David S Harvey’s Reviews > Holy Grail and the Eucharist > Status Update

Bulgakov offers a compelling and brilliant reading of the Holy Grail that is theologically dense but significant. Moving beyond the legend and stories, he asks what it means for the world… for us… that Christ’s blood is poured out into the earth.

The matter of the world that turned out to be worthy of receiving Christ's blood and water is also worthy of the mysterious transmutation of its ele ments in the Eucharist.

“This blood and water wash human sin and create the New Testament Church, with its grace-bestowing mysterious gifts: baptismal water and eucharistic blood. Out of the side of the old Adam was created woman, who tempted him to fall. But the wound delivered to humankind from Adam's side is healed by the spear wound in Jesus' side. The blood and water that flowed into the world abide in the world.“

The whole world is the Holy Grail, for it has received into itself and contains Christ’s precious blood and water.