[OLD REGGIE]

Just who does the Priest represent in the Eucharist? Does the Priest drink the wine?

The priest is a human being who offers in place of Christ (the Orthodox say as an icon or image of Christ), but he also partakes, because he is no Christ and because he needs Christ just like the rest (and some would say even more than the rest!). Jesus did not need communion. The priest does.

Doubletalk!

CCC
1566 "It is in the Eucharistic cult or in the Eucharistic assembly of the faithful (synaxis) that they exercise in a supreme degree their sacred office; there, acting in the person of Christ and proclaiming his mystery, they unite the votive offerings of the faithful to the sacrifice of Christ their head, and in the sacrifice of the Mass they make present again and apply, until the coming of the Lord, the unique sacrifice of the New Testament, that namely of Christ offering himself once for all a spotless victim to the Father." From this unique sacrifice their whole priestly ministry draws its strength.

The Priest acts "...in the person of Christ". The Priest drinks the wind----Jesus drinks the wine. Simple!

[kosta50]

Doubletalk!

Why are you quoting form the CCC? I was referring to the Eastern Churches which make no such claim, and do not follow the CCC.

Your issues are with the Latin Church. I don't know the Latin Church. I am not Catholic, I was baptized Orthodox as an infant and reverently practiced Orthodox Christianity until a few years ago and a such am qualified to comment on Orthodox practice.

You asked me a question and I answered it from the Eastern Orthodox point of view, which I hold to be the only catholic view.

For your information, the two Churches are not in communion.

[metmom]

Hmmm....

If the priest is there *offering* the *sacrifice* of Christ, doesn’t that mean he identifies more with the Roman centurions who who nailed Jesus to the cross than with....

whoever????