2007-06-07 10:58:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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.
By the way, Lutherans and many Anglicans also believe in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Echarist.
With love in Christ.
2007-06-09 17:49:48 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Catholics drink the sacramental blood of Christ, and enjoy doing so, because Christ commanded it, and because it gives eternal life. Wine is used in the sacrament, and is changed sacramentally, but physically it retains the characteristics of wine. Therefore the 'vintage' of whatever wine was used - and the characteristics of the vintage - remains.
2007-06-07 13:19:02 · answer #2 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Take this all of you and drink of it...."
2007-06-10 13:26:36 · answer #3 · answered by James O 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋