If you receive the Eucharist and then give blood, whose blood does the person get?

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I was wondering if you were to go to mass and receive the Eucharist and then immediately donate blood if the recipient would receive any of Jesus’ blood. Maybe it’s a stupid question but my baby sister needs a risky brain surgery and they need extra blood for her. I was wondering if I went to mass and then went directly to donate blood if there would be any traces of the Eucharist left in my blood. Just a question!
 
No, because once the Eucharist is no longer recognizable under its accidents–that is, bread and wine, the Real Presence is no longer, well, present. Once your digestive system had passed what had been the Eucharist on to your blood stream, it would have long since no longer been recognizable as bread or wine (this would have occurred in the stomach) and thus would not be the Body and Blood of Christ anymore.

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She’d be receiving your blood, not Jesus’. The only way you can receive the Eucharist is by receiving It directly in your mouth, not through someone else. The very moment your body digests the Body and Blood of Christ enough for It to not be able to be recognized as bread and/or wine, it is no longer the Body and Blood of Christ. By the time any amount of carbohydrates or whatever enters your bloodstream, it is definitely no longer the Body and Blood of Christ.
 
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I was wondering if you were to go to mass and receive the Eucharist and then immediately donate blood if the recipient would receive any of Jesus’ blood. Maybe it’s a stupid question but my baby sister needs a risky brain surgery and they need extra blood for her. I was wondering if I went to mass and then went directly to donate blood if there would be any traces of the Eucharist left in my blood. Just a question!
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I don’t believe so. You would receive the substance of the Lord. The nutrients from the bread would possibly be in your blood after digestion, but the substance of the Lord would only apply to you.

Perhaps you should have your sister blessed (or anointed?) right before surgery. I don’t know the severity of the surgery, however, so that would have to be something discussed with a priest.
 
Thank you for your responses! I just thought I would ask because I didn’t know.

She has already received the anointing of the sick once when she was born. Now she’s four months old and will receive it again prior to the surgery.
 
I just wanted to let you know that I am praying for your little sister.
Is she old enough to receive the Eucharist herself? If so, please make sure your parents arrange for her to say confession and receive the Eucharist before her surgery. If she is not of age, please have a priest visit her anyway. If she is below the age of reason and has not received communion yet, she has no need of annointing of the sick, but she and your family can still receive the comfort of having the priest pray over and for her.
 
Thank you very much! She is four months old. Please pray for a miracle to heal her brain and stop her seizures. We are praying a novena asking for the intercession of Blessed JPII on her behalf. He needs a miracle, too 🙂
 
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I was wondering if you were to go to mass and receive the Eucharist and then immediately donate blood if the recipient would receive any of Jesus’ blood. !
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no, the Real Presence lasts only as long as the sacred species remain recognizable in their accidents as bread and wine. Even if you went directly from church to the blood drive in the parish hall by that time the communion matter has digested and the Real Presence under the physical appearance is no longer there, only the spiritual presence remains. Since it gets asked in this same context, no a nursing mother who has just received communion gives her child only milk when she nurses, for the same reason.
 
The above posters are correct, but frequent reception of Communion and offering those graces for your baby sister would be a powerful prayer that certainly wouldn’t go to waste.

I will pray for your family.
 
With my prayers for her, for the medical personnel treating her, and for your family. - Joe K.
 
I was wondering if you were to go to mass and receive the Eucharist and then immediately donate blood if the recipient would receive any of Jesus’ blood. Maybe it’s a stupid question but my baby sister needs a risky brain surgery and they need extra blood for her. I was wondering if I went to mass and then went directly to donate blood if there would be any traces of the Eucharist left in my blood. Just a question!
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You wouldn’t be giving up the Body and Blood of Christ any more than if you were going to the bathroom any time after communion.
I will pray for your family.
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I will also.
 
Nameless6291 said:
I was wondering if you were to go to mass and receive the Eucharist and then immediately donate blood if the recipient would receive any of Jesus’ blood. Maybe it’s a stupid question but my baby sister needs a risky brain surgery and they need extra blood for her. I was wondering if I went to mass and then went directly to donate blood if there would be any traces of the Eucharist left in my blood. Just a question!
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No! When we receive the Eucharist it only remains the Eucharist and thus the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ for as long as the accidents remain. That means once the accidents of bread and wine are no longer bread and wine the Eucharist is no longer there.
 
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