the Communion is Important?

Question

John 6

35Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

41At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven." 42They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?"

43"Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered. 44"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day. 45It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.'[d] Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died. 50But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. 51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

52Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever." 59He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.

what i meant by communion is NOT eating and drinking real flesh and blood of course. but the bread and wine.

i meant.. it is a symbol of eating and drinking the flesh and blood of Jesus. but just a symbol.

Answer 1

Absolutely! Catholics, the Orthodox Churches, and Protestants all celebrate communion. They just have different theology behind it.

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Addition - Again you need to study the teachings of the chuch. Click on the link below. The teaching of the Catholic Church is not that the bread and wine are symbolic. Read about transubstantiation.

Answer 2

Did any one in the Bible at any time actually eat Jesus' flesh?
Or drink his blood?
As was his tradition, Jesus was using the wine and the bread as SYMBOLS, to explain that those wishing to gain life had to mirror his conduct so closely as to (metaphorically speaking) eat his flesh and drink his blood. The doctrine of the Eucharist is disgusting and repugnant. He also said we had to pick up our stake and follow him, yet I do not see anyone dragging 'crosses' around. Get it straight, Jesus always used illustrations as a teaching method. Flesh and Blood is an illustration.

Answer 3

Communion is very important!!!

1Co 11:20 Therefore when you meet together, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper,
1Co 11:21 for in your eating each one takes his own supper first; and one is hungry and another is drunk.
1Co 11:22 What! Do you not have houses in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you.
1Co 11:23 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread;
1Co 11:24 and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, "This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me."
1Co 11:25 In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me."
1Co 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes.
1Co 11:27 Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
1Co 11:28 But a man must examine himself, and in so doing he is to eat of the bread and drink of the cup.
1Co 11:29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not judge the body rightly.
1Co 11:30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.
1Co 11:31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.
1Co 11:32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
1Co 11:33 So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
1Co 11:34 If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will arrange when I come.

Answer 4

There's nothing more important, if you partake of the real thing, and not just bread and wine.

For all you who lack faith, or who never learned the truth:

God created everything from nothng simply by speaking.

Compared to that feat, it must be very easy for God to temporarily transform one substance into another substance.

Didn't God conceive Jesus inside the womb of the Blessed Virgn Mary?

Didn't Jesus actually transform water into wine?

Didn't Jesus miraculously multiply a few loaves and fishes in order to feed the multitude?

Didn't Jesus die, and three days hence raise himself up from the dead?

Didn't Jesus miraculously escape from mobs and later, walk through locked doors and through walls?

Didn't Jesus walk on water?

Didn't Jesus restore sight to the man born blind, by making a complete set of fully functioning eyeballs, optic nerves, eye muscles, etc. from dust and spittle?

Didn't Jesus instantly restore the entire diseased, stinking, decomposing body of his friend Lazarus, and raise him up from the dead?

After all this, what's so tough about changing a bit of bread and a draught of wine into the authentic body and blood of Christ?

What if God decided to let the flesh continue to look like bread, and the blood continue to look like wine, just to see who had faith and who didn't?

Maybe there's going to be a special crown or special prize in heaven, for those who get it right!

Those who look only to scripture for all the details are doomed forever to faulty, stinking thinking.

There was no doubt in the minds of the apostles that what they were celebrating, sacrificing, and commemorating at every Mass was the authentic body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ.

They probably couldn't understand it any better than we can, but they knew it, and they believed it, because Jesus said it.

They were there with him at the Last Supper. Don't you think they might have had a few questions? Don't you think Jesus would have been careful to make himself very clear on the subject?

Later, at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit (the member of the Trinity who actually performs the transformation) reviewed it with them.

The apostles passed their knowledge of the eternal sacrifice along to the church, where the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus has been appropriately worshipped, treasured cherished, and consumed, ever since.

It's very likely that there's not more about the Eucharist in the bible simply because none of the apostolic writers expected that anyone would ever question a matter that is, without doubt, the centerpiece of Christian worship, and the source and summit of our existence.

Jesus, by divine command, caused the perfect and eternal sacrifice of Calvary, which is his body and blood, soul and divinity, to become present for his apostles, under the appearance of bread and wine, at the Last Supper.

Jesus empowered his apostles, along with others whom they were authorized to ordain, to continue the commemoration of his death and resurrection, the New Testament sacrifice in his blood, for the benefit of those of us who remained, or were still to come, until he returns for the church at the end of the age.

The next day, Jesus suffered and died on the cross, completing the act which would destroy the dominion of Satan, empower the church, and open the gates of heaven.

This is what the apostles knew. This is what Jesus and the Holy Spirit taught. This is what the apostles handed down to the church. This is what faithful Catholics continue to believe today.

Who cares (other than those who mistakenly accept the false doctrine of Sola Scriptura) if scripture doesn't say more about it!

Regarding the nonsense about Catholics re-crucifying Christ at every Mass, this is a very simple concept that seven year old children are capable of understanding:

Jesus is God, master of time and space, creator of all things.

Jesus is the perfect and eternal sacrifice of Calvary.

Wherever Jesus IS, THERE IS is the perfect, eternal sacrifice of Calvary.

There is no need to re-crucify him. That was a one time event. His presence (re-presence) is enough.

This re-presentation of the perfect and eternal sacrifice of Calvary, who is Jesus, in the flesh, but under the appearance of ordinary bread and wine, occurs as part of the holy liturgy which we Catholics call the Mass.

Blessed with the real presence of Christ at Mass, we are empowered to offer up to God the most holy and acceptable sacrifice in all the universe.

Presented with a sacrifice such as this, God's righteous anger for the sins of the world is appeased and turned aside, and his just punishment is turned to mercy and grace.

Through Jesus and his most holy sacrifice, supernatural peace between God and sinners can truly exist, exactly as it was foretold by the angels, who attended his birth.

To prove it, God shares the body and blood of his divine son with us at communion time.

So ... no symbolism here.

Real body of Christ.

Real Blood if Christ.

Real soul of Christ

Real Divinity of Christ

Looks like bread and wine, but the bread and wine is really and truly transformed into Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit, through the words of consecration, as spoken by a properly ordained Catholic priest or bishop, during Mass.

The Eucharist (Holy Communion) is a supernatural work of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, centered on Jesus Christ.

The source and summit of our Christian existence and the true means of sustenance and strength for the church and entire world, the Holy Eucharist is the most precious substance (and person) in the entire universe.

Don't live your life without it.

Answer 5

Yes.

Answer 6

i like where u r coming from too, and i definately like where u r going. C u when u get there.

Answer 7

A lot of think so. Some of us every day.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

he has to be speaking a parable, accept him

Answer 10

it is extremely important.