Theologically speaking Eucharist is a harvest festival. Because we offer fruits of the earth and of human labour at every Eucharist. Bread is made out of wheat flour. People work hard to get the harvest of wheat. Wine is made out of grapes. Again people toil hard to get the harvest of grapes from the creeping plant of vine. Here we see how God offers the flesh and blood of his son through our harvest for our spiritual nourishment.
When we go a step further we can learn that all our worships are harvest festivals. The theological word for worship is called liturgy and this word is derived form 2 Greek words called – λαός – laos (people) and – έργον – ergon (work) The result of work of people is harvest. Therefore in our worship we offer to God the harvest of our God given time, money and resources etc.
It is the belief of Christians that every Eucharist is a small Easter. Whenever we celebrate the Eucharist we are living in the resurrection of the Jesus Christ. Beginning from the early Christians up to date we meet the resurrected Christ in the Eucharist.
According to the theology in the letter of James (James 1:18) resurrected Christ is God’s spiritual harvest and the first fruit of all he created.
