Leaders
offer the bread and wine and the choir sings.
The fact that Melchizedek, l6 the priest - king of Jerusalem (already identified with Christ in Hebrews),
offered bread and wine (Gen. 14:18) made it natural for the royal priestly people to think of their cultural celebrant and spokesman, by assimilation, as their high priest.
Not exact matches
Only when what we
offer —
bread and wine — is connected with what the priest
offers to the Father after the consecration, namely the Body
and Blood of Christ, can we truly say that this is our
offering to God.3
Since once again, Lord — though this time not in the forests of the Aisne but in the steppes of Asia — I have neither
bread, nor
wine, nor altar, I will raise myself beyond these symbols, up to the pure majesty of the real itself; I, your priest, will make the whole earth my altar
and on it will
offer you all the labours
and sufferings of the world.
Sáenz recalls: «They killed him during the
offering of the
bread and wine.
Again, at the beginning, we have that mysterious figure Melchizedek, King of Salem, «priest of God Most High», with his
offerings of
bread and wine.
Instead of the twelve cakes, there are twelve disciples, there is the
bread and wine,
and the new
and everlasting covenant
offered by Jesus our Priest,
and eaten not at the golden table, but at Jesus» Table in the Kingdom of His Father (Luke 22:30).
Indeed it may be called the Christian sacrifice, for it is the
offering of thanks, praise,
and prayers, along with
bread and wine, to God known through Christ.
- the identical
offering of Jesus,
bread and wine, indicates that in the Hebrew scriptures we have «foreshadowed in mystery a type of the Lord's sacrifice,» the Lord, who is «more truly a priest of the most high God....»
But when we obey his command
and bless the
bread and wine, our Lord in making himself present to us his people makes present to us also the «one oblation of himself once
offered» on Calvary.
offering of Christ to his heavenly Father, as we are nourished by his risen life in the receiving of
bread and wine and so «make memorial» of him
and of all that he did
and was.
Christ has
offered his very real body
and blood so that at the last supper he can set a new pattern
and say of
bread «this is my body»
and of
wine «this is my blood.»
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These
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offering of consecrated
bread and wine.
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