“Eating the body of Jesus — isn't that cannibalism?”

The Eucharist — Christ giving himself for us

🛡️The Church's answer: The Eucharist is not cutting up a corpse and eating it. The properties of bread and wine that the senses register remain, but the Church believes that the whole Christ, risen and alive, is sacramentally present. It is a communion in which we receive the love of Jesus, who gave himself as the food of life.

🧐If they press further: “So do our teeth injure the body of Jesus?” — No. Treating Christ's sacramental presence as though it were the position and condition of a piece of biological flesh is a mistranslation of what the Church confesses.

✨In one sentence: “The Eucharist isn't tearing at human flesh — it's the sacrament of receiving the whole risen Christ under the appearances of bread and wine.”