Here's an interesting thought I had whist helping serve communion. If God is outside of time as we think of it, then for Him the past, present and future are all as one, all time is now. This means that whilst we are taking communion we are actually sharing in the last supper with those first disciples, because it is happening now. And as we share in the body and blood, Jesus is hanging on the cross dying for your sins and mine, right at that moment, and at every moment during our whole lives.
That's a big thought. Wow.
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Indeed. So when we say that Jesus dies every time we sin, we really mean it. It's challenging, but really humbling and "connecting".
Every Eucharist is both an amanesis, a bringing into the present, of the Last Supper but also a sharing of the heavenly, eschatalogical banquet.
I guess it is one of those events that stands outside of time- at least that is how I view it- when we recieve bread and wine it is as if it were from Jesus hands, and in ministering the sacrements we become those hands- as Mike says humbling and connecting....
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