Eucharistic Idol Worship?

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Not believing a piece of bread is God. Never will. Just want to know what you’s believe?

Edit: I’ve come to terms with the mystery of the Eucharist, even if I don’t fully understand it. There’s no doubt Jesus is God and His Word is trustworthy. Thank you all for your patience and guidance. By the way, I’ve been baptized, confirmed and already receiven the Body and Blood. I just had major doubts after some strange experiences, but with the help of my priest it can be explained.

I’m sorry.
 
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A piece of bread is not God. The Eucharist is God.

Why is believing He can take on the appearance of bread so hard to believe when you believe He humbled Himself by becoming human?
 
I’m a little confused. Your profile says “Catholic Soon” under religion. Why are you becoming Catholic if you don’t believe in the Eucharist?
 
We don’t believe that a piece of bread is God, we believe that the Eucharist is God and only has the appearance of bread. Its substance is not bread.
 
I believe in God and I love Christians. Are you calling me terrible? I just find myself seeing weird things in the Eucharist.
 
Eyes. I’ve journaled it and plan to bring my journal to my priest. It’s been a great stumbling block for a religion that saved my life so I’m on shaky ground.
 
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Eyes. I’ve journaled it and plan to bring my journal to my priest. It’s been a great stumbling block for a religion that saved my life so I’m on shaky ground.
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That sounds like an excellent idea. Talk to your priest.
 
I heard that Jesus said something:
unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.
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I guess we better find that flesh and blood right now or we are out of luck… It is “Hell, here we come” if we can’t find his flesh and blood to eat and drink…

Help, anyone!!!
Can you help us find his flesh and blood before it is too late?
 
If you are asking what Catholics believe about the Eucharist, I think Pope Paul VI expressed it well when he wrote:
  1. … We believe that as the bread and wine consecrated by the Lord at the Last Supper were changed into His body and His blood which were to be offered for us on the cross, likewise the bread and wine consecrated by the [Catholic] priest are changed into the body and blood of Christ enthroned gloriously in heaven, and we believe that the mysterious presence of the Lord, under what continues to appear to our senses as before, is a true, real and substantial presence.(35)
  2. Christ cannot be thus present in this sacrament except by the change into His body of the reality itself of the bread and the change into His blood of the reality itself of the wine, leaving unchanged only the properties of the bread and wine which our senses perceive. This mysterious change is very appropriately called by the Church transubstantiation. Every theological explanation which seeks some understanding of this mystery must, in order to be in accord with Catholic faith, maintain that in the reality itself, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the Consecration, so that it is the adorable body and blood of the Lord Jesus that from then on are really before us under the sacramental species of bread and wine,(36) as the Lord willed it, in order to give Himself to us as food and to associate us with the unity of His Mystical Body.(37)
  3. The unique and indivisible existence of the Lord glorious in heaven is not multiplied, but is rendered present by the sacrament in the many places on earth where Mass is celebrated. And this existence remains present, after the sacrifice, in the Blessed Sacrament which is, in the tabernacle, the living heart of each of our churches. And it is our very sweet duty to honor and adore in the blessed Host which our eyes see, the Incarnate Word whom they cannot see, and who, without leaving heaven, is made present before us. (source: Pope Paul VI’s apostolic letter of 30 Jun 1968, Credo of the People of God, 24-26)
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Consider that Jesus Christ has the ability to change one thing into another thing, such as when he changed water into wine (John 2) and he can prevent people’s senses from recognizing what is really before them, as when he prevented his disciples from recognizing him as he walked and talked with them on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24) or when people “entertained angels unawares.” (Hebrews 13:2)
 
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John_Martin said:
Help, anyone!!!
Can you help us find his flesh and blood before it is too late?
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No one else answered… Only one person held out his hand to me as I lay dying and said, “here! Take this and eat it now! And drink this while you still have enough strength to swallow!”

I did.
"What did you give me? "
"My body, and in the cup, my blood; you are now joined in my death and resurrection - my body and blood in you, which my Father raises to life always, even now as you contain me.
 
Oh THANK YOU for posting the Credo of the People of God. That’s the day I was baptized & confirmed. ❤️ Sending you loads of :hugs:.
 
Btw, here’s the footnotes for the quotation:
  1. Cf. Dz.-Sch. 1651.
  2. Cf. Dz.-Sch. 1642, 1651-1654; Paul VI, Enc. Mysterium Fidei.
  3. Cf. S. Th., 111, 73, 3.
  4. Cf. 1 Jn. 3:2; Dz.-Sch. 1000.
 
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Eyes. I’ve journaled it and plan to bring my journal to my priest. It’s been a great stumbling block for a religion that saved my life so I’m on shaky ground.
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If you are seeing things you should also seek medical advice.
 
The Jews were shocked to think that Jesus claimed to be God. For God would never lower himself to appear in the form of a man. He must be a blaspheemer and be stoned.

Many protestants now say God would never lower himself to appear in the form of bread and wine. But God can do all things. He desired to be with us til the end of time. He does that through his body, blood, soul and divinity under the form of bread and wine.
 
I’m sorry did you say you saw eyes, when you went to take the Eucharist? Like eyes, eyes… like eyes on the plate or eyes in the actual bread/body of Christ?

Or did you mean you saw eyes on you, like everyone in the church had their eyes on you, like looking at you as if they were staring at you, watching you, judging you?

That would be weird and confusing, if that’s what you said… 😦
 
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