What is the "Eucharist" really.
The Catholic church proclaims something about the Eucharist that is not embraced by some (not all) Protestant denominations. Here, the mystery is hard to explain but isn't just an article of faith because it's power has over and over again been manifest and it's affirmance of what it is has also been evident in the physical world. The church proclaims it actually the real "presence"- the real "trans-substantiated" physical divine person of Jesus himself. The wine, they claim is actually the blood, transposed, transubstantiated, in real form. Not your happy hour cabernet- the REAL blood of Jesus.
Now, we know something from Jesus' resurrection in bodily form when he walked the earth and had a body, holes and all, that was capable of ascending to heaven. We know it had holes in it because Thomas put his finger in his hand hole created by driving the spike through it to nail him to the cross. We will be changed in the "twinkling of an eye" when we go to heaven scripture says. There will be a resurrection of the body in the life everlasting.
The Eucharist is like Heaven's DNA- it is the stuff we now have available to us which is creating in us a new creation destined for heaven- because we are partaking of Jesus himself, his DNA is ingesting in us, so we are at earthly death capable of the mystical recreated resurrection of the body in the new creation. The old will pass away. The resurrected body will be built on the microcosmic foundation of Jesus' very DNA. Jesus with us. God with us.
This is why the Eucharist is so much more profound than -lets all gather around the table and share a meal because sharing is caring and everyone is invited that a lot of protestant denominations do. Here is the bread, pass the butter.
Jesus. The Savior. His very name means "God Saves" Je or Ja is from Ya-Weh and Sus is derived from the hebrew word for Saves. God Saves. Through Jesus. First for the Jew, then for the Gentile. God Saves.
"I am the Way.
I am the Truth.
I am the Life"
"No man comes to the Father but through me." Says "God Saves", Ya-Sus, Jesus
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