Catholics: Do you actually believe you are eating the literal body of Christ during communion?

Question

This is Catholic doctrine.

Answer 1

Yes, they do. Transsubstantiation.

Silly, innit?

Answer 2

It is ever worse than you suspect.

We believe we are consuming the literal body AND blood of Christ during the Eucharist.

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 a 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 3

Mass is the term used to describe celebration of the Eucharist.....



That the Mass commemorates and continues in a mystical way the One Eternal Sacrifice that Jesus Christ instituted in a ceremonial way at the Last Supper and consummated in a supreme manner by giving up His life on the Cross. "As often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice you shall show forth the death of the Lord till He comes" (1 Cor. 11:26).

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Adoration—Glorifying Almighty God:

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Thanksgiving—For Benefits Natural and Supernatural:

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Prayer—For Mercy and Forgiveness:

The Mass Is a Sacrifice of Expiation—Satisfaction of God's Justice.


The Eucharist—the clean oblation—is at once a sacrifice offered up to God in the Mass, the true sacrifice of the New Law, and a Sacrament of Christ's love for us unto eternal life. As a sacrifice, the Eucharist immolates in an unbloody manner Christ, who shed His sacred blood on Calvary and died on the Cross for us. As a Sacrament, it sanctifies and nourishes our souls with the Bread of Life.

Answer 4

Not just the body; we are being fed by Christ, Himself: body, blood, soul and divinity - the entire person of Christ. He commanded us to do this. It's in the bible.

Read John 6 and Luke 22:19.

God bless.

Answer 5

"Christ's presence in the Eucharist is unique in that, even though the consecrated bread and wine truly are in substance the Body and Blood of Christ, they have none of the accidents or characteristics of a human body, but only those of bread and wine."

http://www.usccb.org/dpp/realpresence.htm

Sister Steph: your 2nd and 4th links are from anti-Catholic sites.

Answer 6

I wouldn't use the term "literal". I prefer "Real".

The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

Yes. 100%

Answer 7

These people don't realize what they are doing when they have there sacred communion. When they say that they are eating the literal body of Jesus Christ, that they do away with the sacred dying on the cross by reenacting it every mass. ANd they call themselves the one true church of God!!!! Jesus is Lord, not the pope. God is the Holy Father not the pope. God have mercy on their souls!!

Answer 8

Ditto on what Father K said. Try reading these so you can understand it better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist_(Catholic_Church)
http://www.answeringcatholicism.com/catholicdoctrine/transubstantiation/transubstantiation.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05573a.htm
http://www.carm.org/catholic/transubstantiation.htm

Answer 9

sweet classy lady (that makes me feel sick to say it!)

You have NO clue what you are talking about.

Answer 10

no but its blessed by him so in a way maybe yeah