Eucharist is OK

[tgm21234]

Some one Googled that they can’t understand how some Catholics are vegans, but it’s ok to eat the Body of Christ in the Eucharist.

 

[CatholicCid]

At the consecration, the substance changes (into the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus), but the accidents (of bread) remain. Therefore, physically, it’s appearance is still bread and it retains the properties of bread (non-meat-ness, I suppose).

 

[Jesness]

Some one Googled that they can’t understand how some Catholics are vegans, but it’s ok to eat the Body of Christ in the Eucharist.

I’m sorry, but I find this hilarious… Christians can even be called to lay down their life for the faith if necessary, and people are going to quibile about the hypocricy of a vegan taking the Eucharist?! XD

 

[CatholicCid]

I’m sorry, but I find this hilarious… Christians can even be called to lay down their life for the faith if necessary, and people are going to quibile about the hypocricy of a vegan taking the Eucharist?! XD

Most accounts generally refer to a similar common dispute within the early Church. Pagans would accuse Christians of cannibalism, which, at the same time, shows the early belief in the True Presence.

Theophilus of Antioch is quoted as writing, “For though yourself prudent, you endure fools gladly. Otherwise you would not have been moved by senseless men to yield yourself to empty words and to give credit to the prevalent rumor wherewith godless lips falsely accuse us, who are worshipers of God and are called Christians, . . . that we eat human flesh.”
What Theophilus was writing about was the pagan claim that Christians were cannibals because they claimed to eat their God. Well, Christians did claim that (because they understood John 6 literally), but the pagans, not knowing that the Presence of Christ in the Eucharist is sacramental but not corporeal in the normal physical sense, thought that Christians were eating flesh indistinguishable from the flesh hanging from their own bones. Ironically, the pagan charge of cannibalism tends to prove, rather than disprove, the Catholic understanding of John 6.

catholic.com/thisrock/1997/9704drag.asp

In direct relation to the thread: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=139046

 

[hilde_the_dog]

The consecrated host become the body of Christ - not the accidents of the body of Christ. Note : after consecration a consecrated host looks the same as an unconsecrated. The essence has changed not the physical proerties of taste, feel, smell etc.

 

[po18guy]

Some one Googled that they can’t understand how some Catholics are vegans, but it’s ok to eat the Body of Christ in the Eucharist.

Jesus commanded the 72: “Eat whatever is placed before you”. He also rather famously said “Take. Eat. This is My Body”.