The Lord's Supper...?

Question

why do Catholics only eat the Bread but not Drink the Wine?

Answer 1

Hi - Actually most Catholic Churches DO use both bread and wine at least once a week at their Masses - some do it every day. The only reason that for years that practice was discontinued (I think) was simple expediency. Catholics, unlike many religions have regular services every single day, sometimes more than once a day. Simply put it was just "easier" but drinking of the cup is a fuller expression of the meaning of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. We believe that the Body and Blood are contained completely in EACH of the forms of bread and wine. Thank you for your interest! - Sincerely, Sister Regina

Answer 2

What I want to know is why everyone in the Judeo-Christian world doesn't celebrate the Lord's Supper (the Jews do, each year on cue, and Jesus was a Jew).

Jesus didn't just eat bread and drink wine. They had lamb, maybe some veggies. It was a full blown meal. It was partially a fun meal, like any party and then it became a more serious time when Jesus gave out his death bed wishes. And he "broke bread" and passed the loaf around, saying this is my body. It wasn't a pack of Ritz crackers. It was Middle Eastern bread (leavened or unleavened, not sure, it didn't have to be unleavened on this day).

Jesus told his disciples they would all sup again in his Father's house, after the end of time.

Will we all be able to handle that? The bitter herbs, the lamb, the wine, the bread, the foot washing.

This is a golden opportunity for churches to really get people together and in the spirt. Not with pews and kneeling boards, but the tables, food, good cheer and then solumn rememberance.

That's what the Jews do each year, as that's what the celebration was about and Jesus didn't want this to end. He wanted the "new ways" the "reformation" incorporated in this event.

Jesus was about a new way of living, thinking, acting. He wasn't trying to end the Jewish religion, he was taking it to a new level.

It was most of the Christians that ended it, along with the Jewish rejection.

If you think your situation is bad, go check communion out in a Protestant church with little fish crackers and thumbles of grape juice!

I've been trying to pin down the exact date of the Last Supper and have been holding my own celebration with Rabinical wine, drunk in the traditional way (3 glasses and some left over for the missing person) meat, bitters of some type (salsa, horseraddish, etc.) I no longer worry about leavening, as the Lord's Supper was on Prepairation day (the day they purged the house of leavening) as the next day was the start of Pesach (Passover).

I like to celebrate the day as close to the real day and date (which is fixed, not a movable feast) as I can. And I like to think of what he said and how he said we should be (which we are all far from being).

Having never participated in a true Seder dinner I'm probably going to have problems should Jesus ask me to sup at that time, especially since I'm not found of lamb. Nor do I undestand the rituals that his Jewish diciples may use. But I'd like to as least have a better understanding of what it was all about, as close as I can and what goes on in Churches is so far away from what went on at that table, that I just can't get into to the whole concept that way.

Of course that's just me!

Answer 3

Catholics DO drink the wine during the Mass. Bread and wine and inseparable in the remembrance act, as Jesus give both His Body AND Blood on the cross of Calvary for the sake of the world, not the Body OR the Blood only.

Answer 4

I don't think so. They have the Eucharist with both wine and bread (or wafer). Not sure about Catholic churches, but with Anglican ones they usually have one cup that everyone takes a sip from, and it's real wine. Catholics believe the bread and wine are transubstantiated (ie the bread and wine become the real body and blood of Jesus when eaten due to something in the bible), so I can't imagine either being left out.

Answer 5

We do drink the wine, as well as eat the bread. At the churches I have attended, it's offered to everyone, and it's your choice whether or not you actually want to drink the wine. Some don't like it for its taste, and I personally have never found it appealing to drink from a cup that the rest of the congregation just did before me, so I usually don't. It's not a rule though.

Answer 6

Catholics do drink wine, right after they take the bread

Answer 7

I have always seen the Catholic's eat the bread and drink the wine. Where did you get your info?

Answer 8

Many places have stopped serving wine because of concern for alcoholics. Another reason is the communal cup and the concern of germs being spread. Some parishes have stopped serving wine altogether, others have started using individual cups that are blessed and filled with wine.

Answer 9

They drink the wine

Answer 10

Good for them if they don't drink wine. Because they are doing only one sin instead of two.