he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. [30] Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. (1 Cor. 11:29)Read: there is the Body of Christ in it; the Eucharist is Itself the judgment. Therefore the priest offering the Holy Communion is doing so in the person of Christ; one receiving It is at the Sacrifice of the Cross. As is written:
Amen, amen I say to you, he that receiveth whomsoever I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. (John 13:20)
Read the Holy Scripture once in a while with honesty of heart and you, too, will be Catholic and drop the Protestant lies.
“u don’t just eat a memorial snack. St. Paul goes on to say:
he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. [30] Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. (1 Cor. 11:29)”
I would not mock it as a memorial snack.
We read of the Last Supper (I read my Bible daily, I don’t know why the sarcastic “read your Bible once in a while” comment) - and Jesus took the bread and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, and said take, eat, this is my body. . . and afterwards he took the cup and said take, drink, this is my blood -
I’d like to point out that Jesus was sitting there breaking, pouring and serving, talking, and his body was intact; he was not physically being sacrificed at the Last Supper. His sacrifice was yet to be made.
I would not call the last supper event some sort of silly snack, it was the last meal Jesus ate with his disciples before his death. Nothing to make light of. And so He instituted the communion sacrament - and so we keep it until He returns.
The Body of Christ in palpable form was not in the bread and wine. The Body of Christ was physically serving it, see 1st Corinthians 11 (and other accounts if you prefer) to see for yourself.
Jesus is not being re-sacrificed. He is being remembered, and celebrated, and there is indeed a great danger in eating or drinking unworthily, not discerning the body of the Lord. What is it to discern the body of the Lord? A deep question.
To know Him; to know what He did; to take Him on in faith; to trust in Him; to be aware of what his sacrifice was.
But it does not mean that Jesus is being continually re-sacrificed for our sins. His death, one time, was sufficient to save us. Just as Adam’s sin, one time, was enough to damn us.
“This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” (1st Cor 11:25) In remembrance, indeed, and solemnly so. Not in re-sacrifice.