#eucharist

[cath-lic]

mouse eating the eucharist, c. 1185, from worksop bestiary in the morgan library & museum

[luxangelae]

“The Firstborn of All Creation”

The cosmos flows from Christ's side, culminating in the Monstrance, the divine mystery of the Eucharist, through which we are invited to participate in holy union with Him 🌞

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

“The Eucharist is not theophagy” “The Eucharist is not cannibalism” omg shut up it literally is!!!!!! I get youre squirmish but idc! You are committing literal heresy. Is the Eucharist the body and blood of Christ or not? It is — whether you mean that sacramentally (physical presence), immaterially (spiritual presence), or metaphorically (memorialism). Is Christ God? If you are a Christian, the answer is 100% yes and this is not up for debate. Is Christ human? If you are a Christian, the answer is 100% yes and this is not up for debate. Then when you commune with Christ by taking him bodily into your embodied form via the Eucharist — whether physically, spiritually, or metaphorically — you are committing an act of both theophagy, the eating of god, and cannibalism, the eating of human flesh. In fact, most specifically it is theophagy by means of cannibalism. It is because of the humanity of Christ that we are able to eat God; it is because of the divinity of Christ that we are able to eat man.

[heresylog]

My favorite thing as a non Christian about Christianity is that you eat your god. Like, unironically, how fucking metal is that?? Like, yeah, I went to my church temple thing today and ate some of my god. And he's totally chill with it, btw. Tasted rad. Nom nom

We don’t eat “some” of Jesus. We eat all of Him. And his Blood too.

[weepingwidar]

Fabian Cháirez (Mexican, 1987) - La Eucaristía (The Eucharist) (2019)

[sedesapostolica]

[ynhart]

The Last Supper

[tomicscomics]

06/20/2025

Happy Feast of Corpus Christi (the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY:

1. The Feast of Corpus Christi (or the Body and Blood of Christ) is a feast day celebrating the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist ("Eucharist" is also called "Communion" or "the Lord's Supper"). The Real Presence is the belief that, at the height of Mass, the bread and wine at the altar are transformed, and while their details remain unchanged, their underlying reality becomes the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus (His "Real Presence"). In this Sacrament, we step outside of time to participate in the Last Supper, in the Passion, in our heavenly Wedding Feast, and in the very tangible Person of Christ. The Real Presence has been a core belief of Christianity since its very start. Paul writes about the importance of receiving Communion worthily in 1 Corinthians 11, and the apostle John's student, Ignatius of Antioch, emphasizes the Real Presence in his Epistle to the Smyrnaeans!

2. In this Bible story, Jesus breaks bread with His disciples at the Last Supper, giving thanks and saying, "This is My Body." The Greek word for "thanksgiving" is where we get the word "Eucharist" for the bread and wine offered at Communion.

3. In this cartoon, Peter realizes that "...this EUCHARIST is YOU, CHRIST!" but he enunciates it awkwardly so that the syllables of EU-CHA-RIST match up with YOU-CHuh-RIST.

4. For anyone scrolling through old cartoon descriptions years from now: yes, this is the comic people are talking about when they whisper about the day that Tomics "redefined humor." For the record, I attribute all of my inevitable future success to the grace God has gifted me. Sure, it was hard to be so talented and ground-breaking in my time, but my grace got me through, somehow. People called my grace the best grace. Lots of people called it that. Everyone, if you can believe it -- if the grace of faith has been given to you to believe such a thing. But, hey, what do they know? I'm just a humble guy, so I won't toot my own horn. If I wanted to, though, it'd be great: an orchestra in itself. It'd drop the walls of Jericho in only TWELVE laps.