#lords 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.

[wisdomfish]

The two Israel's [Isaiah 42:1]

The two Israel's in view here are the blind and deaf and rebellious Israel, and the Holy Christ who is the "True Israel," "the True Israel" of the New Testament. The first Israel is a type of the True Israel which is Christ.

The first Israel came up out of Egypt, being called forth from Egypt by God; Christ the True Israel also was called out of Egypt (See Hosea 11:1 and Matthew 2:15). The birth of the first Israel as a nation was accompanied by a wholesale slaughter of innocent babies by Pharaoh who sought to destroy Israel; and the birth of the True Israel (Christ) was likewise accompanied by the wholesale slaughter of the innocents by Herod the Great. All of the first Israel were descended from Abraham; so was Jesus Christ the True Israel (Matthew 1:1). The first Israel, namely, Jacob, died; and Joseph begged the body of the first Israel from Pharaoh for the purpose of burying it; and when the True Israel (Jesus Christ) died, another Joseph begged the body of Pilate in order to bury it. The old Israel received "bread from heaven" in the form of manna in the wilderness; the New Israel receives Christ as the "bread from heaven," eating of his flesh and of his blood in the symbolical ritual of the Lord's Supper in the "wilderness of the Church's current probation." This is an extensive subject; but these few lines will demonstrate the validity of the type-antitype relationship between the two Israel's.

Note what is said here of the character of "The Servant." God's soul delighteth in him (the prophetic present for the future verb). Could this refer to the "nation" of the Old Israel? Certainly not. Ezekiel stated that the secular nation had become worse than Sodom and Gomorrah (Ezekiel 16). He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. The Old Israel absolutely refused to do this; and they are still refusing to do it... Only in the Ideal Israel, Jesus Christ our Lord, has justice and salvation ever come to the Gentiles. It was primarily because the physical Israel understood Jesus' intention of saving Gentiles that they rejected him and engineered his crucifixion.

~   Coffman, James Burton. "Commentary on Isaiah 42:1". "Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible".

[baileywilson013]

Jesus said every time you have bread or wine, you should remember. Bread is a staple food in countless societies. Even in prayer, we ask for our daily bread, because we are asking for the things we depend upon every single day. But our tradition has turned Communion into an event rather than a daily practice. The point is that we should remember as often as we eat, that we should remember constantly and daily. That we should remember as we take in what we depend upon every single day. 

[bibleillustrated]

1 Corinthians 11:26 Link: bible-illustrated.blogspot.com/2019/01/1Cor1116.html For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He comes. This illustration was made possible thanks to the generous donation of Fr. Branko Bosančić; consider pledging at: www.patreon.com/BibleIllustrated orwww.subscribestar.com/bible-illustrated

[bibleillustrated]

John 6:35 Link: bible-illustrated.blogspot.rs/2017/09/Jn0635.html And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst." This illustration was made possible thanks to the generous donation of Jay Young; consider pledging at: www.patreon.com/BibleIllustrated

[letmeillustrate]

Jesus Did Not Serve Grape Juice - Christianity Today

Why reopen debate about what we serve for Communion? Because it matters that we follow God’s commands.

[letmeillustrate]

Who Should Administer the Ordinances? - 9Marks

Just as your church (hopefully) does not allow just anyone to preach the Word, so also should your church think carefully about who administ

[letmeillustrate]

But I’ve been thinking a lot about the anonymous Christians of the church in Nicaea. We know so little about them. Yet evidence of their faith shines through gravestones, ancient graffiti, and bureaucratic records. Once a Roman governor, to find out the secrets of the Christians, tortured two enslaved women who were leaders of the church in Nicaea. They told him: The Christians "sing responsively a hymn to Christ" and gather to "partake of food." It’s such a simple statement of Christian life. So sturdy. We don’t know their names, but we know the truly important thing about them. If anyone’s going to remember anything about me in 1,500 or 1,600 years, it would be good if it was just this: He worshiped Jesus and ate with the church. —Daniel Silliman