ate his own body and blood.

This is the thing - it’s rather beyond the norm today as it was then. No wonder some disciples left. They could not pass over it.

It’s a mystery for us, especially if we too, find the Lord eating his own body and blood unthinkable.

Doctrinally, transubstantiation explains it. The Body and the Blood of the Lord are still in the appearance of the bread and the wine. They do not change, only their substances.

Similarly when we receive Holy Communion, we eat the bread and the drink the wine, in their appearance, only the substance change to that of the Body and the Blood of the Lord respectively.
 
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It does not matter what we think!

What matters is the Truth, and that is Jesus Christ in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, as revealed to and through His Church - His mystical Body on earth.

It is through the Church that we know that Christ was and is sacramentally present in the Eucharist. It is not actual flesh and blood. End of story.
 
People chew their nails, bite off and swallow the skin of hangnails, and lick off little bits of their own blood after an injury all the time. So it’s a profound thought, but it’s really not outside human experience in a smaller way.

And “Christ the eater and the eaten” isn’t much different from “Christ the [sacrificial] victim, Christ the priest.”
 
As icky as it sounds, we cannot eat without swallowing tissues that slough off of our palates. Our stomachs replace their cells rapidly as some of them are also digested by the same acids that digest our food.

The ‘cannibalism’ claims stem from pagan beliefs about the early Christians gathering at midnight or underground to consume the Body and Blood of the Lord.

So, it wasn’t (and isn’t) just representative!
 
My friend,

Are you aware that TIME does not exist for God?

God instituted this incomprehensible Sacrament for the benefit of Humanity; NOT Himself.

Continued Blessings

Patrick
 
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