This was my understanding of it, and it comes from a more medical and biblical perspective and my husband who was an altar boy shared this with me. This to consider.
The need to go directly to the source is evident in your post. The Church is the teacher, we are the students; being an altar server does not qualify us to be anything but an altar server. Medical terms and directives give nothing to understand Christ’s life or death. Biblical sources must be weighed against the understandings of Mother Church, not our own ability or fundamental understandings.
Whole Blood is made out of water in the ‘plasma’ and blood parts. Blood can not be whole blood without water added into it. When Jesus died and was speared blood came out first followed by water, and that is how whole blood drains out of the body. First it runs red than clear. But when the blood (Wine is made into complete blood again) it has to have water added to it. Water the last thing out of the body and the last thing back in to make it fully whole consecrated whole blood again. So we will be drinking the whole blood of Christ and share in His divinity by drinking it at the Eucharistic Feast.
Although some of the things you say are true here about blood, none have significance in the discussion. The Blood and Water ran out of His side for particular spiritual reasons, not for medical reasons. Are there medical reasons involved, yes, but not the focus or purpose of the event. Furthermore, the water added to the wine is not required for validity of the sacrament. For instance, when I prepare the altar and the vessels and gifts, many times we end up with many chalices, not all will have water added, mingled. Typically only the celebrant’s chalice has water added unless the wine is in one vessel before being poured into separate vessels. The validity of the “unmingled” wine is not in question at all.
Jesus when he came out of the tomb looked like he was flesh and bone (no blood) and thus immortal.
Please provide any site for this fundamental interpretation. Neither Tradition nor Scripture back this up.
Jesus said after His Resurrection from the Tomb.
Luke 24:39 Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
So anywhere the reference in Scripture is to flesh and bones that means there is no blood present? That is just simply not so. The Sacred Body at Mass is Jesus’ body, blood, soul and divinity; the entire person of Jesus Christ. The same is true for the Precious Blood. It is only a fuller symbol of Jesus when received under both the Eucharistic Bread and Wine. Not that the Eucharist is a symbol, it is not.
He passed his life to us to share in His divinity.
So when we are immortal we will look like we are made of flesh and bone just like Adam and Eve did.
Again, please help us understand where you get these ideas.
Of course we know that water always symbolizes a purification or a cleansing.
Ok, here we can agree; however, the way you use this truth in out of context. The water added to the wine does not have any significance to purification or cleansing.
Now going back to Adam and Eve… before they had blood… they were made of flesh and bone (no blood). Genesis 2:23 Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,
for out of Man this one was taken.”
When they sinned, Adam and Eve became filled with blood and then lost the gift of immortality.
This has got to be one of the most disturbing things I have ever heard from a Catholic. Adam and Eve were created fully human, this includes blood or they would not have been alive. Where on earth do you get this?
Now Jesus passed the chalice of his blood onto us as the sacrificial bond at the Last Supper which gives immortality to all who drink of it. We will drink of this cup of the new and eternal covenant at the unending feast of our Lord until the Last Day and where it will render us immortal as Jesus is because Jesus restored immortality to us.
Ephesians 5: 30 Because we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Again, much of what you write in this portion although truth, you use it out of context. The Scripture you site is truth, we are members of His Body, but to say that this means only His flesh and bones and not His blood is just strange. Flesh contains blood, bone contains marrow which produces blood cells. How do you separate blood from flesh and bone? What is the biggest trouble for me to follow, how do you make the leap that this is what Sacred Scripture is referring to when no where in any Catholic commentaries make these statements?
