Moroni 5 The Bread and Water Represent

When Jesus says that he wants us to remember his body and blood we need to ask “why?”  What is it about his physical body and blood that is so important that he wants us to partake of it weekly?  He wants us to know that he was mortal like we are; possessing a physical body with life giving blood, but that is the end of the physicality of the sacrament.  The richness of remembering his body comes in the fact that he is the “Bread of Life.”  When we take him into our symbolic core—our hearts—we become more like him.  We are to eat and digest his gospel, his way of living, his hope, his grace until our bowels are full of charity.  Regarding the water and remembering his blood which was shed for us, this is about his atonement and the “Living Water” of his redeeming love and sacrifice.  The blood that was shed in the Garden of Gethsemane as he bled from every pore is the most precious blood ever spilt.  He skinned his knees as a boy.  He cut his fingers with his first carvings.  These moments were also for us as he grew and progressed toward his later responsibilities.  He was brutally beaten by the priests.  Isaiah says they yanked out parts of his beard.  Then he was whipped by the soldiers. The crown of thorns was shoved onto his head.   His blood spilled.  The final piercing of his side by the soldier’s spear was the last of it.  Combined with the torture of his body on the cross, the story of his life are represented humbly and simply by the sacramental body and blood—the bread and water.  May we always remember him and keep his commandments that we may have his spirit to be with us.