Do Catholics really believe that the bread (host) turns into Jesus' flesh when they swallow it?

Question

Or do most of them think it's just symbolic? If it really turns into flesh, would it turn back into bread if you got sick and vomitted it up?

Answer 1

A better question would be 'how many of those things do you have to eat before you've eaten a whole Jesus?'

Answer 2

definite, basically via fact the early Christians believed that the Holy Eucharist is the authentic physique & Blood of Jesus. it relatively is not a symbolic presence of Jesus, and that's a chilly sacrifice. Jesus defined this to His disciples which many did no longer seem to understand Him aside from the 12 Apostles who remained. while He advised the disciples that they could desire to eat of the flesh and drink of the blood of the Son of guy many have been thinking Him as a cannibal. Then on the final Supper He famous to His Apostles that the bread & wine is His physique & Blood. that's how transubstantiation works, the Bishop or Priest is the ambassador of Jesus reacting the final Supper which Jesus shared together with his Apostles. The Holy Spirit which connects ourselves with the Divinity of God helps the father to deliver the Spirit of the essence of His Son into the substance of the host it relatively is the bread & wine/water. At communion as quickly as we get carry of the Holy Eucharist we are surely receiving the Spirit of the Son (Jesus) into ourselves interior the process the host. I could point out that there as quickly as became right into a miracle in a Catholic church which while a priest became into doing this the bread actually became flesh and the wine/water became blood. there have been tests carried out and it became out that that's certainly human and what's thrilling is that even until eventually on the present time it keeps to be clean and unspoiled, and the blood type is AB. i'm no longer kidding it relatively is the miracle of the Holy Eucharist of Lanciano.

Answer 3

I don't know what the average Catholic on the street privately thinks, but Catholicism teaches that the bread and wine really, miraculously become Christ's Body and Blood. This occurs, not when it is swallowed, but when the priest says "This is my Body" ... "This is my blood".

The physical reality doesn't change, so if you threw it up, it would still look like bread. Pope Pius V's bull De Defectibus states that: "If anyone vomits the Eucharist, the vomit is to be gathered up and disposed of in some decent place.".

Answer 4

Jesus said "I am the bread that comes down from Heaven. Anybody who eats this bread will live forever and the bread that I shall give is my flesh for the life of the world"

Notice he did not say came down from Heaven but---comes down from Heaven---he does this at every Mass to feed his children.

People then could not swallow (no pun intended) what he said and so they left him by the thousands---he did not run after them saying I was only kidding--it's only a metephor---he let them go because it is the truth. He is the Truth, and the Life. In this world when we eat food it becomes a part of us but, with Jesus' body and blood---when we consume that---we become part of him. He is alive and in Heaven---we do not have to die but we are changed in the twinkling of an eye. St. Paul even says something like this. "Behold, I tell you a great mystery, not all of us standing here will fall asleep (speaking of death) some of us will be changed in the twinkling of an eye".---This is the Catholic who Jesus wants us to remain with him always---check out the last couple of paragraphs in John---the same as Joseph in the Old Testament who says of his younger brother Benjamin---he wants him to stay with him while his other brothers go. Benjamin has the same Mother as Joseph and the Catholics have the same Mother as Jesus. We love our Mother Mary. No other denomination has the devotion to Mary as us Catholics.

Reading Scripture is one thing but, understanding it is so much better.

Answer 5

It becomes the Body and Blood of Christ when the priest performs the consecration, not when we swallow it.

In John, chapter 6 we are taught that Christ literally meant to give us His flesh to consume.

While it is truly His body and blood, the Host remains under the appearance of bread and wine. If you threw up, it would still be the Body and Blood of Christ, and still under the appearance of (partially digested) bread and wine.

Answer 6

Kaldea, you said: "I wish people would learn about the religion before asking stupid questions"

I totally agree with that. But maybe you should learn about the religion before giving stupid answers. It goes both ways.

There is nothing symbolic about holy communion in the Catholic Church. It is truly the flesh and blood of Christ as stated in the book of John, chapter 6.

Answer 7

It is not symbolic. Jesus commanded us when He said "If you do not eat my flesh and drink my blood, you will not have life withing you."

When the priest consecrates the host, it then becomes the Body of Christ under the form of bread. If you were to drop it, or vomit it back up, then it would no longer be the Body of Jesus: it would only be bread.

Answer 8

No, we believe the bread becomes the Body of Christ before we swallow it. It becomes the Body of Christ during the consecration part of Mass.

The bread still looks, smells, tastes, and feels like bread, but in reality, it is the Body of Christ. it is Jesus Christ.

It is called transubstantiation.

Answer 9

lol no when it was jesuses last supper he had a meal and said take this in rememberance of me and he split BREAD into peices and they all ate it together then he said this is my blood and they all sipped WINE its not actualy blood and flesh it is symbolic so its kinda in rememberance of him

Answer 10

Honestly, they are so blind they do not even know the most simplest teaching of the Catholic Church, or the Bible.

Places like this are bringing to light their false doctrines, and people in that Church are learning the true Gospel.

Not only is it wrong to say the bread turns into Jesus Flesh, it is not Biblical

Answer 11

To my knowledge, they believe it is the literal flesh and blood of Christ the moment it's consecrated by the priest. That explains why they make sure the host doesn't fall on the ground and no wine is spilt. Now, as far as throwing up, I don't know how they handle that. Good question.