The Theology of Christ's Body | The Eucharist Explained | THEOLOGY OF THE BODY
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- The source and summit of everything we believe as Catholics is the body and blood of Christ given up for us. While there are numerous ways of approaching the Eucharist, John Paul II’s Theology of the Body opens a great window into this mystery of mysteries. It reveals an insight into the theology of Christ’s body.
Saint John Paul II says that the Eucharist is the Sacrament of the bridegroom and of the bride. . . What does this mean? How does this explain the Eucharist?
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Wow. Just wow. Communion with our Lord. So blessed that the Catholic Church has maintained this Truth for us to experience Jesus. Preparing for Mass right now :)
Thanks for all you do Christopher West. You're really transforming lives.
Such a deep and thorough teaching, what a gift the Eucharist is!
This is beautiful teaching. I never thought about the wedding aspect. As a Missouri Synod Lutheran I believe in the true body and blood of Christ in communion, but for many years, I have worshiped in a beautiful church, but one that does not believe in it, but thinks it is symbolic. I do feel like it this has weakened my spirit over the years. I hunger for the Eucharist.
Thank you for sharing! We miss you in the Catholic Church. If you'd like to take a deep dive into the connection between true worship and the Eucharist, we'd recommend Christopher's latest book "Eating the Sunrise." You can find it here: shop.corproject.com/products/pre-order-eating-the-sunrise-meditations-on-the-liturgy-and-our-hunger-for-beauty-paperback
Come home to the Catholic Church dear friend and feed your hunger.
Thank you very much, Mr. West. It is very enlightening. May God bless your ministry.
Keep up these videos, God bless!
Such a beautiful explanation!!! What a GIFT!
I have joined the Priesthood and will be ordained in 2 years. Very happy for the Holy Eucharist 🥰
I'm a convert who is not confirmed yet... I've been telling my spiritual director I can't go up to the priest and cross my arms anymore during communion because the tears won't stop for how much I ache for the Eucharist. I have been saying how it feels like I'm engaged and need to remain chaste and in order to do so, I can't even be in the same room as my fiance.
This is exactly how I've been coming to understand the mystery of the Eucharist. It feels like a holy longing for Christ's body in a marital way... May St. Mary Magdalene pray for me as I learn to be chaste in all things. Especially the bridegroom, our Lord!
I have joined the Priesthood and will be ordained in 2 years. Very happy for the Holy Eucharist 🥰
Thanks you! I finally understand the Eucharist. You explained it so simply I had to get it.❤
Beautiful! Wonderful!
These truths and your presentation are so beautiful! God bless!!
Very enlightening and fascinating video. I enjoyed watching it for my ANT class.
Thank you brother West!
Thank you!
Wow. How did I not know this? Seems significantly relevant.
Thank you Mr. West. I'm a cradle Catholic, so I had somewhat of a mental idea/image of the Theology behind the Eucharist. It really helped me truly understand the Beauty of Holy Communion, as well as human erotic love points us towards Agape love, which is really the panicle of human existence. To love God, truly and fully. I'll be praying that everyone can learn to do these. Please pray that I do too. God bless, Pax Et Bonum.
Glory to God! Thank you for sharing.
So true. I’m not married but have heard friend that have said the same after they married. Perfect Union in Christ. And I think St. Louie de Montfort expresses the same : Our Lady the spouse of the Church.
Beautiful!
You know, in a way, it is the Eucharist consuming us... Christ is Immortal, and in transubstantiation, bread and wine become Christs body and blood, for reals :-). We imagine we consume the Eucharist, but is the Eucharist that is consuming us, as we become the One bread, the one body of Christ, as we are The Church. We dedicate, and rededicate, ourselves over and over again, to draw closer to Jesus, to worship God, to follow the Holy Spirit, to Honor Holy Mary and Saint Joseph, our human errors fade, our Hope and Faith and Love in Christ Grows. Every mass, every Eucharist, Christ's body grows, growing in each believer, growing in each disciple, growing in each sincere prayer of the Faithful. We are absorbed in the Miracle of the Eucharist. Praise God !
Beautiful, and the wedding of Cana in relation to the presence of Mary at the foot of the cross illustrates beautifully this theology.
Thank You
You're so welcome!
God Bless
God bless you too!
“ for by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified” Hebrews 10:14
Amen!
I appreciate the "theology of the body" as it testifies, as do the Gospels, to the incarnation of Christ, and as it refutes the Gnosticism of the world. But when the Lord ascended he didn't gives us his "body", he declared through St.Paul that the Church is His body, and gifted us the indwelling Spirit. The eating of the Passover Lamb wasn't of major importance but rather the "passing over" of the angel of death, and the exodus that followed. Likewise we as Christians have passed from death to life, having been set free by Christ's death and resurrection.
If we become one flesh we are the body and the bride.
I don't think you understand the "passing over" as I think it should be. If you didn't eat the Lamb in Egypt, the process of passing over is incomplete. How? God won't recognize you you as a free rider to the Land of Milk and Honey. Look I am just saying this but you can have it your way. God bless you.
Except you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you----Jesus Christ
Amen ❤
I think a scripture that helps explain the Eucharist is the story in 2 Samuel 23 15-17 "nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD. 17 And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?" This is speaking of David pouring some water on the ground. Why did David say, "is not this the blood of the men?" when speaking of the water? Did the water turn to blood?
Woah. That moment when it clicks... and you get it.
Is it kind of like consuming the body and blood of Dionysus.
You are making this up ….😮
I’m searching for a good argument/rationalization as to why transubstantiation is necessary in the sacrament of Communion.
If all of these analogies and parallels are true, and CW makes a great case, why is it necessary for God, through a catholic priest, to perform the miracle of transubstantiation. Isn’t it already the Body and Blood of Christ?
I appreciate the ritual and the necessity of church leaders to perform the rituals, but has the miracle already occurred before the ritual takes place?
ST. POPE JOHN PAUL II: “It is important to be ever mindful that communion with Christ is deeply tied to communion with our brothers and sisters. The Sunday Eucharistic gathering is an experience of brotherhood. The sign of peace is a particularly expressive gesture which the faithful are invited to make as a manifestation of the commitment to mutual love which is made in sharing the one bread.”
POPE BENEDICT XVI: “The Eucharist has a “personal and social character: Christ unites himself with me, but also with those beside me, and so unites himself equally with my neighbor. We are all one bread, one body. And this is communion - without solidarity with others the Eucharist is abused.”
Each time the Eucharist is celebrated at mass, a window is opened for us, people in the future, to live the same Golgota's redemptive sacrifice occurred two thousand years ago making us to eat and drink the ALIVE lamb's meat and blood. This is possible because God is not subjected to time and space dimesions, for Him is always PRESENT.
the first mention of Judas and his betrayal was (literally) at John 6, when Scripture records the majority of His Disciples leaving Him. There is no record of Judas' reason being the failure of Jesus to be the "military" Messiah. But the 'BETRAYAL' is prophesied right after the Jews said - "this is a hard saying".
If the host falls on the floor, does it hurt Jesus? Or chew him. And what happens to him once we swallow him? How long does it stay Jesus? Maybe I'm stupid, but I think these are important questions. Thank you.
.~The Eucharist, the Unification of the Body of Christ, (The Church) With the Life & Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross! Hallelujah Amen ❤️🔥🧎❤️🔥🪽😇💯💯💯💯
Amen!
The Last Apostle who drank from the Cup of Christ (Blood of Christ) had all the SALIVAS from all the Apostles who drank from it, perhaps including Judas Iscariot, for in one of the Gospels, Judas was narrated present in the Breaking of the Bread (Body) and distributing of the Cup of Wine (Blood) to the Apostles which they never complain drinking from one (single) cup only... In those days, mouthwashes and toothbrushes had not yet been invented, so most likely possible they had more contaminants in their SALIVAS than with us today.
If the Roman Catholic CHURCH took what Christ Jesus had said was LITERAL Body and Blood into the Bread and Wine... and the Apostles never complain about drinking from ONLY "One Cup" based on their FAITH in Christ... therefore, why does the R.C.C. more concerned about the HEALTH of the Priest and those who will be the PARTAKERS?... they need to wash first their hands before touching the Holy Eucharist, and they should have separate drinking cup separate from the Priest and Church members... Does this mean the R.C.C. really never TRULY believes 100% in the "LITERAL SUBSTANTIATION?"... Or perhaps just a "SPIRITUAL REPRESENTATION?"... Christ said, "Do this in memory (remembrance) of Me."
Praise be to God in Christ Jesus' name... Amen and Amen...
Where in Luke 22 do we see the inclusion of Mary as a symbol in the eucharist? The idolization of Mother Mary in Roman Catholic theology is beyond me, yet they say they dont worship her as they pray to her, adorn their places of worship with statues of her, etc etc. These are all extra-biblical dogmas of early Roman Popes, not actual teachings found in scripture. Catholics give high praise to the eucharist as part of a Christians walk as to why im here with open ear, but what I know from history halts me to accept such twisted views of meanings/purpose of sacrament as told by Roman Catholic theology. Where is your scriptural support for divinization? for Mary as the bride rather than the collective Body of Christ? You cannot provide it.
Is Mary the Theotokos or you dont call her like that following nestorius
Hail Mary Full of Grace... The Lord is with you,.. these were the words of the angel to Mary... Then if you come to the church there is what is called dulia, hyper dualia and Latria.... Latria is the reverence given to God alone, which makes Him the highest of All that is ... The dulia and hyperdulia belongs to Mary and the saints ...... They do not share equality with God... So stop accusing the Church of making Mary a God or idolization her.... The Catholic Church knows that she isn't idolizing her, but it is you we feel so, come down and bend low and understand what the church teaches....
Simeon was right when he said to Mary .. as for you this child shall pierce thy heart. These words of Simeon came to fulfillment in people like you who keep piercing the heart of Mary with your wrong thoughts.... Thanks
The Eucharist to give people salvation who don't have the Holy Spirit yet.
John 6:63 Jesus tells us that real flesh is worthless and it is the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist.
Peter responds and says yes your words of the Eucharist are to bring everlasting salvation. And that the disciples and friends are already saved.
The Jerusalem above is the mother of us all, Galatians 4:26. Christian’s today are the offspring.
"May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine,
the fragrance of your breath like apples,
and your mouth like the best wine." from Song of Songs 7: 8-9
It all makes sense!*.*
Jesus said He’s the living bread, the bread He gives is His FLESH, unless we eat His Flesh & drink His Blood, WE WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN US.If we eat & drink of Him UNWORTHILY, WE WILL BE LIABLE & BRING A SENTENCE AGAINST OURSELVES FOR NOT DISCERNING IT TO BE THE BODY & BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR GOD & SAVIOR. Jn6:51-59, 1Cor 11:23-29
Too deep... I have to keep listening to it to get the full meaning. It's more of a revelation than a teaching.
Honestly brother
It sounds more than just a communion but a practice
It is deep! That is why it is the mystery of our faith. Bring it to prayer and God will grant you clarification in his generous graces.
Why cathollics take only what they call as body when the Lord said take both body and blood all
Eucharist in the species of the bread contain the body and blood. No need to drink the species of wine. But we do drink the cup of blood in certain parishes
@@smart_joey_4179 well Jesus Christ said ALL EAT... ALL DRINK...we orthodox only do that ALL..
@@user-pj7sq7ce1f like I said before the species of the bread has both body and blood so even if you don't drink the blood you still recieve the fullness of the sacrament. Also the priest recieves both species every mass. So even if the congregation does not recieve both the priest does. Also if you say that you HAVE to recieve both species then what about people with allergies and they have to recieve just the blood?
@@smart_joey_4179 Jesus Christ said ALL EAT ... All DRINK... You claim about Peter that the Lord had a special place why you dont follow them the says of the Lord for the Holy Eucharist
@@smart_joey_4179 nothing as an physical illness comes from the body and blood of Lord Jesus Christ
So a Catholic literally has no way of discerning whether or not the wafer in their hands has been blessed, and it if wasn't properly blessed, then they are literally engaging in idolatry?
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And you know that... how? What does that even mean? Sounds like blind faith to me...
@@Justhumbleme
So you're not gonna answer any of my questions? Why do you think that blind faith is ever a good thing?
Hey! Where did Alfred go? Hm...
@@Justhumbleme
The wafer, Alred. FOCUS!!
I’m not on board with that analogy. I believe the Eucharist to be the body of Christ and the one to be the blood of Christ you don’t have to look at it any further
The Eucharist is the body and blood of Jesus Christ....when you see the Eucharistic miracles
The host bleeds
Watch Eucharistic miracles on UA-cam.
🤣 Obviously you are a Protestant ....and persuaded not to believe in the mother of your God Jesus ....that's heresy ...it goes against the wishes of Jesus ....Jesus ( God ,) actually listened to His mother ....Mary and obeyed her request to turn the water into wine .....which you protestants tend to forget ...Jesus loved and obeyed His mother ..... Afterall he shared her
DNA
Her DNA MADE HIM MAN
SCIENTIST HAVE STUDIED THE BLOOD SAMPLES FROM THE EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES AND SEPARATED THE DNA .
Jesus did not “leave” the Father when he become man - the trinity is indivisible
I think you’re taking that literally.
May God forgive you for preaching without understanding.
Mary is the Bride ??? Seriously ???
I think he means bride in a spiritual way.. Obviously he's not humanly married to his mom 😂
We poop it out.