IF Catholicism could show how cannibalism was suddenly made innocent, catholiciism might be able to make a case for Jesus eating His flesh with them that night, by taking a passage out of contextual meaning of the entire Bible as one or two catholic apologists do often at FR. But you will not show how the disciples could do that and remain innocent before the laws and Jesus stated that He had come to fulfill the Laws not erase them.
Jesus declared not one yot or tittle of the Law would disappear, yet catholiciism makes a mockery of Him by declaring they, the priesthood, serve to you the flesh and real blood of Jesus in a wafer, contradicting all that Jesus taught on that last Passover night, defying in a ritual of pagan origins the law against cannibalism.
Jesus introduced The New Covenant of Grace by Faith not Works, using symbols any man or woman could find any where at any time, without need of a priesthood or an organization. Jesus did not suddenly erase the law against cannibalizing human flesh!
Judaism had devolved into a rituals needing the temple and more than 600 restrictions on life as a means to work one's way to favor with God. Contrasting that works based Judaism, the emphasis in the ritual of breaking the bread and sipping the wine in REMEMBRANCE of His atoning work is not upon the falsely empowered org, it is upon Jesus and faith in His atonement activating God's Grace for us. The Catholic Church has --successfully with more than a billion Catholics-- replaced works based Judaism with works based Catholicism.
Having the paganism of Catholic Mass exposed upsets you. Understandable, since Catholics have been indoctrinated to place their faith in the org run ritual rather than the simplicity of faith in Him. Catholics go to this ritual placing faith in the ritual to cleanse them, rather than exercising faith in His atonement by activating their faith in Him, not a ritual. You cannot eat God's Life into your belly and rejuvenate your spirit and soul.
As usual, when I get a ping well into a thread, I have to go back and learn what started it all in the first place
lil flower's bloom has fallen off without propagating a single seed .... just an annual that had no beauty anyway
Let me suggest that you consider that this bread was not unleavened (adzumos in Gk.) but rather leavened (artos in Gk.), inasmuch as the Galileans ate their passover on the eve of the day the Jews of Judea killed their lambs; hence the bread, being one day shy of that of the Jews, would still be regular leavened bread.
In the observation of the New Covenant the bread representing the Body of Christ (which would be the local ekklesia gathered unto His Name) is not pure: it has been and still is leavened, likewise, at this time.
Also, remember that the day of the feast of Pentecost, on which the Holy Ghost came upon the disciples, was also a day under the Law upon which the first of the new leavened bread might be eaten.
Please take these facts into account when you formluate your own preferred doctrinal belief in the symbology of what the nature of the elements of the Supper consists.
Some specific sects insist that the bread of the Remembrance Supper be leavened bread (perhaps even in form like our commercial pita bread), with good reason.
so, for 2,016 years Christians have been wrong concerning the Eucharist but luckily, you sprang up to set us straight.......thanks!