COMMENT:
Jesus no more wishes us to drink his blood than he wants us to cut off our hand, pluck out our eye or hate our parents– as he stated elsewhere. These are spiritual, not literal truths!
RESPONSE:
The biblical context distinguished the use of Hebraic hyperbole from when he insisted upon a literal appreciation of the Eucharist. Look at the Gospel of John! Our Lord repeated himself, again and again, and even allowed the murmuring Jews (who could not accept it) to walk away. They knew that Jesus meant what he said. Indeed, at the Lord’s Supper he spoke about the bread and wine transformed into his body and blood as a new covenant. A covenant could not be established in a fake offering. Jesus tells his apostles to do as he did in remembrance of him, re-presenting his oblation in the Eucharist— the saving activity and the real presence of the one who is the divine Lamb of God.
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