Jesus was lifeless in the tomb. Stone cold, stone-sealed.
His disciples were also lifeless. Their inner lives executed along with their rabbi, their physical lives under threat of the same kind of death.
The Eucharist is partly a remembrance of Christ’s death. “Whenever you eat this, remember me.” It is also a re-identification with his death. “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.”
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