Sacred Bites

• The last supper was a real sacrifice in which Christ’s blood was poured out for our sins in the cup. (*610, 621, 1339)

• In the Mass the bread & wine become the literal body & blood of Christ. (*1373-1377)

• Christs body & blood exist wholly & entirely in every fragment of consecrated bread & wine in every Roman catholic church around the world. (*1392, 1405, 1419)

• The consecrated bread & wine are heavenly food which can help one to attain to eternal life. (*1392, 1405, 1419)

• The consecrated bread & wine are to be worshipped as divine. (*1378-1381)

• Christ has ordained certain men to the ministerial office of the priesthood to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross by the performance of the mass. (*1142, 1547, 1577)

• The sacrifice of the Mass is the sacrifice of the cross. Only the manner in which it is offered is changed (*1085, 1365-1367)

• The sacrifice of the cross is perpetuated in the sacrifice of the Mass. (*1323, 1382)

• The Mass makes Christ present in His death & victimhood. (*1353, 1362, 1364, 1367, 1409)

• At each Mass the priest presents again to the Father the sacrifice of Christ. (*1354, 1357.)

• The Mass is an unbloody sacrifice which atones for the sins of both the living and the dead. (*1367, 1371, 1414)

• Each sacrifice of the Mass appeases God’s wrath on sin. (*1371, 1414)

• The faithful receive the benefits of the cross in fullest measure through the sacrifice of the Mass. (*1366, 1407)

• The sacrificial work of redemption is continued through the performance of the sacrificial Mass. (*1364, 1405, 1846)

• The Church is to continue the sacrifice of Christ for the salvation of the world. (*1323, 1382, 1405, 1407)

The remission of the venial sins which are not yet remitted, occurs . . . as it does in this life, by an act of contrition deriving from charity and performed with the help of grace. This act of contrition, which is presumably awakened immediately after entry into the purifying fire, does not, however, effect the abrogation or the diminution of the punishment for sins, since in the other world there is no longer any possibility of merit.
The temporal punishments for sins are atoned for in the purifying fire by the so-called suffering of atonement (satispassio), that is, by the willing bearing of the expiatory punishments imposed by God (Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, p. 485).

https://www.aomin.org/aoblog/roman-catholicism/satispassio-suffering-of-atonement/

These are some of the places in the Catholic Catechism in which talk about transubstantiation. This sets the strange context for my question regarding the Atonement. Since it is the same atonement represented and Christ is completely in the Eucharist (Body and Blood) then this leads to a strange implication. Millions of Catholics must think they have literally eaten Christ atonement many numerous times. This requires careful chewing. For a Catholic, he must not bite too jaggedly because if he does he will falsify a biblical prophecy

John 19:31-37

31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. 35 He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. 36 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37 And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.”

Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
He keeps all his bones;
not one of them is broken.
 (Psalm 34:19–20)

That was seemingly the truth but Jesus has had his bones broken many times. People have been eating his bones for almost two millennia now. So, I wonder how a Catholic can maintain that Christ has and hasn’t had his bones broken during his atoning work. Or that in eating his body that no one has bitten his bones. 

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