This post by Halden on the significance of eating and death is purely amazing.
"The bread and wine of the Eucharist do not so much represent Jesus’ being killed, as his total self-expenditure, culminating in death through which we are nourished, sustained, and transformed. Eating signifies death, not because death is violent mutilation, but because it is the form of the radically prodigal, self-expending love that is the divine life which is given to us in Christ. The Eucharist embodies the transformation of identity from possession to gift. It proclaims a logic of redemption in which life, rather than needing to be secured as a possession, can be given away to the fullest."
See the rest here: Eating and Death
