Exactly...No value...Jesus is in heaven and he neither has a human body nor human blood...He gave those up, once for all, for all time...
So tell me, when you re-present the Crucifixion and partake in the Sacrifice, do you all take upon yourselves all the sin of the world like Jesus did at the Cross???
Jesus was in despair sweating blood for such a shame to be put upon him...
And how is it that when you are sharing in the Sacrifice, no one runs a spear in your side and all your blood runs out??? Where did you get the crazy idea that drinking blood is somehow connected to the sacrifice Jesus went thru??? Don't be saying 'scripture' because it's not there...
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So you claim the the Body and Blood of Jesus has no value?
“Exactly...No value...Jesus is in heaven and he neither has a human body nor human blood...He gave those up, once for all, for all time... “
Perhaps you don’t believe in the Resurrection? Jesus kept His Body and Blood and many saw Him even as He ascended into Heaven. So you are a doubting Thomas?
St. Thomas Aquinas examines this idea in the Summa Theologiae (part III, question 54). Christ’s body, though real, was “glorified” (i.e. in a glorified condition). St. Thomas cites St. Gregory saying that “Christ’s body is shown to be of the same nature, but of different glory, after the Resurrection” (III, 54, article 2). What does that mean? It means that a glorified body is still a body, but it is not subject to corruption.
As we would say in modern scientific terminology, the glorified body is not subject to the forces and laws of physics and chemistry. Human bodies, made of the elements on the periodic table, belong to rational souls.
The Catholic Church has followed the teachings of Jesus with the help of the Holy Spirit since Pentecost, while the protestant beliefs as expressed by a former Catholic priest and later expanded came approximately 1500 years later with no connection to the Apostles and early Church fathers.
Yes, the members of the Catholic Church celebrates daily the Mass throughout the world along with Jesus through the priest His sacrifice on Calvary as an offering to God the Father.
During the Last Supper, the Lord said to his disciples, “Do this in memory of me.” In Greek, this statement reads, “Touto poieite eis tan eman anamnesin.” There are two.aspects of this phrase that deserve consideration. For one, the phrase touto poieite can be translated as do this or as offer this. In the Old Testament, God commands the Israelites “you shall offer (poieseis) upon the altar two lambs” (Ex. 29:38). This use of poiein is translated as offer this or sacrifice this over seventy times in the Old Testament. So the same word that is used for the sacrifice under the Old Covenant is used for the sacrifice of the Mass in the New.
The second key.aspect of this phrase is Our Lord’s use of the word anamnesin. If you were to ask a Protestant to look in a Greek Translation of his Bible, every time this word (anamnesis) appears it is within a sacrificial context (see, for example, Numbers 10:10). It also can be translated as memorial offering or memorial sacrifice. While these nuances are lost in the English translation, Jewish ears would have understood the sacrificial meaning of Christ’s words.
Your comment: “Where did you get the crazy idea that drinking blood is somehow connected to the sacrifice Jesus went thru??? Don’t be saying ‘scripture’ because it’s not there...”
Jesus told us to eat His Body and Blood in the Eucharist for our salvation.
Obviously, you missed the prophecy Isiah preached judgement to the Israelites “you shall hear but never understand, and you shall see but never perceive.