Does Jesus have a resurrected body today?

[Hi727]

Hi, so according to Catholicism does Jesus still have a resurrected body? If he were to appear today would you see his resurrected body?

 

[Vico]

Hi, so according to Catholicism does Jesus still have a resurrected body? If he were to appear today would you see his resurrected body?

Catechism of the Catholic Church

659 “So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.” 532 Christ’s body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, as proved by the new and supernatural properties it subsequently and permanently enjoys. 533

532 Mk 16:19.
533 Cf Lk 24:31; Jn 20:19,26.

 

[TheLittleLady]

Yes and yes.

 

[Rasoleil]

I have a question that just came to mind. Jesus has a resurrected body, which I’ve always knew. And I understand the Real Presence, which I believe. But how can Christ have both a glorified body and become the Real Presence after consecration? Is it just one of those mysteries that is beyond our understanding?

 

[adamhovey1988]

Jesus rose from the Dead, this is THE central mystery of the Christian faith, so yes, and forever.

 

[JGD]

Resurrected bodies are not subject to the limitations of our mortal bodies here on earth. Jesus can take whatever form He desires, and be present at the same time in as many places as He wills to be.
Our Lord and God is a mighty God!

There are some saints who were able to “bi-locate”. You might find their biographies interesting. (Eg. St. Padre Pio, St. Martin de Porres, St. John Bosco, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Frances Xavier)

 

[Vico]

I have a question that just came to mind. Jesus has a resurrected body, which I’ve always knew. And I understand the Real Presence, which I believe. But how can Christ have both a glorified body and become the Real Presence after consecration? Is it just one of those mysteries that is beyond our understanding?

St. Pope Paul VI wrote in Encyclical Mysterium Fidei:

46. To avoid any misunderstanding of this type of presence, which goes beyond the laws of nature and constitutes the greatest miracle of its kind, (50) we have to listen with docility to the voice of the teaching and praying Church. Her voice, which constantly echoes the voice of Christ, assures us that the way in which Christ becomes present in this Sacrament is through the conversion of the whole substance of the bread into His body and of the whole substance of the wine into His blood, a unique and truly wonderful conversion that the Catholic Church fittingly and properly calls transubstantiation. (51) As a result of transubstantiation, the species of bread and wine undoubtedly take on a new signification and a new finality, for they are no longer ordinary bread and wine but instead a sign of something sacred and a sign of spiritual food; but they take on this new signification, this new finality, precisely because they contain a new “reality” which we can rightly call ontological. For what now lies beneath the aforementioned species is not what was there before, but something completely different; and not just in the estimation of Church belief but in reality, since once the substance or nature of the bread and wine has been changed into the body and blood of Christ, nothing remains of the bread and the wine except for the species—beneath which Christ is present whole and entire in His physical “reality,” corporeally present, although not in the manner in which bodies are in a place.

 

[Victoria33]

And this gets off-topic but clearly, Christ has appeared to people reportedly on earth, St. Faustina for example. So? Apparition or the Resurrected body? Pardon me, if this is OT.

 

[Titivillus]

But how can Christ have both a glorified body and become the Real Presence after consecration?

One might as well simplify this question to “But how can Christ become the Real Presence after consecration?” No?

 

[Dan_Defender]

Yes. He has a glorified body with characteristics such as impassibility, glory, agility and subtlety.