Seems sad, though, that Rome failed to include this stuff in the bible when they LATER compiled it.
It is sad that nothing is written in the bible about eating the body of Christ or drinking the blood of Christ. Oh, wait!
John 6
50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
Matthew 26
26 And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mark 14
22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Luke 22
19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
1 Corinthians 11
23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink
this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Now we get the gist of Paul's admonition! These are bread and wine, taken in a commemorative act. But if one takes these token unworthily, THEN are they guilty of breaking the Levitical law against cannibalism and drinking blood!
28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.Again, Paul identifies the bread, not the flesh of the Great High Priest. And Paul directs the attention to spiritual state of being, that a man must examine himself to search his spiritual state before taking the bread and wine as tokens of the sacrifice of The Great High Priest.
29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. Once for all, forever, The Great High Priest has made the perfect sacrifice. Discerning the body of The Lord ... do you know what that means? If one takes the tokens unworthily, THEN will that one stand guilty of breaking the laws in Leviticus. BUT if one examines himself, knowing he must have a Savior else he is doomed, then is that man taking the tokens in true spiritual connection to that ONCE for ALL, Forever sacrifice by the Great High Priest IN HEAVEN.
At this point some have raised the issue of the real presence during the communion. Jesus said that where two or more are gathered in His name, there is He in the midst of them. He has a real SPIRITUAL BODY PRESENCE when two or more are gathered to take the Passover Seder meal in His name, since the Once for ALL, forever event of the Cross.
What's sad is that Rome has taken symbolism and claimed; by it's Power and Authority; the symbolism was REALITY.
Isaiah 45:1
"This is what the LORD says to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of to subdue nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:
John 6...Matthew 26...Mark 14...Luke 22...1 Corinthians 11
But which simply does not teach what Catholicism professes, as instead the gospel accounts obviously require interpretation, else they be thought to mean such things as the disciples were eating the actual, literal bloody flesh of Christ, and whether the LS was sacrifice itself itself, and whether it required a sacerdotal priesthood to effects, and whether John 6 is even referring to the LS, or whether it and the language in the LS was figurative. And the rest of the NT is interpretive of what the gospels state and as shown and briefly above, by the grace of God, it simply does not support what Catholicism professes, including 1Cor. 11:19-34.
As said, rather than being "the source and summit of the Christian life" "in which our redemption is accomplished," as really being the Lord's body and blood, the "bread of angels," and around which sacrament all else revolves, and a sacrifice for sins at the hands of a class of clergy distinctively titled "priests," the latter is non-existent and the LS is only mentioned in two letters written to the church, and briefly as a "feast of charity" (which some RCs deny was the LS) and the other being 1Co. 10 and 11, which are not teaching what Catholicism professes.
Instead of partaking in the LS being exhorted as the primary means of grace in the life of the church, and failure to regularly do so being criticized, instead, apart from the abuse of it when it was being practiced, it is entirely absent in the NT from Acts thru Revelation, including in the Lord's censure and commendations of the representative churches of Rv. 2+3.
But which is only one of the many contrasts btwn the NT church and that of Rome, which basically renders the latter to be an invisible church in Scripture.