What does the heavenly Bridegroom offer the faithful on His table?

The Bridegroom offers His body to the bride to partake of it. St. Jacob of Sarug says, “Who ever saw a bridegroom sacrificed at the marriage supper, or brides eating their betrothed? The Son of God has done a new thing in the world, which no man ever did but He

1507 Catena Aurea .

1508 St. Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons 235.2 (FOTC 38:229).

1509 Melito of Sardis, On Pascha and Fragments , ed., Stuart George Hall (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979): 61, 66–67, pp. 33, 35–37.

alone. His Body and His Blood He has set forth at the feast before them that sit at table, that they may eat of Him, and live with Him without end. Meat and drink is our Lord at His marriage supper: blessed is He who has given us His Body and Blood, that in Him we may delight.”¹⁵¹⁰