Eucharist -- Last Supper

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I posted this before but can’t find my post and want to make sure I understood.
How can the Eucharist at the Last Supper have been Jesus’ Body and Blood when He hadn’t died yet?
Ditto for how the Eucharist at the Last Supper could’ve been Glorifiedprior to Jesus’ death?
 
Faith1960 said:
I posted this before but can’t find my post and want to make sure I understood.
How can the Eucharist at the Last Supper have been Jesus’ Body and Blood when He hadn’t died yet?
Ditto for how the Eucharist at the Last Supper could’ve been Glorifiedprior to Jesus’ death?
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The Eucharist isn’t limited to time. You have to understand that from the perspective of God, time isn’t linear.
 
Even if His Eucharist was only symbolic, the Apostles would not know what they were receiving or giving thanks for.

The Apostles were receiving in trust, not in knowledge.

I know that isn’t your question, but it’s related, no?

As for His presence of substance, I always think of the multiplying of the bread and fish. His substance, which is of Himself, is multiplied, and given. And so, the bread and wine are changed.

Or maybe think about the sick woman who touched His garment. He felt “power come out of Him”. I think, at consecration, His power comes out of Himself.
 
Personally, I think the words of consecration, whether said by Jesus himself over bread and wine or by an ordained Christian priest over bread and wine, create something like a so-called wormhole in 3-dimensional space from the location of the consecrated bread and wine wherever they appear to be at the time to the location of Jesus’ body and blood wherever he is at that time, whether he is seated next to his disciples at table as at the Last Supper when the Eucharist was first instituted the night before he passion and death or now, ever since his glorious resurrection and ascension, in heaven. I don’t know but this seems to be in accord with what Blessed Pope Paul IV said in his The Credo of the People of God:
The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. (Blessed Pope Paul VI, The Credo of the People of God)
 
thephilosopher6 said:
The Eucharist isn’t limited to time. You have to understand that from the perspective of God, time isn’t linear.
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So, you mean that Gods time isn’t like our time, and Jesus could eat His flesh and drink His blood before His death because of that?
 
Faith1960 said:
So, you mean that Gods time isn’t like our time, and Jesus could eat His flesh and drink His blood before His death because of that?
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You are asking for a natural explanation of a supernatural act. How can billions of Catholics throughout history all eat of His Flesh and Blood? Because it is a miracle of multiplying the substance of Jesus, outside of time and physical limitations.
 
Faith1960 said:
I posted this before but can’t find my post and want to make sure I understood.
How can the Eucharist at the Last Supper have been Jesus’ Body and Blood when He hadn’t died yet?
Ditto for how the Eucharist at the Last Supper could’ve been Glorifiedprior to Jesus’ death?
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Jesus is God.

He is not bound by time or space.
 
Faith1960 said:
So, you mean that Gods time isn’t like our time, and Jesus could eat His flesh and drink His blood before His death because of that?
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Where do you find that Jesus ate His Flesh and Drank His Blood? He did not. Remember the transfiguration? He showed Peter James and John His glorified body before His resurrection. As others have said Jesus was not bound by time. One other event that I have always thought pointed to the Eucharist was the changing of the water into wine. Jesus changed the bread and wine into His body and Blood as a memorial to His sacrifice.
This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me
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