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Holy Communion
By peace | August 28, 2007
On the night He was betrayed, Jesus took bread and gave it to His disciples, and said, “Take this, all of you, and eat it: this is My Body which will be given up for you.”
When supper was ended, He took the cup. Again He gave thanks and praise, gave the cup to His disciples, and said,”Take this, all of you, and drink it: this is the cup of My Blood, the Blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of Me.“
Our Lord changed bread and wine into His Body and Blood and offered Himself to God. This was sacrifice. This was His Body to be offered on the Cross. This was His Blood to be shed for the forgiveness of sins. He told the Apostles that He would die on the next day. That would be the bloody sacrifice on the Cross.
Jesus wanted this unbloody sacrifice to continue on earth till the end of time. When He told the Apostles to do as He had done, He made them priests with the power to offer this sacrifice.
After our Lord returned to heaven, the Apostles continued to offer this Eucharistic Sacrifice. They ordained other priests. In this way, Jesus gave us the priesthood and the Mass.
In the Mass, Jesus gives Himself to His Heavenly Father, as He did on the Cross, but now in an unbloody manner in the Sacrament of the Eucharist, for He cannot suffer anymore. The Sacrifice of the Mass is the same Sacrifice that Jesus offered on the Cross. In every Mass, Christ is present, acting through His priest, under the appearances of bread and wine.
In every Mass, His Death becomes present, offered as our sacrifice to God in an unbloody and sacramental manner. As often as the Sacrifice of the Cross is celebrated on an alter, the work of our redemption is carried on.
At Mass, we offer Christ, our Passover Sacrifice, to God, and we offer ourselves along with Him. We then receive the risen Lord, our Bread of Life, in Holy Communion.
Understand more about Holy Communion:
Precepts of the Church
The Sacrament of Holy Communion
What are the meaning of the Sacraments
What Makes Holy Communion A Sacrament
Prayers Before and After Receiving Holy Communion
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