👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 About Holy #Eucharist and and about our Lady #Virgin #Mary
Beloved and respected, all our members who follow the orthodox education that we convey on John's Repentance page; Based on the topic mentioned above, we have sent you the important lesson below, so we entrust you all to read and learn from it.
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I give for the life of the world is my body." (John 6:51)
This word speaks of the body of Christ in which eternal life is found. And this flesh was obtained from the Virgin Mary. The Gospel of John begins as follows: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God... and the Word became flesh" (John 1:1 and 14). When he said, "The Word became flesh," he is actually confirming that the Son of God came down from the heavens to save the fallen Adam, took the flesh from the Virgin Mary's body, and the soul from her soul, and appeared as a man. This is God who became man. Because, in the Old Testament (before God appeared in the flesh), God asked Adam, "Where are you, Adam?" / Gen. 3:10/ After making him tell his whereabouts, He gave him a promise of salvation, "I will be born from your grandson and save you" (Klemenitus).
Later, when the time came, the angel Gabriel was sent to the Virgin Mary and said to her, "Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus, and he will be great." He is also called the son of the innocent. (Luke 1:1-3) Holding this word, when we refer back what Isaiah said in his prophecy, "...therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign, behold, a virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call his name Immanuel." He says. (Isaiah 7:14)
The Lord Jesus also taught extensively about Bread from Heaven (John 6: 22-59). His teachings of ‘Bread from Heaven’ are the basis for Mystery of Holy Eucharist. St John the Evangelist summarized this as follows: “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.” (John 6:53-56). This eternal word remains to be the core theology of mystery of Holy Eucharist.
Jesus Christ, when he taught about his holy body and his precious blood, which was begotten from the Virgin Mary, united and given to the world for salvation, he said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you." (John 6:53).
All those who eat and drink the flesh and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, who was crucified on Friday to save us, will inherit the kingdom. The holy body and the noble blood given to the world for salvation is from the Virgin Mary. This is why we call her the cause of salvation (sign of salvation) in our teaching about the Virgin Mary.
Also, the prophet Isaiah said, 'Lord God will give you a sign', then using a connecting word "behold", he continued saying a virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, God has revealed to the house of David that the sign for the revelation of the Messiah and the salvation of mankind is a virgin and that she will conceive as a virgin. Later, when the prophecy was fulfilled while angel Gabriel was sent from God "to a virgin," the evangelist Lukas wrote in connection with the words of the prophet Isaiah, "and the virgin's name was Mary" (Luke 1:27).
This is why we say that the Virgin Mary is the origin and manifestation of the sacrament. Without having her, without believing that she is the Mother of God, without believing in her purity, her virginity, her glory and her intercession, it is not possible to receive Holy Communion, it is not possible to receive the sacrifice of the faithful.
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