For the Catholics: If the wine (or grape juice) and bread served during the eucharist?

Question

Actually becomes the blood and body of Christ, then why do they not taste like blood and flesh (meat)?

Wine and host...you eat the host? Ewwww...

Sorry if I angered you, Doug. The host comment was uncalled for. I apologize.

Question:
Do the children drink wine?

Answer 1

And how would you know WHAT Jesus' resurrected and glorified flesh and blood actually tastes like?

Were you there when the risen Christ walked the earth ... and did you bite him?

We're not partaking of dead flesh and blood. We're receiving the risen Christ, alive and glorious ... body, blood, soul, and divinity ... in the precise form that Jesus prescribed, for the purpose of our salvation.

Why would anyone expect the experience to be mundane, and limited only to the natural realm?

And Catholics don't use grape juice. We always go first class. We use very good quality wine, with a dash of water added, just as Jesus did ... along with pure, unadulterated wheat flour, for the host.

And for Elvee ... consuming blood WAS prohibited under in the old covenant ... but Jesus gave us the new covenant in his blood, and he told us to drink it., so it can't possibly be a sin. You'll find all that in the bible.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It is a spiritual truth that the wine (NEVER grape juice in a Catholic Mass) and bread become the Blood and Body of our Savior. They continue to appear as the physical forms of bread and wine, but that's not what they are.

Most parishes do not have the funding to purchase enough wine for everybody who comes to Mass, so only a little wine is used and that which is consecrated is consumed only by the priest(s), deacons, acolytes and lectors. Everyone else receives only the Body of Christ, but that's okay, because either Species presents the fullness of the Lord. Consequently, children rarely consume the Most Precious Blood, but even when they do, it's neither harmful nor illegal because it's been transubstantiated.

Answer 4

Catholic theologians differentiate between essence and accidence. That's one of the core doctrines of the Eucharist. The essence or substance of the Eucharist is transubstantianted - the accidentals remain bread and wine.

Answer 5

Sometimes they actually do get qualities of flesh and blood. Most of the time they are just transubstantiated.

Answer 6

Catholics really take the cake when it comes to believing in silly things, don't they? What makes it extra-stupid is that God made laws strictly forbidding the consumption of blood, so this whole transubstantiation thing would be considered sinning.

Answer 7

it is a sacrament, a grace, catholic eucharist is wine and the host , not grape juice and bread.

Answer 8

Because it isn't physically the Body and Blood of Christ. It is in its essence.

Answer 9

Because they are symbolic of the flesh and blood , thats the bottom line

Answer 10

Speaking of wine....
*Drink*