The Body we receive is not HIS dead body nor HIS natural human body, but HIS Resurrectional body. We know this because it contains HIS supernatural life (which is why it builds up our own), while a dead body holds no life at all; and a natural body, only natural human life which we already possess.
Whether all the blood drained out or not, a resurrected body is altogether restored. But we can expect that in an immortal body, things like hair, the private parts, and other organs will have a different function, and so probably will blood. Scripture says, “the life is in the blood”, and in another place it says that Jesus “was made a life-giving spirit”; therefore the blood we receive in communion is blood, but with a life giving, rather than life sustaining, function, or something like that. I haven’t done many experiments on resurrected bodies, so I can only make educated guesses.
I’d say it mattered, as does a very knowledgeable priest in my town whom I asked this question. The reason being that our LORD’s natural Human Body held only natural life, which cannot be transferred from person to person, and which each of us has already. Because HE held only natural life, HE was able to die.
Thank you. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around the idea that we are “made present at Calvary.” I imagine myself being at the cross when I hear that, as if we are in a “time machine,” and He has not yet died or been glorified. It is this point, more than bloodloss, that I am stuck on.
Thank you.I’m not sure.
To clarify, learn, dispel my misconceptions, increase my apologetic abilities, and anticipate questions from non-believers when I dialogue with them.
I’m stuck on the idea that we are “made present at Calvary” since I imagine being “at the cross” in a sort of time machine before His glorification.
This is just a guess here, but I think the “bled out” idea comes from the account of Christ’s passion where it says something about water coming out of his lance wound instead of blood… I have heard priests say that this meant that He gave EVERY ounce of his blood for us… not sure what the official CC teaching is though.
Yes, that sounds like something I was told (by who I do not know).
Just as bread that comes from the earth, after God's blessing has been invoked upon it, is no longer ordinary bread, but Eucharist, formed of two things, the one earthly and the other heavenly: so too our bodies, which partake of the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, but possess the hope of resurrection.**" (CCC 1000)I don’t believe that there is an official Church Teaching on this.
Body hair actually has a very noble use in our natural bodies: it amplifies our sense of touch by stretching adjacent nerve receptors in our skin, so that we can perceive touch sensations that do not quite, or only weakly touch the skin. In our Spiritual Bodies, no doubt this function will be preserved and strengthened, so that we can fully experience the fullness of our LORD’s touch and embrace.
)That simply means that HE died. Blood separates after death, forming a red cellular phase and a clear aqueous phase. The heavier cellular phase would settle in the lower parts of the body. Someone said once, “If you ever cut your skin and blood and water come out, you are in bad trouble, because you’ve been dead at least an hour.”
Now that’s an interesting perspective.
Very thought provoking.That is an interesting question. I was looking forward to some of the answers on it, but I haven’t seen anyone respond to this particular one yet.