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Holly3278
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Hey everyone. Is the Eucharist Jesus Crucified, Jesus Resurrected, or what? I am thinking the Eucharist is Jesus Crucified since His Crucifixion is re-presented to us at every Mass but I could be wrong.
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JerryZ
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The Host we partake off in the Eucharist is THE Glorified Body of Jesus our saviour.
The mass on the other hand has many more elements.
Dr. Scott Hann has a beautiful presentation on the Eucharist here:
youtube.com/watch?v=GzaiwqsDAm8&list=TLM7w3FgpDm74
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Verbum
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Hi Holly,
The Mass is a memorial of the death and resurrection of Christ, as stated in every eucharistic prayer that follows the consecration, e.g. :
The Mass is a memorial of the death and resurrection of Christ, as stated in every eucharistic prayer that follows the consecration, e.g. :
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R_C
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We call Mass a Holy Sacrifice. We witness the death of Our Lord. The Eucharist is a true sacrifice of the New Covenant. Mass is the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary, in which Jesus, through the priest, offers himself to the Father under the appearance of bread and wine.
St. Paul told his converts in Corinth, “Every time, then, you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes” (1 Corinthians 11:26).
In the 16th century Martin Luther and many other Protestant leaders denied that the Mass is a sacrifice; they stressed the meal aspect exclusively. The Council of Trent reacted by emphasizing what was under attack, namely, that the Mass is a sacrifice. Following the concerns of the Council of Trent, Catholic teaching in recent centuries sought to prove from Scripture that the Mass is a sacrifice.
Vatican II’s decree on the liturgy (1963) said: “At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the ages until he should come again”.
As for the Eucharist itself, in it dwells the Real Presence of the living Christ in body, blood, soul and divinity - this in both species - although the appearance of each individual species is retained.
St. Paul told his converts in Corinth, “Every time, then, you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes” (1 Corinthians 11:26).
In the 16th century Martin Luther and many other Protestant leaders denied that the Mass is a sacrifice; they stressed the meal aspect exclusively. The Council of Trent reacted by emphasizing what was under attack, namely, that the Mass is a sacrifice. Following the concerns of the Council of Trent, Catholic teaching in recent centuries sought to prove from Scripture that the Mass is a sacrifice.
Vatican II’s decree on the liturgy (1963) said: “At the Last Supper, on the night he was betrayed, our Savior instituted the eucharistic sacrifice of his Body and Blood. This he did in order to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross throughout the ages until he should come again”.
As for the Eucharist itself, in it dwells the Real Presence of the living Christ in body, blood, soul and divinity - this in both species - although the appearance of each individual species is retained.
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thistle
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When we receive Communion we are receiving the Risen, Glorified Christ.
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Holly3278
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Thank you everyone for your responses. So from what I understand, the Mass is a Sacrifice because Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and death are re-presented to us but when we receive the Eucharist we are receiving Jesus’ resurrected and glorified Body. Am I understanding this correctly?
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teachccd
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The Eucharist is Jesus Christ. It is His everything…His conception, His birth, His life, His passion, His death, His rising, His ascension, and His glorification with His Father. When we receive Christ in the Eucharist there is no partial portion. We receive the entire Christ both God and man. If you look up the original Aramaic word Jesus used at the Last Supper you would find that the word “body” in the original language translates to “me” or “my everything”. So receive Christ knowing that fullness of being one with our savior and everything He is…teachccd 
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Holly3278
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That is really cool! I knew that when we receive the Eucharist we receive the entire Christ but I didn’t know it included His conception, birth, life, passion, death, rising, and ascension!The Eucharist is Jesus Christ. It is His everything…His conception, His birth, His life, His passion, His death, His rising, His ascension, and His glorification with His Father. When we receive Christ in the Eucharist there is no partial portion. We receive the entire Christ both God and man. If you look up the original Aramaic word Jesus used at the Last Supper you would find that the word “body” in the original language translates to “me” or “my everything”. So receive Christ knowing that fullness of being one with our savior and everything He is…teachccd
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Nita
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It is our risen glorified Lord that we receive in Holy Communion.
**CCC 659 **….Christ’s body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, ….
vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P1T.HTM#1B
CCC 1392 What material food produces in our bodily life, Holy Communion wonderfully achieves in our spiritual life. Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ, a flesh “given life and giving life through the Holy Spirit,”
vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P42.HTM#QQ
**CCC 659 **….Christ’s body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, ….
vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P1T.HTM#1B
CCC 1392 What material food produces in our bodily life, Holy Communion wonderfully achieves in our spiritual life. Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ, a flesh “given life and giving life through the Holy Spirit,”
vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P42.HTM#QQ
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thistle
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When we receive Communion we are not receiving the crucified Christ. We are receiving the Risen, Glorified Christ.The Eucharist is Jesus Christ. It is His everything…His conception, His birth, His life, His passion, His death, His rising, His ascension, and His glorification with His Father. When we receive Christ in the Eucharist there is no partial portion. We receive the entire Christ both God and man. If you look up the original Aramaic word Jesus used at the Last Supper you would find that the word “body” in the original language translates to “me” or “my everything”. So receive Christ knowing that fullness of being one with our savior and everything He is…teachccd
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teachccd
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Then St. Paul was in error when he “proclaims Christ crucified” in 1 Corinthians 1:23. Of course we receive the risen Lord! But we receive Christ and that includes Him in His entirety, eternal- incarnation- life- death- and resurrection. If we only know Christ in His resurrection then we must discard all the crucifixes in the world. “And the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world”. When did He give us His flesh to eat?
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teachccd
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So when Christ rose from the dead that cancelled out everything He was before? He gave us His flesh to eat at the Last Supper. Jesus equates this bread with His flesh that will be given for the life of the world. The very action in the Mass is making Christ’s sacrifice on the cross present to us today. There is no denial that we receive the risen Christ in the Eucharist but we cannot deny the crucifixion by saying that when we receive Him we ignore His passion and His death. This would make the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass null and void.
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teachccd
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CCC 1337 The Lord, having loved those who were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing that the hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father, in the course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the commandment of love.163 In order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and to make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and Resurrection, and commanded his apostles to celebrate it until his return; "thereby he constituted them priests of the New Testament."164
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Judas_Thaddeus
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Yes, the Eucharist is our Risen Lord.
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JimG
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It seems that we tend to want to limit the Eucharistic species to Christ at only one point of his existence. I think you are correct here. We receive Christ in his entirety. His body existed from conception to his death, his resurrection and still exists in heaven. (It is the same with our own bodies, which encompass a world-line from conception to our own death and ultimate resurrection.)The Eucharist is Jesus Christ. It is His everything…His conception, His birth, His life, His passion, His death, His rising, His ascension, and His glorification with His Father. When we receive Christ in the Eucharist there is no partial portion. We receive the entire Christ both God and man. If you look up the original Aramaic word Jesus used at the Last Supper you would find that the word “body” in the original language translates to “me” or “my everything”. So receive Christ knowing that fullness of being one with our savior and everything He is…teachccd
So, yes we do receive the resurrected Christ, but we also participate in his sacrifice on the cross, and are made present at the Cross and at the Last Supper. The Mass is truly the one Sacrifice, given once for all, and made present for all of us throughout all ages in the Eucharist.
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Ad_Orientem
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Not exactly. The Mass is a sacrifice because it has a priest who offers a victim (in this case Christ offering Himself). It is one sacrifice with the cross because the principal priest and victim are the same as on the cross. (See Council of Trent, Session XXII.)
On the cross the immolation of the victim consisted of Christ shedding His blood and dying for us; in the Mass the immolation is mystical, consisting in His willingness to die for us, and in the separate consecration of the bread and wine, symbolizing the separation of body and blood, i.e. death. (Due to the unity of Christ’s Person, however, He is fully present under either species.) For this reason the Mass is sometimes called the unbloody sacrifice of Christ (again, see Trent.)
As to the Real Presence, Trent defined the Church’s teaching in Session XIII.
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teachccd
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Exactly!
That’s what the Church has taught for centuries.
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Novocastrian
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The heavenly liturgy as described in the Revelation to St. John seems to portray the Lamb as both slain and alive. Perhaps the best way of looking is to remember that St. Paul preached the risen Christ as the crucified one.
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Ad_Orientem
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Just to clarify, the Mass doesn’t literally take us back in time. What makes it one sacrifice with the cross is that the (principal) Priest and Victim are the same as on the cross, and that He applies to us the fruits of the cross. He isn’t re-crucified, but as you correctly stated, re-presented.
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JimG
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Re-presented means ‘to make present.’ While the Eucharist does not take us back in time, it does make Christ’s one sacrifice present to us. After all, time, like location, is an accident. Jesus has but one body, and it is that one body, and that one Sacrifice, which is made present to us. The Sacrifice, which in history is seen as temporal and local, is in fact eternal and and universal by means of the Eucharist.
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