Institution of the Eucharist

[PeteZaHut]

Was the bread at the Last Supper the true body of Jesus if the crucifixion hadn’t taken place yet?

 

[AlexPetrosPio]

Yes

 

[vlf7973]

I’m confused about this as well. Could someone explain it?

 

[MarcoPolo]

If one has the faith to believe that bread is transformed into the sacramental, true body of Christ, it should not be hard to go from that miracle to the miracle that Christ, in temporal advance of his sacrifice, bore that sacrifice pre-chronologically at the Last Supper.

Prior to becoming Pope Francis, Cardinal Bergoglio stated in a 2008 catechesis on the Eucharist:*By preemptively giving Himself at the Last Supper, the Lord transforms the moment and place in which covenants are broken (the moment of the treason by Judas) in the kairos – of holy time and space – where this new Covenant is sealed forever.
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