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Re: Good Article on the Queen of Heaven
"When do we eat?" I think that that was a deeply telling observation about the human psyche, and I think that that may account for the structure of the most important sacrament -- grace comes to us through the passion -- hunger -- that is most important to us.
The Eucharist is wonderfully accounted-for in Scripture, and not just in the New Testament.
In the New Testament, it is accounted for beginning on the first day of Christ's life outside of Mary's womb...Christ arrives wrapped in swaddling clothes, looking the way He would on the day of His death wrapped in a shroud, and He is lying in a manger, a feeding trough -- a picture of the sacrificed body of Christ being offered as food on a kind of dinner plate! And note well where this occurred, in "Bethlehem," Hebrew meaning "House of Bread"!
In the Old Testament, when Jacob steals Isaac's final blessing from Esau by coming to blind Isaac with sacrificed kid skins on his hands and neck, if you read the text carefully you will see that Jacob is bringing to Isaac gifts of bread and wine, in addition to "sacrificed kid stew." By wearing the skins, Jacob makes Himself "Mr. Sacrificed Child." That "sacrificed Child stew" is therefore a picture of Christ offering to His Father His Own sacrificed flesh, to secure a blessing from Him. The sacrificed kid stew is accompanied by bread and wine to tell us, "A = B. The bread and wine are equal to the sacrificed flesh offered by Christ to His Father." When we take that sacrificed flesh into our own physical selves, by eating it, we make ourselves pleasing to the Father.
There are many, many other Bible verses substantiating the Eucharist. Finding them is easy. Just get a concordance and look up "bread" and "wine."
Originally posted by Pastor Al E Pistle
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The Eucharist is wonderfully accounted-for in Scripture, and not just in the New Testament.
In the New Testament, it is accounted for beginning on the first day of Christ's life outside of Mary's womb...Christ arrives wrapped in swaddling clothes, looking the way He would on the day of His death wrapped in a shroud, and He is lying in a manger, a feeding trough -- a picture of the sacrificed body of Christ being offered as food on a kind of dinner plate! And note well where this occurred, in "Bethlehem," Hebrew meaning "House of Bread"!
In the Old Testament, when Jacob steals Isaac's final blessing from Esau by coming to blind Isaac with sacrificed kid skins on his hands and neck, if you read the text carefully you will see that Jacob is bringing to Isaac gifts of bread and wine, in addition to "sacrificed kid stew." By wearing the skins, Jacob makes Himself "Mr. Sacrificed Child." That "sacrificed Child stew" is therefore a picture of Christ offering to His Father His Own sacrificed flesh, to secure a blessing from Him. The sacrificed kid stew is accompanied by bread and wine to tell us, "A = B. The bread and wine are equal to the sacrificed flesh offered by Christ to His Father." When we take that sacrificed flesh into our own physical selves, by eating it, we make ourselves pleasing to the Father.
There are many, many other Bible verses substantiating the Eucharist. Finding them is easy. Just get a concordance and look up "bread" and "wine."
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