Written by God…brought to you by the Bible Geek®
The Catholic belief and understanding of the Eucharist is not restricted to the events explained and gifted to us through Christ in the Gospel accounts, or through St. Luke in Acts and St. Paul in his writings. To understand the Eucharist from a Biblical perspective, we need to have a deeper understanding of God’s entire plan of salvation, beginning in the Old Testament.
It’s obvious that the Old Testament Scriptures “prefigured” (a big way of saying, “foreshadowed”) the Eucharistic sacrifice thousands of years earlier. Stick with me here… The Passover Lamb In Exodus, we first read about the Passover. If you’ve never seen The Prince of Egypt, I recommend it, because its depiction of the Passover scene is breath-taking (no pun intended). Anyway, it’s in Exodus chapter 12 that we first read about God’s prescription for the Passover feast.