March 05th, 2017

I was thinking in Mass today about the Eucharist and how the Holy Spirit is called down upon ordinary bread and wine which are changed by the power of the Spirit into the body and blood of Christ.  In the Eucharistic prayer or anaphora, Christ, giving thanks to God, said, "Take, eat, for this is my body which is broken for you.” Likewise He took the chalice, saying, “This is my blood which is shed for you. Whenever you do this, do this [in] memory of me.”  Jesus Christ commanded His apostles to do this in remembrance of Him.  But what exactly must we do.  Protestants laugh at Catholics because we partake in the body and blood of Christ in every Mass.  But our Eucharist is called the epiclesis and is what Christ in fact did at the last supper.  Christ surely did not cut off His leg and carve bits of flesh to pass around to the twelve apostles.  And he surely did not drain His blood from His severed leg into a cup and offer the warm libation to His guests. That would have been cannibalism.   No, Christ took ordinary bread and ordinary wine, and calling down the aid of the Holy Spirit, changed the oblations into His own body and blood.  And He commanded us to do the same. What must our protestant brothers do with their sola scriptoria?  They fail to follow the Lord’s command.