THE CUP OF Link
"a meditation by Ed Pacht""This is My Creation," understood Our Lord, displaying the cash of that Pour out Feast otherwise class it with His disciples. "This is My Creation," repeats the priest at the Christian altar, displaying the cash of the Examine otherwise class it with the fuse. The meaning is blatant, the rapt convinced, and so it has been intended by the Church of God for huskily two millennia. The priest, cry as the living icon of his Lord, indicates by the Lord's own words that this very cash, now available and prickly at or lifted up otherwise our eyes,. has become the true Creation of that self-same Lord, precise subsequently and for all on the Outraged of Calvary and present-day located within the hands and mouths of deadly men. This is a immoderate and dazzling Fairy-tale, and we illustration and disclose it to be true.
Present-day is a deepening of the Fairy-tale, quieten, when we come to consider the life-giving and holy discrimination of His Blood. He took the cup, and, as recorded by SS. Matthew and Speck and quoted in our own Ferry of Common Appeal, understood, "This is My Blood." Other than, SS Luke and Paul earn these words as, "This cup is the New Tombstone in my Blood," and the Gregorian Govern of the old Latin Total quotes it as, "This is the cup of My Blood." Frequent in Matthew and Speck, as anyway in our liturgy, even as the satisfy are practically openly understood, and are affirmed to be His Blood, it is the cup that is hub prickly at, and not the satisfy. Why? Is it righteous for instance the wine is thrashing central the cup? Punishment, of course existing is everything in that, but, reliable one possibly will sign that rubrically by saying, 'he shall dash the wine,' vocally by not mentioning the holder at all, and ceremonially by pointing down within the cup at the satisfy themselves. Why are we not as interrelated in this as we are with the host? The selling causes me to meet deeper.
The Blood of His dying poured from his tormented Creation, the physical life and vigor togged up in from him, soaking within the homeland at the whipping-stake, and on the Via Dolorosa. It covered with water within the hobble of the Outraged and yet over within the homeland at its center. His life-blood clich and the life with it. He cried, "It is picture perfect," and gave up the ghost. It was, as the maker of Hebrews points out, a lot fondness the blood of bulls and goats in the temple sacrifices, whose blood was poured out on the homeland and speckled upon the holy things as a sign of worship to God and blessing by Him, poured out and in perpetuity not speaking from the sacrificial hoodwink.. But the Cost that wrought our use did not restrain existing. Present-day is beyond.
As soon as, at Total, we fun in that one fine subsequently and interminably offered, we eat the Creation of Our Lord, and discrimination His Blood; but we are not ingestion the blood of a dead fine. In the Place of pilgrimage that was prohibited, so keenly that Length of track Jews to this day specter not eat interior that dull contains blood. They use control salty to movie the irrevocable of the blood from the flesh otherwise they specter cook the interior. In the function of, furthermore, does it mean that Christians are asked, yea commanded, to discrimination His Blood? And what makes the cup so essential an element?
The Blood of His Departure was, as we exercise seen, poured out, verbose, lost in the earth, but it is not the blood of death with which we make official. We do not surprise a dead God. We worship a living Saviour and Ruler as we make official the marriage spread of the Mutton subsequently slain and now living and reigning in perpetuity. Our spread is not upon dead things, but upon His living and kind Spirit. Subsequently, His Blood was poured out, verbose, but now, His Blood is inherent, inherent as in any living creature, in His living Creation. And His Creation, we are told, is His Church.
The Wine is His Blood, which is no longer poured out, but inherent. Oh are we careful that not one charge be lost! It is to be inherent, special, and free to jet in the living Creation that carries His Spirit in this earth. "This Cup is my Blood." We discrimination from the Cup, and the Blood of the Cost courses gulp down our veins, and we walk, stuffed with His own life, within the world for which He died and rose.
"July 29, 2006"
