how come Catholics celebrate the Eucharist (the wafer&wine) is Jesus's body & blood?

Question

It's mentioned in the Holy Bible yes but to do it "in rememberance of me" (Christ Jesus),...jesus doesn't die everytime in the Mass,read your Bibles he died O-N-C-E for all.

Answer 1

You have a very good question and I do not blame you for not understanding the context of what is said at the last supper. Many people do not. You do not understand the Catholic teaching and have misrepresented it here. We know Jesus died once but what you fail to understand is what it says in Hebrews that it is an eternal sacrifice.

Also, when you quote what Jesus said at the Last supper you fail to understand what "this" is. When Jesus says, "do this in rememberence of me" he is telling the disciples to change bread and wine into his body and blood. That is what Jesus did before he made the comment, "do this".

May I give you something to take into consideration? Meditate and ponder the following Biblical stories:

1. The Wedding Feast at Cana (John 2-1-12):
In Jesus first public miracle He changes the water contained in jars used for Jewish purification rituals into wine. Christ changes and purifies us when we receive Him in the consecrated bread and wine.
2. The Feeding of the Multitude (Mt. 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14.
In this miracle Jesus tells his disciples to give the multitude something to eat. Jesus knew the disciples did not have the means to do so and viewed the multitude with pity because “they were like sheep without a shepherd.” Jesus would later on tell Peter to feed His sheep. The ordained ministers that follow the apostles do as Christ commanded them by feeding His flock scripturally and spiritually.
He ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves, he blessed, broke, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds (Matthew 14:19).
3. TEACHING ON THE BREAD OF LIFE. (John 6:15-65)
In this miracle Jesus tells his disciples to give the multitude something to eat. Jesus knew the disciples did not have the means to do so and viewed the multitude with pity because “they were like sheep without a shepherd.” Jesus would later on tell Peter to feed His sheep. The ordained ministers that follow the apostles do as Christ commanded them by feeding His flock scripturally and spiritually.
He ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves, he blessed, broke, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds (Matthew 14:19).
4. The Passover of Our Lord. Matthew 26:26-30; Mark 14:22-26; Luke 22:14-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23:25.
In the upper room, our Lord institutes the memorial of his passion, death, and resurrection. Using the ancient Passover meal, a celebration of salvation and deliverance, Jesus ratifies the covenant of his sacrifice. Taking the bread, signifying the Messiah-to-come, and the third cup of wine, representing the blood of the Passover Lamb, Jesus declares that these symbols are now fulfilled in him. Every Mass is our Passover meal, our celebration of the salvation and deliverance that Jesus, the Messiah and Lamb of God, has won for us.
5. THE ROAD TO EMMAUS:
Luke 24:13-35 & Mark 16:12-13.
On the day of Jesus resurrection he joined up with two of his disciples walking to Emmaus. They did not recognize the Lord, "then Jesus said to them, "How foolish you are, how slow you are to believe everything the prophets said!" Jesus acted as if he was going to go beyond the city and they begged him to stay. "He sat down to eat with them, took the bread, and said the blessing; then he broke the bread and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.” Why, did Jesus' disappear at that moment? To show he was still with them in the consecrated bread that he had just blessed. Jesus Christ made his final act at the last supper and first meal on the day he rose from the dead an example of having a supernatural faith. The two disciples said, "Wasn't it like a fire burning in us when he talked to us on the road and explained the Scriptures to us? The two then explained to them [disciples] what had happened on the road, and how they had recognized the Lord when he broke the bread."


When Jesus taught us how to pray He said, “give us this day our supersubstantial bread.” (Mt 6:11 Douay-Rheims Bible) God is Spirit and His Word (Jesus Christ) became flesh. The whole Bible conveys salvation through sacrifice to reflect the ultimate and eternal sacrifice of Jesus Christ:
Abel offered a lamb to God and later John the Baptist said, “This is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world.”
Abraham was going to faithfully offer his only son when an angel of God stopped him, he sacrificed a sheep God provided.
At Passover Moses had lambs sacrificed that had to be eaten with unleavened bread.
Then the Israelites ate Manna in the desert that they did not recognize and Moses told them “This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.”
Christianity entails having a supernatural faith fed by “supersubstantial bread” (Mt 6:11 Douay-Rheims Bible) and not a mere human conviction.

Answer 2

Some people believe that the wafer and wine actually becomes the body and blood of Christ AFTER it has been eaten. But this belief has been removed from many churches. Now the Eucharist is a ceremony and a symbol of the meal and what happened to Jesus after. Much like people climb mountains or run marathons in the honor of someone who has died - this is much the same thing - just institutionalized.

Answer 3

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 God, acting through the priest, 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 4

John Chapter 6.... read a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to get an understanding of something that you know nothing about. The answer is too long to explain in this forum.

And Catholics also understand Jesus died on the cross O-N-C-E for all sin of all men for all of time. Your question, as stated, only goes to show your ignorance. A valid question if you're really looking for an answer. But it would seem you are looking more for an arguement. An answer I will give.... an arguement, no.

Answer 5

In rememberance because its to show that he died for the remission of our sins and we offer it up to him. No about that wine I don't agree (Leviticus 10:9-10,Leviticus 11:1-47,Deuteronomy 14:1-29, Proverbs 20:1,1 Timothy 4:3) And they say in any one of the new testament Matthew through John books that out came Jesus when the soldier stabbed him was blood and water.

Answer 6

not only catholics do that. Christians do it too. Christ instructed us to eat the bread and drink the wine in rememberance of him. We do it to remember the sacrifice that he made for us. the sacrifice and pain he took for a world in which his name would be cursed by thousands of people 2000 years later.
the question is, why? why would a perfect God send his own son to die for his fallen creation?
and that answer, is Love

Answer 7

Jesus said in chpt. 6 after talking about drinking His blood and eating His body "These things I say are spiritual,the flesh profits nothing".
At the Last Supper,He said "do this in REMEMBERANCE of Me."
Then he BROKE the bread(it wasn't a round host,that's what the Pagans would bake in honour of the Queen of Heaven[see Isaiah])
He died once for all......not again and again..

Answer 8

Protestants like to emphasize the word "remembrance" - they constantly remind us that Jesus said "do this in REMEMBRANCE of Me", as though that means that He was not speaking literally about His Body and Blood. They are emphasizing the wrong word. What Jesus said was "do THIS in remembrance of Me", "THIS", meaning exactly what He Himself had done a moment before, taking bread in His holy hands, and saying "THIS IS MY BODY", then taking the cup and saying "THIS IS MY BLOOD". THAT is what He commanded we do "in remembrance" of Him, not pass around paper cups of grape juice and some crackers. How many Protestant churches obey this direct command of God, by doing exactly what He commanded us to do in remembrance of Him? Or do they say, "No Lord, what you commanded us to do is just too hard to believe. We'll do something else in remembrance of you, something of our own design, and you'll just have to be satisfied with that".

When Jesus preached about eating His Body and drinking His Blood, many of His listeners, like today's Protestants, were desperately hoping that He might be speaking symbolically, so that their weak faith would not be put to the test. But Jesus dashed that hope by telling them plainly, "My flesh is REAL (not symbolic) food; My blood is REAL (not symbolic) drink. At that point many got up and walked away, and followed Him no more.

It is obvious that these people took Him to be speaking literally. Otherwise there would be no reason for such an extreme reaction on their part. If they were mistaken, if Jesus was actually speaking symbolically and they just thought He was speaking literally, then why did Jesus just sit there and sadly watch them walk away from salvation? Why didn't He just speak up and correct their misconception? The answer is obvious. He didn't correct them because they understood Him exactly as He meant to be understood - literally - and they just didn't have the faith to accept it. All Christians on earth for the next 1,500 years understood Him exactly the same way - literally. Only then, in the 16th Century, did new manmade churches begin to reject such central and traditional Christian beliefs.

Answer 9

There are so many problems with RCC doctrine it takes a whole book to describe them.

those of the church who come from this world having an idea of three Divine beings cannot be admitted into heaven,
since their thought wanders from one Divine being to another; and it is not allowable there to think three and say one.{1} Because in heaven everyone speaks from his thought, since speech there is the immediate product of the thought, or the thought speaking. Consequently, those in this world who have divided the Divine into three, and have adopted a different idea of each, and have not made that idea one and centered it in the Lord, cannot be received into heaven, because in heaven there is a sharing of all thoughts, and therefore if any one came thinking three and saying one, he would be at once found out and rejected. But let it be known that all those who have not separated what is true from what is good, or faith from love, accept in the other life, when they have been taught, the heavenly idea of the Lord, that He is the God of the universe. It is otherwise with those who have separated faith from life, that is, who have not lived according to the precepts of true faith (Heaven and Hell n.2).

Answer 10

It's just a part of the religion. The question should be...What do clergymen of all faiths do with the money they get every sunday? Does Jesus wear a Rolex and drive a Mercedes Benz?