The Precious Blood and the Eucharist

With the help of some biblical texts, we reflect on the devotion to the Precious Blood, framed in the Misa, and the Christian commitment to approaching communion. San Pablo, in his letters states:

1.“Is the blessing cup not communion with the blood of Christ? (1 Corinthians 10:16) San Pablo affirms that those Christians who participate at the same table of the Eucharist are called to live in communion, participation, solidarity, closeness and forgiveness. Therefore: a) Participating in the Eucharist is a life commitment that asks us to have good relationships between us. b) If we share ourselves with Christ, we also have to identify with all those who share the same Christ. c) Y También states San Pablo (1st Corinthians 11, 29) “who eats and drinks the body of Christ unworthily, eats and drinks his own condemnation, wanting to decide, that it is absurd to approach eating the Body of Christ and live on the street, in the family or in any place we frequent, there are no good relationships between us and until we deny our health, we talk and we criticize ourselves, we are angry and we are selfish, because that is what causes the punishment of God, and we can't decide that we love God when we don't see it, if we don't love the brother we see.

2. This cup is the new alliance in my blood (1 Corinthians 11:15) The blood of Christ spilled, was the price that cost the Salvador the Alliance between God and us, and that is to say, through the Blood of Christ humanity unites with God and frees us from our sins by obtaining forgiveness. The blood of Christ is not something that belongs to Christ, but it is Christ himself, so communing is identifying us with his way of living.

San Mateo in 26, 28, states that Jesus did not shed his Blood for as many or as many, but for all and that he must bring us more spiritualist contemplation and must commit us to him who suffers, because every time someone suffers, he continues to shed the blood of Christ. San Juan in 6, 51, states that Jesus, through the spill of his blood, became the source of Life and that only in Him we found our satisfactions and our happiness. «For all that, the blood of Christ is rooted in the Eucharist and from Ella we receive the strength to live day by day and for this reason the devotion to the Precious Blood, must be at the center of our Christian life.

Commitments to participate in the Eucharist:

1. We do not have to get used to participating in the Eucharist as a matter of routine, or because the Church commands it, or as a simple devotion.
2. It is incongruous to think that we go to Mass to reassure our conscience and not live in the wake of Jesus
3. The Eucharist has to become a place of shared love and come out of it to give testimony to the Word we heard.
4. One cannot commune and cannot be sensitive to brothers who pass through poverty, or to those who are deprived of freedom and justice.
5. We cannot convert it into a “comedy” and give us peace and not eliminate the resentment and exclusionary attitudes of our hearts towards other brothers.
6. We cannot share and disagree with the lives of others
7. We have to live like Christ, who makes everything good for everyone.
8. We cannot share and be agents of evil and cause suffering to others, having to spill the blood of Christ again.
9. We have to try to eliminate all violence that exists around us and promote peace, tolerance, illusion, and the desire to live.
10. We must seek our happiness and our great aspirations in the blood of Christ.

(Fr. Paulino, CPPS)