This is my last question about catholics. Do catholics think the wine is literally jesus blood at communion?

Question

And the bread is literally jesus flesh? some ppl have been answering my questions saying its not? christians do it symbolically in remembrance of what Jesus did 2000 years ago. He said drink This (the wine) it is my blood. Do this in remembrance of Me. Obviously when He said drink the wine, it was symbolic wasnt it? did he cut a vein and pour it into the glass? did he cut his arm and let them eat his flesh for the bread? ok i'm done about catholics

Answer 1

Jesus performed many miracles during His life. This was one more.

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

At communuion, Catholic priests, through the power of God, turn the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus. This is immpossible for humans to understand since it does not taste or look different after the transformation, so Catholics beleive out of faith. Jesus did not mean it to be symbolic, but litteral although he did not cut himself.

There have been a few times when the bread and wine actually, after the priest consecrated them, did not look like bread and wine but flesh amd blood.

Answer 3

It's not literal, it's symbolic. When the disciples were at the Last Supper, Jesus didn't slash Himself over a chalice and make the disciples drink, nor did he rip off a chunk of his arm and pass it around. The bread and the wine were symbolic of His body and blood, sacrificed for our atonement. Whenever a sacrifice was made in the Old Testament, God, through a tongue of fire would consume the entire thing, liquid and all. At Passover, the people had to eat the meal in a hurry and leave NOTHING behind. It either had to be consumed or destroyed in the fire.Jesus said to the disciples, "Drink ye ALL of it." And, "Eat ye ALL of it" in reference to the bread and wine so that we could take upon ourselves the responsibility that God took for the acceptance of the sacrifice. There would have been no consuming of the sacrifice had it been prepared improperly and etc., so Jesus had to teach the disciples how to perform the new covenant Passover properly so that everyone who ever partook of it would understand the magnitude of the ceremony and not eat or drink unworthily. He said that it had to be done "in remembrance of ME" so that man would never forget or discount the reason for Christ's sacrifice.

Answer 4

Okay, let's try explaining it this way. After the transubstantiation, if you take the Eucharist to a lab, you will find that it is physically still bread and wine. Physically, it has not changed, and yet according to Catholic doctrine, its essence has been transformed. Just as flesh and blood are the essence of a person, so is spirit the essence of God. In this way only is it symbolic. God becomes actually present in the Eucharist. Not physically - for God is not physical - but spiritually. This is also why having the the Body is as good as having the Blood; both are the essence of God.

Answer 5

At the Last Supper, which was in reality the Passover meal, He took bread, blessed it and gave it to His Apostles. He Said, "This is My Body" Then He took a cup of wine blessed it and said "This is my Blood which will be shed for you and for many so that sins may be forgiven". Take this bread and drink this cup. Do this in memory of Me. He changed the bread and wine into His Body and Blood. This is called transubstantiation, where a substance is changed into another and only the appearance of bread and wine remains. Jesus did not use His bodily blood and flesh. This really is Jesus. I don't think it is, I know it is. That is what faith is.

Answer 6

the catholics are taught that it, after it has been blessed by a priest, truly becomes the body and blood of Jesus Christ. It really is just symbolic. The catholicism also teaches, that the priest are the only ones, that has any kind of authority in the spiritual realm, not just in blessing the bread and wine. If this were the truth, then that would make God a respector of persons, and that is totally against scripture.

Answer 7

Every answer before this one is wrong. Catholic doctrine officially states that the bread and wine both are Jesus's body and blood (interestingly, each containing both body and blood, since formerly only priests drank the wine). The Middle Ages pseudo-Aritotelian philosophy behind this was that the "real presence" of the body and blood of Jesus gets masked by the "accidents" of blood and wine. Calling it merey symbolism is, to the Catholic Church, a heresy worthy of excommunication, and it is one of the primary differences between official Catholic doctrine and Protestant teachings (though run-of-the-mill Catholics don't necessarily believe in the official teaching on the matter).

Answer 8

No ,we do understand that it is symbolic. He did not cut his arm and say eat this, or drink my blood. At the Last Supper he turned Water into Wine. It is to remember what he gave up for us, his flesh and Blood. Remember that the Wine and bread is blessed by the Priest.

Answer 9

I hate to say this, but the answers I am seeing here are incorrect. According to Catholic doctrine, the wine and bread used during the Mass are transformed into the ACTUAL body and blood of Christ during the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. This belief in the actual physical transformation from wine to blood and bread to body is why non-catholics may not participate in communion during Mass.

Answer 10

A devout Catholic once explained it to me this way; Protestants take every word of the Bible literally, EXCEPT the part about flesh and bread/blood and wine, which they consider metaphorical. Catholics, on the other hand, consider the entire bible metaphorical, EXCEPT the blood wine/flesh bread part, which they consider literal. Go figure.