Eucharistic's Lords Body

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There are three bodies of Christ.

His body before His death.

His glorified body.

His Eucharistic body.

I need help understanding His Eucharistic body.

Thanks!
 
Hi Jim,

I think you might need to be more specific regarding what you want to discuss! It is a big topic.

VC
 
Hi Jim,

From the Sequence of Corpus Christi :

*What you do not understand, what you do not see, *
Your lively faith confirms
Beyond the order of things.

*Under different species, *
Which are appearances only, not reality
Are hiding wondrous things.

The flesh is food, the blood is drink
But Christ remains whole
*In either species. *

Our senses perceive bread, but the reality is Christ, body and soul, humainity and divinity. It is a miracle and a mystery. Does this answer your question?

Verbum
 
The Lord’s bodies are three, I guess.

I do not know how to even explain that.

Does He have “three” bodies?

This I know, His body and conception was normal.

His body in the grave was normal.

His resurrected body was different than His normal body.

I do not have any troubles there. His glorified body or heveanly body. I get an idea from what I think our heavenly body will be.

There is a great mystery in His Eucharistic Body. How do we explain it?

Do we need to explain it?

Our course there is another body, the body of Christ–the Church.

The one that is most difficult for me is: His Eucharistic Body.

Thanks for your helping interest.

I will try to explain more, if this isn’t enough.
 
The body of the Lord in the Eucharist is the Lord’s heavenly glorified body.

From Pope Paul VI’s 1968 Credo of the People of God:

We believe that, as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood which were soon to be offered for us on the Cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the priest are changed into the body and blood of Christ enthroned gloriously in heaven; and we believe that the mysterious presence of the Lord, under the species which continue to appear to our senses as before, is a true, real and substantial presence.
 
Jim_Baur said:
There are three bodies of Christ.

His body before His death.

His glorified body.

His Eucharistic body.

I need help understanding His Eucharistic body.

Thanks!
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There is a fourth -

His Mystical Body – the Church

(I don’t get credit for this, my husband offered this.) 😉

~Liza
 
Todd_Easton said:
The body of the Lord in the Eucharist is the Lord’s heavenly glorified body.
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Todd, exactly.

And that earlier portion of the Credo hints also that the the body of Christ in the Eucharist given at the Last Supper was a passible, earthly body.

VC
 
Jim_Baur said:
There are three bodies of Christ.

His body before His death.

His glorified body.

His Eucharistic body.

I need help understanding His Eucharistic body.

Thanks!
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If we consider God created all things, how difficult would it be for Jesus to make the bread and wine an extension of His very Body and Blood regardless of its appearance or structure? We can no more truely undersand this than how He took nothing and created us and everything we experience with our human senses. Jesus raised Lazarus from the Dead by His word and made the blind see by His word. He made the lame walk and the fig tree wither and die by His word. He expressed His Godly power as well as His humanity. He is God yet took on the form of man. He was born of Woman yet was conceived supernaturally through God of a human, the blessed virgin. He extended His “being” into Bread and Wine made from that which He created in the beginning of earthly existence, again, from nothing, and of which man can only reproduce from its original source also created by God. He placed Himself in Mary and offered all man a means to accept Him in the most intimate way that we and He could become one in each other.

It is our most sincere and loving way to accept Him if worthily. In so making the bread and wine into His Body and Blood He instills the graces of His very spirit while giving us the sense perceptible means to physically join in His existence if we so accept Him and love Him. By accepting the consecrated Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist, are we not accepting and honoring that which Jesus proclaimed as His Body and Blood and offered to us to share in and become one in Him and Him in us?

Faith must be the path that leads to Christ. Our Love of God and each other are the steps we take to reach Him. The stronger the love, the closer we are to reaching Him. If we refer to the Gospel, we will see the apostles celebrated the sacrament of the Eucharist and the history of our Faith attests to the lineage of the celebration of His Body and Blood. On the cross, He gave His Body and Blood to His enemies on our behalf so all man may be saved. Through the Eucharist, He offers His Body and Blood to us, extending Himself through His love of us that we may become one with Him. Those who accept His loving offer worthily become one with Him to the depth they are predisposed by their trust from faith and their love of Him.

Keep in mind the apostles who, with Peter, remained with Jesus when others walked away did not understand what Jesus meant by eating His Flesh and drinking His Blood either. They accepted His Word on trust born of faith.

Hope this helps you my brother…
 
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