By Brian Pizzalato In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist.

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Before going into the Gospels, let us consider a few Old Testament prefigurements or types of the Eucharist. The first foreshadowing is the bread and wine offered by the priest, Melchizedek, in ...

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However, many people, including some Jews, use the term “Old Testament”. This is because Christians have used this term for centuries.

In Eucharist, though we acknowledge that the whole Christ is truly present—body, blood, soul and divinity—we do not cannibalistically consume his physical body, which remains glorified in heaven.

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