Just sounds kind of weird hearing a hundred people chant that.
2007-10-11 16:21:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Drinking flesh must be.... chunky...
2007-10-11 16:24:42 · answer #1 · answered by Ũniνέгsäl Рдnтsthέisт™ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is the about Eurcharist. During the Mass, Catholics believe the bread and wine become the real Body and Blood of Christ. Because of this, some accuse Catholics of practicing cannalbolism. However, here is the difference. If one were to eat and drink the flesh and blood of another human, it would be done under the appearance and "form" of human flesh and blood. When a Catholic eats and drinks the flesh and blood of Christ, it is done under the appearance and "form" of bread and wine. Chemical analysis still shows it to be bread and wine. However, the bread and wine are still considered SUBSTANTIALLY the real Body and Blood of Christ. Thus it becomes norishment for both the body; and especially, spiritually the soul. The presence of Christ in the Eucharist is NOT considered symbolic. However, it is both a reality and a SIGN of a spiritual Realty. It is done because Christ commanded it as a means of acquiring spiritual food in a manner consistent with our human need for food.
2007-10-11 16:50:53 · answer #2 · answered by gismoII 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus was speaking of symbolically eating his flesh and symbolically drinking his blood then when you look at verse 51 which says..."The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which I give so that the world may live." What flesh did Jesus give so that the world may live? It's His flesh isn't it? If that's the case then to consider eating His flesh and His blood as symbolic means that the flesh that Jesus gave so that the world may live was only His symbolic flesh!! He didn't literally die on the cross! This, of course, is absurd. Therefore if you believe that Jesus speaks literrally that the flesh He gave up for the world to be His literal flesh (His Body), the you MUST accept that the bread we must eat and the wine we must drink as being literally His Body and Blood. Otherwise you are making no sense out of Jesus' words. God Bless Robin
2016-04-08 04:24:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, that's what catholics believe. Through the magical power of transubstantiation, the communion wafer and wine turn into the literal flesh and blood of Jesus.
2007-10-11 16:31:45 · answer #4 · answered by nobody important 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Meaning Jesus's flesh and blood, the bread and wine. It is a saying to go with communion.
2007-10-11 16:33:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a Catholic but I assume they are simply referring to the act of Eucharist.
2007-10-11 16:29:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no such Psalm that says anything like your quote.
I also presume you meant to say - eat his flesh.
2007-10-11 16:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by cheir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this catholic bashing day?
They do recite the bible verses where Jesus talks about this but they don't have anything in their service that's quite that vampiric.
2007-10-11 16:26:04 · answer #8 · answered by Dave P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And Catholics care that you think it's weird why?
2007-10-11 16:25:19 · answer #9 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no it sounds like vampirism(well assuming its a word and yes I am too lazy to use check spelling).
2007-10-11 16:23:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋