Eucharist and Incarnation

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Muttering things about “the Seamless Garment of Catholic Theology,” I wonder about the nature of the God-man in the Eucharist. The same Jesus is in heaven as is on the altar. There are weird parallels going on in my brain between different theories of the Eucharist and different heresies connected with the Incarnation. I don’t have the energy or bra(name removed by moderator)ower to rightly connect heresy with theory, but I think they could be lined up. Or am I babbling again? God loves the idea of the Incarnation so much that He just can’t stop doing it. Comments?
 
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Muttering things about “the Seamless Garment of Catholic Theology,” I wonder about the nature of the God-man in the Eucharist. The same Jesus is in heaven as is on the altar. There are weird parallels going on in my brain between different theories of the Eucharist and different heresies connected with the Incarnation. I don’t have the energy or bra(name removed by moderator)ower to rightly connect heresy with theory, but I think they could be lined up. Or am I babbling again? God loves the idea of the Incarnation so much that He just can’t stop doing it. Comments?
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I like to think of it this way. Christ is so utterly serious about the Incarnation, about uniting God and man, divine nature and human nature, that He insists on keeping His human nature always before us, along with His divine nature. Thus in the Eucharist, He comes to us not only His spiritual self, but His bodily, corporeal self (which is a reflection of His human nature, not His divine nature). Further, in the Eucharist, He feeds not only our spiritual selves but our bodily, corporeal selves.

In the Eucharist Christ continues to insist that our bodily nature, and by implication all of creation, is very good; it is not a second-class aspect of our humanity, or something to be discarded in heaven.
 
Also, Christ promised to be with us always, until the end of time. Through the Eucharist, he fulfills this promise.

It’s how we come to be united with Him, throughout the generations.

CARose
 
As my former professor Fr. Brian Mullady, OP would say, “All heresy is at its center a problem with Christology.”

His meaning was obvious. It is misunderstandings about the person of Christ in His humanity and in His divinity and the relationship thereof that eventually has lead to every heresy that exists.

On the positive side the converse is true. All aspects of Catholic Doctrine speak to the nature of the person of Christ. Even if at first they may seem to be about something or someone else (such as some Marian doctrines) they are really pointing to a reality about Jesus.
 
Frankly, I’m not sure I understand what you are looking for, so I will just share some of my recent thoughts on the Eucharist and hope they fit in this discussion.

For some time now, during my hour of adoration, I have been struggling to ‘recognize’ Jesus’s real presence in the exposed Host. It helps sometimes when I remember that He unites Himself to me and to all the faithful in that Host; in fact, at a daily Mass I attended several years ago, as I knelt to pray after Communion, I was blessed with an incredible sense of ‘oneness’ with everyone present. This then reminds me that ‘we are one body, one body in Christ,’ which also helps develop a sense of His presence in that exposed Host. As He is present in heaven, He is also present on earth, and it is through us that His presence is made known (or NOT) here. I continually pray for the strength and courage I so desperately need to share His love for all of creation, especially among those who do not know Him.

Chuck
 
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