One minor detail....the blood was NEVER consumed.
Jesus would not have commanded the Jews, nor His disciples who were well acquainted with the OT Law, to break the Law by consuming blood.
This would also go against the Council of Jerusalem's letter to the Gentiles.
19“Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles, 20but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood. Acts 15:19-20
Not only does the Council's ruling go against the catholic understanding of the "sacrifice" of the Mass, it is also against the worship of Mary. It is well known catholics bow down statues of Mary, pray to Mary, rely upon her for salvation, etc.
You’re right. His blood was of the New Covenant. He commanded no one to drink His blood under the Old Covenant.
“Jesus would not have commanded the Jews, nor His disciples who were well acquainted with the OT Law, to break the Law by consuming blood.”
Since it was His blood sacramentally there was no violation of the OT Law.
See, once again, we see you are apparently unfamiliar with basic things. As your favorite Catholic theologian wrote: “The phrase ‘to eat the flesh and drink the blood,’ when used figuratively among the Jews, as among the Arabs of today, meant to inflict upon a person some serious injury, especially by calumny or by false accusation. To interpret the phrase figuratively then would be to make our Lord promise life everlasting to the culprit for slandering and hating him, which would reduce the whole passage to utter nonsense” (Fr. John A. O’Brien, The Faith of Millions, 215).
You never even read his book, did you? Oh, that’s right, you proved that fact last time.
How could it be possibly against the Levitical law for Christ to perfectly fulfill the Passover?
Christ is the Passover Lamb.
He is what all those centuries of Passovers and sacrifice were all about - they reached towards His Death and His Resurrection - His Living Sacrifice - standing at the center of history.
By His passion (his life, his death and his resurrection) Christ fulfilled the Law. He is the High Priest. He is the Sacrifice.
The Mosaic Law forbade unclean foods. But Christ's Body and Blood is not an unclean food.
Christ is both God and Man. He is the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. When we eat His Body and drink His Blood we are nourished by the living God Himself.
God is not to be likened to some ritually unclean meat. Being nourished by and upon God Himself cannot be either unclean or evil.
Jesus wouldn’t have commanded what?
“Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” These things he said while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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John 6:53-59 NABRE
http://bible.com/463/jhn.6.53-59.NABRE