Please provide scripture to support your claim that abiding in Christ is related to the Eucharist
(Jhn 15:4 KJV) Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
(Jhn 15:7 KJV) If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
It is at the Eucharist when we receive Jesus The Word, that we ask what we will, it is the most intimate time between God and man, it is Communion.
We believe Jesus words, that His flesh is real food and blood is real drink, believing this, we are robed in faith and can come to Him in the Eucharist and eat His Body and drink His Blood.
We recognise the Lord at the breaking of the bread.
The Eucharist is Jesus Himself who comes to us with great graces to sustain us and to make us fruitful.
I have had very powerful spiritual experiences with Jesus in The Holy Eucharist, this is the wedding feast of The Lamb. Covenants are complete exchanges of persons and this is what happens when we eat Jesus flesh and drink His blood.
The scripture listed does not relate "abiding in Christ" to the Eucharist.
“ He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood, abides in me and I in him “
Jesus own words relate abiding in Him to eating His flesh and drinking His blood.
“ Take this all of you and eat it, this is my body “
“ The bread that I shall give for the life of the world, is my flesh. “
“ My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink “
This is the new and everlasting Covenant.
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock. If any man shall hear my voice, and open to me the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”
Many hear His voice and do not open their door. Jesus invites many to eat His flesh and drink His blood, but they do not believe that His flesh real food and blood is real drink.
So their door is closed to the Eucharist.
To believe is not just intellectual assent, to believe is to eat His flesh and drink His blood as told us to in Faith.
The invitation has been sent out to all, the very words of Jesus in Scripture which should suffice you and also the voice of the Fathers and Martyrs who testified with their blood.
The invitation to this feast is roared and bellowed by the words of Christ in Scripture and all the Early Christians down to even a nobody like myself.
Yet people will make their excuses not to attend this feast, to attend it would cost them, possibly their present respect and standing or even livelihood.
If you can truly believe though all the Heavenly cosmos and physical cosmos will pass away and Jesus words will never pass away then it is easy to believe Jesus words when He says.
“ My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink “
“ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.”
This is why we keep receiving Jesus in the Eucharist, He is The Vine and we are the branches that receive His Life to sustain us.
“ So he who eats me, will live because of me “
“They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again. They who deny this gift of God are perishing ” Ignatius of Antioch, Epistle to Smyrnaeans, 7,1 (c. A.D. 110).
Bishop of Antioch, disciple of John, Martyr in the pagan arenas.