Whose Body and Blood is it?

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I have heard two different explanations of whose Body and Blood it is on the altar. 1) The crucified Christ on Calvary, and 2) the risen and glorious Christ in heaven. Which is it? Is it both (is my Protestant background making an unnecessary either/or categorization)?

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It is the body and blood, soul and divinity, of our Lord, Jesus Christ. It is the flesh and blood of the Son of Man. It is both His flesh and blood crucified at Calvary and His divine body. Put simply, it IS Jesus. When we recieve the Eucharist, we enter into His life, death, ressurection, AND ascencion into Heaven. It is becoming united with the second person of the Trinity, whose name is Jesus Christ.
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Justin
 
I can’t see how being in Heaven or on the altar can change blood type :confused:
 
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(is my Protestant background making an unnecessary either/or categorization)?
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I think so. As the previous poster noted it IS Jesus. The same gloriously risen Christ was the Christ who died on the Cross.

BTW, welcome! Keep asking good questions! 👍
 
Thanks everyone. I was thinking that I was literally at Calvary when I went to Mass. But, now I think of it, Scott Hahn makes the case that I am “in” heaven when I go to Mass. One and the same Jesus whose very flesh was crucified on Calvary and is in heaven. Whatever “was” and “is” mean in reference to God.
 
Going to Mass is going to Calvary. It’s also going to heaven (or, more correctly, heaven coming to us). The Mass is a re-presentation of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, but the Eucharist is also Christ’s risen, glorified body. God is timeless. There is no need to make the distinciton between before and after, because it’s both!
 
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It is the body and blood, soul and divinity, of our Lord, Jesus Christ. It is the flesh and blood of the Son of Man. It is both His flesh and blood crucified at Calvary and His divine body. Put simply, it IS Jesus. When we recieve the Eucharist, we enter into His life, death, ressurection, AND ascencion into Heaven. It is becoming united with the second person of the Trinity, whose name is Jesus Christ.
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AMEN! This is very well said. In receiving the Eucharist, we are present not only at Calvary, but at the Last Supper, the Resurrection, Ascenscion, and in Heaven united with Christ.

Also, since Christ has but one body, we all receive the same body, thus being united to one another.

JimG
 
Dr. Colossus:
Going to Mass is going to Calvary. It’s also going to heaven (or, more correctly, heaven coming to us). The Mass is a re-presentation of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, but the Eucharist is also Christ’s risen, glorified body. God is timeless. There is no need to make the distinciton between before and after, because it’s both!
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I agree with you except that I would say that the Mass is the recreation of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross by the Power of God through the Priest
 
Well, it’s not really a recreation either. The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross was a once-and-for-all event. We don’t re-sacrifice Him at Mass, we participate in that One Sacrifice. We re-present (not represent, but present again) the act that reconciled mankind with God.
 
At Mass we are at the foot of the Cross. It is a re-presentation of the one Sacrifice of Christ to the Father. It is also a recreation of the Last supper in which we are united with the perpetual Heavenly Liturgy described by St. John in the Apocalypse.
 
Dr. Colossus:
Going to Mass is going to Calvary. It’s also going to heaven (or, more correctly, heaven coming to us).
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in our eastern churches we enhance the sense of heaven coming to us by having the alter seperated from the body of the church by a wall of icons, or iconostas. during the liturgy, the doors of the iconostas are opened so that God can come to us from heaven; first in His Word, then in the Eucharist. its really cool symbolism.
thanks for listening, ove and peace, terry
 
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