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To: T.B. Yoits

I don’t recall any description of Christ placing His Precious Body in the paws of His apostles.

Do you have a source?


7 posted on 09/20/2020 8:39:13 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

“I don’t recall any description of Christ placing His Precious Body in the paws of His apostles.”

I don’t believe Jesus had manufactured “wafers” from a box to pass around to his disciples. He broke simple unleavened bread with his hands and passed it to the disciples, who handled the bread with their “paws”. Much worse things would soon happen to His earthly body than sharing bread with His followers.

Jesus touched many sinful people during His ministry that others would have nothing to do with - the sinful, the sick, and the dying. None of these people could defile him. Rather, he healed them.

The first symbolic sacraments used earthly things (bread, wine) to represent heavenly things as a remembrance for the coming church. This first communion also took place in a mundane, earthly room, not an ornate cathedral. Jesus’ body was not a heavenly body yet, but an earthly one. He lived with his imperfect, human disciples and was not offended or defiled by doing so.


11 posted on 09/20/2020 10:15:24 PM PDT by bluejean (Living one day at a time in the national psych ward.)
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