His risen and physical presence remained with his companions under the appearance
of bread and wine.
Her group tweaks specific genes in baker's yeast (the same organism used to
make bread and wine), and observes how chromosome ends respond.
What is transformed is not the substance or meaning
of bread and wine, but the action that is performed.
These new relationships of being also allow a deeper understanding of transubstantiation, the changing of
bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, Christ's risen body, as a new relationality of being.
And the experience of ourselves, which we are going to renew today as we meet at the Lord's Table, to
take bread and wine in remembrance of him and find that he comes alive again for us and in us.
The congregation of mystics at Calvin Presbyterian make Eucharist not only
with bread and wine, but with words and silence.
They are on the altar, hidden in
bread and wine as they were hidden in the same flesh of Christ on the cross.
There are perhaps parallels with the devotion shown by some Christians to the consecrated
bread and wine at the Mass..
(a) Grocery store
bread and wine becomes the flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because a priest does some hocus pocus over it in church of a Sunday morning.
Now of course there's no real change, it's all pretend and the stuff is still
bread and wine after he does his magic act, but they convince themselves i has somehow changed.
You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some sky - god and turning grocery
store bread and wine into flesh and blood.
I don't know about baptism but I'd like to exchange
bread and wine for cheezits and diet dr pepper for communion.
In the Eucharist the worshipper does not unite himself with Christ, but he receives the gifts of
bread and wine by which he expects inner nourishment from the sources of spiritual life upon which he depends.
Millions and millions of Christians believe that
bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because:
(Bresson's hero lived
on bread and wine; Schrader's prefers whiskey, but tells a concerned colleague that his only alcoholic intake is «a little wine with dinner.»)
We wanted them to understand that during trembling vows over tiny rings and whispered words
over bread and wine, something was happening.
The only change in transubstantiation is also invisible, so the accidents of
bread and wine remain, and so does Jesus, until these accidents are no longer evident.
In the early church this celebration generally included more than
just bread and wine, though in the course of the meal this act of Jesus was repeated as the principal act in table fellowship.
Both told of a Last Supper linked with the blood sacrifice whose symbolic recreation by
eating bread and wine provided salvation for all worshippers.
And we are ready to have someone point to what is in our midst and say, There it is, the peace you yearn for: everlasting Love given to you in what looks to be but
mere bread and wine» gift, pure gift, questions answered, wounds healed, loneliness vanished, and death of every sort conquered.
This reminds of a later time when another King of Jerusalem, who is also a High Priest,
brings bread and wine to his disciples and tells them that it represents His body broken and His blood shed for them (1 Cor.
For example, last year for Lent I gave up
bread and wine so the only time I had these things was at communion.
The Last Supper was not merely the new Passover, but the
new bread and wine of the Presence, showing God's love for us.
That Jesus not only
distributed bread and wine to the disciples but also accompanied the acts with words giving them a new, special meaning can not be reasonably questioned.
We must create what has traditionally been called a «eucharistic community» — a Christian community that meets together around the supper,
around bread and wine, around Christ's very presence in the community and that becomes a sacramental presence of God's love and grace within the larger community.
Here's a list of things we should test... 1) Worldwide floods 2) Seas parting at the command of a person 3) talking snakes, donkeys, and bushes 4) People spontaneously turning into pillars of salt 5) a few loaves of
bread and some wine feeding thousands 6) instantaneous healing of disease 7) worlds forming in 6 days 8) words forming on stone tablets without the assistance of a living creature 9) people walking on water 10) resurrection on command
The Lords Supper was actually a Jewish Passover meal, yet it evolved into a regular fellowship meal which included
symbolic bread and wine.
In Catholic theology a valid sacrament requires the right matter, for
example bread and wine at the Eucharist, and the right intention.
This takes place particularly through the celebration of the Eucharist, when thereal presence of Jesus under the species of
bread and wine reveal and effect the union for which the universe longs.
These are the streets and stones touched by Jesus, the son of God, the place where the central ritual of Christianity was revealed, which
identified bread and wine with the sacrificial body and blood of the savior, and the place where the End Times will be orchestrated.
For example, a Lutheran clergyman in Denmark proposed celebrating communion over the radio, the people
placing bread and wine beside their radios to be blessed over the air by the media celebrant.
The Church holds that the communion
bread and wine do not change properties (i.e. appearance, density, etc.), but they do change essence (i.e. what they are).