Living Eucharist

In the last of these mini-essays the focus was on the apparently deliberate eucharistic overtones in the accounts of the multiplication of the loaves.

Attention was drawn to how in Mark’s Gospel it is pointed out that Pharisees and disciples alike miss the point of the miracle, of the invitation made to life-giving communion with Jesus, our living Bread.

It is important for us to engage with these eucharistic themes that extend beyond the Last Supper, and are not about post-resurrection celebrations of the Lord’s Supper. Why? Because it is possible for us to be so narrowly focussed on the those events and our celebration that we miss the breadth of their significance for the rest of

In Sacramental theology the following distinctions are made between dimensions of Sacrament and sacramental presence.

  • Sacramentum tantum = “the sign alone” (e.g., bread and wine + words of consecration)
  • Res et sacramentum =…

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