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romano
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Yes, and black cats are black.
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romano
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Messy? Never hear of dehydrated food? Never hear of pemmican? jerky? biltong? Meat needn’t be messy.
But eating meat involves an actual sacrifice whereas eating bread doesn’t.
Strikes me you guys have a blind spot.
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Mila
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Ah, this is a good thread - just answered some questions I had and was going to post and now won’t have to! 
Just wanted to add this little bit I’ve picked up over time is that long ago, animal death was usually either done a sacrifice or to feed during famine and/or to lessen the amount of mouths to feed during famine. Of course, the first of these was the most bothersome. One of the big selling points on Christianity in its beginning (to pagans especially) was the no more human/animal sacrifice. Has anyone else heard this explanation, too?
Just wanted to add this little bit I’ve picked up over time is that long ago, animal death was usually either done a sacrifice or to feed during famine and/or to lessen the amount of mouths to feed during famine. Of course, the first of these was the most bothersome. One of the big selling points on Christianity in its beginning (to pagans especially) was the no more human/animal sacrifice. Has anyone else heard this explanation, too?
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TOME
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As to the question of why doesn’t the Euchsrist include meat, I think a better question (and one that has greater scriptural foundation given the multiplication of loaves and fish, and the meal Jesus prepared for his disciples at the Sea of Galilee after His Resurrection) is why isn’t Fish part of the Eucharistic meal?
However, the answer is that was Jesus’ choice as the synoptics related in their Last Supper accounts, Paul in 1Cor 11, Jesus’ discourse in John 6 and the account of Jesus’ encounter with his two followers on the road to Emmaus and how they recognized him in “The Breaking of the Bread” a term which indicates the Church’s understanding and practice of the Eucharistic Liturgy from the start.
However, the answer is that was Jesus’ choice as the synoptics related in their Last Supper accounts, Paul in 1Cor 11, Jesus’ discourse in John 6 and the account of Jesus’ encounter with his two followers on the road to Emmaus and how they recognized him in “The Breaking of the Bread” a term which indicates the Church’s understanding and practice of the Eucharistic Liturgy from the start.
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marty1818
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Do you mean sacrificing the animal by that?
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