At Mass yesterday, I had a strange vision... not that I "saw" this, but "was seeing" this,-- that the, not "death," but the "dying" of Jesus on the cross was itself the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, the realization in seeing him dying, the sacrament of his having had given his living Life, his "Flesh and Blood" to, not for us on "the night before he was betrayed." I agree with St. Aphraates that that "was the evening sacrifice," and that could never have been understood by those in the upper room on the night his life was given [ל] to us, hence the next day understood as [ל] for us.

It is interesting that it was his Living Body and Blood that Jesus gave-away that Night asking that his followers share-together in it. He did not participate. And that is why his followers could not share in his death, else he would be giving his dead body and dead blood.

All this, but for the most part of church history we have seen the Body and Blood of the Night he was betrayed as the sacrament of his Death on the Cross on Friday-- just the reverse.

It is his Living Flesh and Living Blood that he gives "for the Life of the World," not his dead body.