Eucharist

[Renarax]

If you were to explain to someone why Catholics go to Sunday (or weekday) mass and receive communion how would you put it? I ask because many people my age think mass is boring. And while I’m not christian just yet, I still find mass and more, receiving the Eucharist to be fascinating.
Here’s how I would try to put it:

Catholics receive the Eucharist because it is a spiritual ‘TONIC’ of some sort. When you partake of the blood and body of the Christ, the divinity and blessings of the lord are with you for the rest of the day (or week) and you share in a part of the Christ . . . . Is this enough? I don’t feel it is. Please add on.

 

[Ad_Orientem]

We go because we love God and want to worship him in the best way possible and in the way he commanded. We cannot give him greater worship than the perfect sacrifice of his Divine Son. And yes, the Eucharist, the bread of angels, the medicine of immortality.

 

[ccmcmg]

If you were to explain to someone why Catholics go to Sunday (or weekday) mass and receive communion how would you put it? I ask because many people my age think mass is boring. And while I’m not christian just yet, I still find mass and more, receiving the Eucharist to be fascinating.
Here’s how I would try to put it:

Catholics receive the Eucharist because it is a spiritual ‘TONIC’ of some sort. When you partake of the blood and body of the Christ, the divinity and blessings of the lord are with you for the rest of the day (or week) and you share in a part of the Christ . . . . Is this enough? I don’t feel it is. Please add on.

Why? Because God commanded us to keep the Sabbath Holy.

I receive the Eucharist because Jesus commanded “Take My Body and eat It.” Jesus is actually physically present in me, just as I am sitting next to a friend or my husband. Why wouldn’t you want that?

For me, personally, Communion is the high point of Mass for me. Maybe it’s because I’m selfish, and the ‘receiving’ of the Body of Christ is more important to me than giving to Him. But maybe that’s the way it is supposed to be. No matter how much we worship, honor, praise, thank, Him, He will always give us infinitely more than we give Him, more than we deserve! I missed part of the beginning of Mass once, though, and had always thought myself ‘Liturgy of the Eucharist’ centered; but missing the Liturgy of the Word made me feel almost as empty.

Songs/Hymns: Anytime
Reading the Bible: anytime
Thanking, praising, worshiping God: anytime
Receiving the Body and Blood of Christ our Lord and Savior: only during Mass (or the rare Communion service)

Mass can be boring, if you make it about ‘you’. When I started making Mass an hour of prayer, of honoring and worshipping God, it got a LOT less boring. When I realized I wasn’t there to be entertained, but to give to God, to receive from God, it changed Mass for me greatly. That attitude has also helped me during those times when I’m upset, annoyed, distracted, at Mass. When I look at all the hours of my life, and God has asked me for 1/7th of it to honor Him, why should I do any less? During moments like the Gloria, or Lamb of God, I ‘feel’ or think about all the Angels and Saints in Heaven joining us in song and prayer. What a choir that is!!

And, sadly, Mass (or worship services for Protestants) is sometimes the only hour that someone thinks about God. However, on the bright side, those people at church on Sunday are at least there, and thinking about God one more than hour than they would have if they weren’t there. (Two sides of the same coin; different viewpoints)

 

[Peregrinans]

This website helped me understand better: Penace thru Eucharist

 

[808Catholic]

If you were to explain to someone why Catholics go to Sunday (or weekday) mass and receive communion how would you put it? I ask because many people my age think mass is boring. And while I’m not christian just yet, I still find mass and more, receiving the Eucharist to be fascinating.
Here’s how I would try to put it:

Catholics receive the Eucharist because it is a spiritual ‘TONIC’ of some sort. When you partake of the blood and body of the Christ, the divinity and blessings of the lord are with you for the rest of the day (or week) and you share in a part of the Christ . . . . Is this enough? I don’t feel it is. Please add on.

Not sure of your age or your education/initiation into the Catholic faith so it’s hard to judge how to answer your question. Putting myself in a hypothetical situation where I might be speaking to someone not at all familiar with Christianity or the Catholic Church, I might explain it like this.

If you can imagine the most perfect friend in the world, what would you do for this friend? Would you live your life as an example for that friend so that your friend will have peace and happiness forever? Would you give your friend every bit of knowledge you could so your friend could make the right decisions throughout his life? Would you even offer up your life in exchange for your friend’s future? In sacrificing yourself, you also save all your friend’s friends. That’s Jesus; He’s our best friend and most importantly Our Savior.

During the Mass, we are brought back in mind and spirit to a night when Jesus told us the greatest truth and instructed us how to remember Him and His Sacrifice for all time. In the moment when bread and wine is changed to the Body and Blood of Christ, we are with Him as closely as we’ll ever be on earth. His Spirit is always with us but we can now be one with Christ physically!

Your Best Friend is Jesus Christ and you can be with Him every day of your life through the Eucharist; that’s Heaven on earth! If you know the Lord’s Prayer (aka the Our Father), contemplate each line. You’ll see what I’m talking about.

May God guide your mind, heart, and soul to true believe in the One Lord.