The Eucharist the new Bread of the Presence

Bread of the Presence

The Eucharist

God’s visible presence with his people

symbolic (Ex 25:30) of the Glory Cloud in the Most Holy Place of the Tabernacle (Ex 40:34-35) and in the first Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kgs 8:10-11)

Jesus's real presence (Mt 26:26 & Jn 6:48-51) at mass and in church tabernacles throughout the world

Offered to God

as a food offering every Sabbath (Lev 24:7-8)

Jesus offered his body at the Last Supper (Lk 22:19)

Bread accompanied with wine

drink offering (Ex 25:29)

Jesus offered his blood (Lk 22:20)

Memorial offering of sealing an eternal covenant with God

God's covenant with Israel at Mount Sinai (Lev 24:7-8)

Jesus’s new covenant with us (Lk 22:19-20)

Eaten

by Levitical priests only (Lev 24:9)

by kingdom priests (1 Pet 2:9) i.e. the baptised and in communion with the Church (1 Cor 10:16-18)