Catholics...do you believe CHrist is truly present in the eucharist?

Answer 1

Yes.

At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “Take this bread. It is my body.” Then he said, “Take this and drink. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me.”

Catholics believe this was the First Eucharist, that through some miracle the bread and wine actually became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Catholics reenact the Last Supper during every Mass, where the priest, acting in place of Christ, changes the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

This is a great sacrament of thanksgiving and unity of Catholics.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Yes. The Eucharist, is the source and summit of the Catholic Faith. After the consecration there is not a crumb of bread, or a drop of wine on the altar. All that is present is Christ, who is both priest and the unbloodly sacrifice.

If it was anything other than Christ present body blood soul and divinity, do you think that Christians for 2000 years would be falling down in worship of the Eucharist?

Answer 3

im a catholic but I sometimes think some catholic teaching is bs.

For example, they went and made the assumption of mary a dogma, something that isn't even in the bible and didn't become a belief until 600 years after the death of christ.

so I'm not totally sure on my religious standing regarding this eucharist issue. I think it overly supports a christ who is physically present in the world, and therefore a heaven that is a physical place. I tend to lean more to the spiritual belief and the symbolic meaning of the eucharist.

Maybe I'll become a protestant.

Answer 4

I do believe Christ is truly present in the Eucharist.

I agree with "imacatholic2".
I would add : John 6.

Answer 5

ICommunion is a symbol, Christ Himself is the bread of life and He lives within the believer giving sustenance like bread itself. His blood is the atonement for sins once for all to bring us to God. It's a symbol of what His blood did as a sacrifice for sins. Thus, forgiveness apart from a Roman Catholic priest is not only possible but necessary. Christ did for us what we could not - that is sacrifice His perfect life in substitution for us. That's why Jesus said, "This is my body broken for you. This is the cup of the new covenant - and do this in remembrance of me." The new covenant is not like the old. It's not about the rules that lead us to understand we can't keep them. It's about Him living in us. The focus is off of the tradition and us and totally on Him. He wanted us to remember that His blood is the atonement and that He is the bread of life - it's not about the tradition itself at all - it's about Him. I heard a priest out in TN who says you're not really married if you married outside the Roman Catholic church. Your tithe means nothing if it's not to the "one true original church" the Roman Catholic. They say you can't even be forgiven for your sins without forgivess from a Roman Cathlolic priest. God wouldn't even recognize your faith at the gates of heaven outside of the Roman Catholic acts of righteousness that communion where Christ isn't truly present isn't Roman Catholic and not a valid practice. I personally have problems with these lines of thinking because I don't see any basis for these beliefs outside of the Roman Catholic traditions and these traditions were not practiced by the earliest church. I can't find a basis for these ideas in the bible or the earliest most widely accepted manuscripts in use by the early church. Alot of Catholics I know don't accept this as true - they go along with it if their church teaches it but in their heart they know it's not true if that makes sense. In any case, as far as religion goes, I think a compass is wise just like in navigating a forest. You've got to have one to tell you if whatever you hear is right or not quite on target. My Uncle who is a priest in a monastery once told me the most important thing for a good Catholic or anyone - is to read the scriptures for myself. Christ is truly not physically supernaturally in the eucharist, but you can have the Holy Spirit in your heart and be saved that's what the communion is pointing to. The point of what Jesus did was not to spur argument over whether or not he would physically supernatually be in the eucharist. If that were true, then His death on the cross is unecessary because the Roman Catholic tradition then takes care of getting Christ into me, through the eucharist, but that was the whole reason God sent His Son, because no one is righteous enough to give a sacrament that can get Christ into my heart . I think He's much more concerned with our heart.

Answer 6

No.

His sacrifice is present in the Eucharist.

Answer 7

We are supposed to.

I had a priest once who told me that many protestants consider us cannibals because of this.

I don't really get it myself though. I'm pretty sure any laboratory tests would prove the Eucharist to be bland, factory produced wheat product.

Answer 8

Absolutely. I believe Christ is present everywhere and always. He said He would be and that is good enough for me.

Answer 9

Do you believe that all God revelation is in the Christian bible?

It doesn't matter what Catholics believe, but it does matter what you believe?

There are many references to Catholic beliefs, and even Martin Luther believed in the Catholic sacraments. Faith and works, and works meant the sacraments.

Answer 10

Yes I do...I guess mainly b/c it was drilled into my head as a child going to Catholic school.