The Body of Christ: newly created flesh or the flesh of the crucifixion?

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Is the Body and Blood of Christ a part of the actual body and blood of Christ present with Christ on the cross? Or, is the Body and Blood of Christ newly created Body and Blood during each consecration?

If the Body and Blood we consume at mass is the Body and Blood which Christ suffered on the cross, how is there enough body and blood to go around for everyone? And does Christ giving out his Body and Blood to eat reduce his corporeal presence in Heaven?
 
Yes, we receive His glorified body.

If the God of the universe can make the universe out of nothing…
if He can multiply loaves and fishes…
if He can rise from the dead…
He can do anything!

We will never run out of the great gift of Himself to us in the Holy Eucharist!
 
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Madaglan:
Is the Body and Blood of Christ a part of the actual body and blood of Christ present with Christ on the cross? Or, is the Body and Blood of Christ newly created Body and Blood during each consecration?

If the Body and Blood we consume at mass is the Body and Blood which Christ suffered on the cross, how is there enough body and blood to go around for everyone? And does Christ giving out his Body and Blood to eat reduce his corporeal presence in Heaven?
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The reason there is a crucifix on or near the altar is to remind us that the sacrifice of the Mass is the same sacrifice of the cross. Christ has but one body. He received it’s form from the Blessed Virgin Mary. This body walked the earth, was crucified, died and was buried. It was raised from the dead. Christ showed St. Thomas that the same body that hung on the cross was in fact the same body that was raised in a glorified state. Christ then ascended into Heaven with that same body, the same body we receive in sacramental form in Holy Communion. The multiplication takes place as a mystery, just as the multiplication of the loaves and fishes did in John 6.
 
We all receive in the Eucharist one and the same glorified body of Christ. His body is not multiplied. (The accidents of bread and wine are.)

Because we all receive the One Body, we ourselves are drawn into a unity. That is why it is called comm-union.
 
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We receive His glorified body…
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I don’t think so. Since Our Lord initiated the Sacrament by saying, “this is My Body…My blood…” He said it before the crucifixion.

He also said “…do this in remembrance of Me…”

“…the cup of My blood which SHALL shed for the remission of sins…” (STILL pre-crucifixion).

“…He that eats My flesh and drinks MY blood shall never die…”

Like Him, we will be resurrected in our mortal bodies.

The Mass complements the Sacrament of Penance. One cannot be effecacious without the other. No Mass; No Penance.
 
Recalling these words of Jesus, the Catholic Church professes that, in the celebration of the Eucharist, bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and the instrumentality of the priest. Jesus said: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. . . . For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink” (Jn 6:51-55). The whole Christ is truly present, body, blood, soul, and divinity, under the appearances of bread and wine—the glorified Christ who rose from the dead after dying for our sins. This is what the Church means when she speaks of the “Real Presence” of Christ in the Eucharist. This presence of Christ in the Eucharist is called “real” not to exclude other types of his presence as if they could not be understood as real (cf. Catechism, no. 1374). The risen Christ is present to his Church in many ways, but most especially through the sacrament of his Body and Blood.
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The presence of the risen Christ in the Eucharist is an inexhaustible mystery that the Church can never fully explain in words. We must remember that the triune God is the creator of all that exists and has the power to do more than we can possibly imagine. As St. Ambrose said: “If the word of the Lord Jesus is so powerful as to bring into existence things which were not, then a fortiori those things which already exist can be changed into something else” (De Sacramentis, IV, 5-16). God created the world in order to share his life with persons who are not God. This great plan of salvation reveals a wisdom that surpasses our understanding. But we are not left in ignorance: for out of his love for us, God reveals his truth to us in ways that we can understand through the gift of faith and the grace of the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. We are thus enabled to understand at least in some measure what would otherwise remain unknown to us, though we can never completely comprehend the mystery of God.
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I think this is a great question.

I am not sure if it is the glorified Body as the Mass is a sacrifice, not a reenactment, but part of the eternal sacrifice of Christ’s death, outside of time.

Is that correct?
 
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