Catolics, do you REALLY believe that by saying some words and blowing some smoke that bread and wine is ...?

Question

literally turned into the body and blood of Christ? Do you actually believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation?

Sorry, misspelled Catholics

Answer 1

Ooh, I tried it when I was a kid at Catholic school and it tasted exactly like human flesh and blood...I felt sick and I spat it out into my handkerchief and then I wasn't sure what to do with it so I fed it to the goldfish when I got home.

Answer 2

We, as Catholics, believe that the Eucharist is TRULY made into the body and blood of Christ, it is not just a symbol or representation. Through Him we receive His graces and separate ourselves from sin. Some exerpts from the Catechism of the Catholic Church...

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The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend."201 In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained."202 "This presence is called ‘real'—by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be ‘real' too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God and man, makes himself wholly and entirely present."203
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By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).

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The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: "Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation."

Answer 3

You bet I Do, In the old testament, the jews would sacrifice a real lamb and ate the actual lamb to forgive sins (notice that they didn't eat a "symbol" of the lamb), in the new testament, Jesus became the "lamb of God", JEsus was sacrificed at the cross and offered up his blood and flesh so we can eat of it in the holy eucharist ( God used the same Jewish custom to create the new covenant, this sacrifice is offered at the Catholic Holy Mass)

when JEsus spoke to the Jews, the Jews couldn't figure out how they could eat of his literal flesh and blood>

"I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh." John 6:51

Answer 4

Catholicism is, at heart, not much different from older pagan religions. A huge chunk of what they do is merely tradition handed down by church heads with some specific agenda, such as the indoctrination of the pagans. They took pagan traditions and made them their own in order to more easily sway them. The saints are, in practice, not very different from a pantheon of gods. Their clerical system is much akin to pagan priesthoods. They even practice idolatry in a veiled fashion. Why are they ok with this? In the Chatechism it says that the church has divine authority to change and add to biblical teachings.

...Does any of this matter? No. Protestant or Catholic (or Muslim, or Jewish, or Hindu, or any of the others), it's all about control of the masses. It's like comparing two prisons. In the end, the idea is to keep you safely locked inside.

Answer 5

I am Catholic and what you are saying it is a ritual in our religion to celebrate the Communion as Jesus did. And we don't blow smoke as you say, it is incense that it is used in the rite. It is not magic as you are trying to say here, that just because the Father say some words and that turns the wine into blood. I believe you don't believe, that's just fine. I know my religion, I love God, that it was matter to me.

Answer 6

I'm no Catholic, but I have many friends who are, and I've discussed religion with them, and they will tell you that it is not literal, but symbolic. Now, some other Catholics may not believe the same thing, but as a mojority (in my town at the very least) it is symbloic rather that literal.

Answer 7

I cannot speak for Catolics but as a Catholic, yes, I believe. So what? You don't? Then don't. What bothers you that I do? You really need to find something else to slander someone. You won't find argument from me.

Answer 8

It's canabalism! Jesus didn't take off his arm and pass it around for his disciples to eat - he gave a symbol - bread and wine - not literal body and blood!where they get that - don't know!

Answer 9

Cathaholics.

Answer 10

tradition holds communities together.