Do Catholics see this transubstantiation of the communion elements as literal? What is meant by literal? The bread becomes human flesh, and it is alive. The wine becomes human blood, and it is still very much alive. Do Catholics believe they taste flesh and blood when they receive communion? Part of the miracle of this transubstantiation is that the appearance or accidents of bread and wine remain. Appearance or accidents means the sight, sound, feel, smell and taste of bread and wine, down to the molecular level.
How long does the Eucharist remain human flesh and blood? Once consumed, the Eucharist is digested and absorbed into the body. Traditionally, it is understood this process takes no more than 20 minutes. When it is not consumed, the Eucharist remains so long as it holds together under the appearance accidents of bread and wine.
Because it is the living body as well as blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. Do Catholics believe all communion services, in all Christian churches, produce the Eucharist? In order to confect the Eucharist, one must have the authority of a validly ordained Catholic priest. Therefore, they do not confect the Eucharist. When they bless bread and wine, it really does remain bread and wine.
Holy Communion really is just symbolic when Protestants engage in it, and most of them will tell you that. What if a Catholic says that the Eucharist is merely symbolic?
What if a Catholic says the real presence is merely spiritual and therefore not literal? The same as above applies. God is Spirit. Spiritual does not mean symbolic. It means real, but it is a higher reality than our own. The spiritual things of God, angels, and demons, are in every way more real than we are in this physical world. Their reality transcends our own. Do Catholics really believe they are eating human flesh and drinking human blood during Holy Communion?
It is the literal body and blood, along with soul and divinity, of Jesus Christ. Are Catholics cannibals when they receive communion? This is where the terms substance and accident become important. Substance means essence, or what something really is. Accident means the appearance down to the molecular level.
Because the accident appearance down the molecular level of bread and wine remain, Catholics are not guilty of cannibalism. In cannibalism, the person, or part of a person, is killed and eaten.
In Holy Communion, Jesus Christ is not killed, no part of him is dead, and what is eaten is living, and cannot be fully consumed. The human body does not transform the body of Christ into nutrients, but rather the body of Christ transforms the communicant when it is eaten.
Rather, it is a miraculous transformation. In cannibalism, one only consumes a body, not a person. The person and the soul of the victim have departed. In the Eucharist, we consume the entire person of Jesus Christ, body, blood, soul and divinity.
The accidents appearance of bread and wine remain, but the substance what it really is has changed. If a Catholic does not believe in this transubstantiation, then he is not really a Catholic.
Do Catholics believe Jesus Christ is re-killed on the altar during the mass? Christ could only die once. He did so 2, years ago on the cross. His living body and blood are transubstantiated and presented once more on the altar during the mass. Do Catholics ever pray to God? And every mass is a prayer to God. Catholics also have many forms of prayer and devotion. Some formal, some not-so-formal. Do Catholics pray to the Mary and the Saints? Yes, because prayer in itself is not worship, and death has no power over those in Christ.
Do Catholics pray to the angels? Yes, because prayer in itself is not worship. Do Catholics pray for those who have died? Yes, because we can, and we do so as an act of love for souls on their journey to heaven. The practice is heavily supported in the Bible. It is humankind that has chosen to separate itself from God and therefore causing the pain and suffering that was not in the initial plan of Creation as outlined in the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
God made everything wonderful and perfect for us, but by the sin of Adam we now suffer. Another response, and one that fits well into the first one, is that through pain and suffering we find God, we finally see the need to seek God and thereby form a closer relationship with him.
Have you ever had an experience where you were really injured and you have a lot of free time while recovering you started to read the Bible more? Chances are you have not, but that is just one example of how suffering brings people closer to God. Jesus reminds us that even though we may be suffering now it is later that we will get our reward Mt. We should not be angry with God for suffering , but use it as a chance to seek him and develop a closer relationship with him.
All the above reveals the futility of religious belief. One comes to belief either through indoctrination in youth, or later in conversion. Just imagine if the blank slate of your mind at birth could remain in that state until consciousness emerged, and your eventual beliefs were formulated by your analysis of earthly realities. You would be grounded in reality, and happier. You would face death with equanimity, a opposed to the fear Catholics and Protestants as well experience.
How can a creator God who is all powerful and benevolent have made a world in which sentient, pain and fear feeling animals have to tear each other apart to be eaten —- in order to live? Do Christians have any regard for the life and welfare of animals, based on their religion? Does God? We will have to explain to God why we killed each and every animal. God loves that ox so much that He will let you work on the Sabbath to save it…. You will know on the last day. Are you willing to bet that there is no God?
If you do, you will lose and that is not a bet you should take lightly. Just saying. Love you in Christ. Catholics are Christians. Some Old Testament Books were removed during the reformation in about A. The Mass is not a re-crucifying of Jesus, as we too believe that He died once for all. We do not worship his mother but give to her great honor and believe she can pray or intercede for our needs with her son, just as any saint in heaven can.
We do believe that Jesus literally feeds us spiritually via his body and blood in the eucharist. God bless all Christians as we work out our salvation……which is by faith, through the grace of Christ Jesus. So do Catholics believe in the Rapture? Becuase my boyfriend was raised catholic and he wants us to marry and have children and raise them as Catholic. I myself was raised in a Christian home, but I never understood Catholic religion.
I always thought that people who are Catholic were Christians. However, a lot of people seem to disagree. This is expressed by both fatherhood and motherhood, showing that he transcends the human distinction between the roles, and emphasising the intimacy between God and us, his children. And this eternal relationship of Father, Son and Spirit serves as a model for the family. Jesus also reveals that since God is Father of us, his children, and Father to his only Son, we are adopted as his children in a different sense, in that we partake in the eternal relationship of the Trinity.
We believe that holy men and women who have come before us still pray for us and aid us. We call them saints, and many of our churches are named for them. We pray to God. Along with the words of Scripture, images can illuminate the Gospel message and inspire us with the memory of saints. The Catechism of the Catholic Church is a compendium of the essential teachings of the Catholic faith. Just show up. We want to welcome you home and help you renew a relationship with Jesus Christ that will be the source of your happiness now and for all eternity!
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