Our Lord also ate the Passover lamb with the apostles because He celebrated the Paschal meal with the apostles according to the prescription of the law. And now, He used bread and wine exactly to establish the new Paschal sacrifice of the Church, the sacrifice of the new and everlasting covenant. This sacrifice will no longer be a blood sacrifice with a concrete animal, but with bread and wine as the sacramental signs of His bloody sacrifice on the Cross.
The lamb's sacrifice in the Old Testament was not for Himself; it was a sign of the sacrifice of the true Lamb of God, Christ's body and blood. Thus, the bread and wine were instituted by our Lord as the sacramental signs of his bloody sacrifice, His Paschal lamb sacrifice on the Cross, of which He is the Lamb of God. The Holy Mass with the sacramental signs of bread and wine truly represents and makes the actual presence, in an unbloody and sacramental manner, of the sacrifice of the cross.
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