How is it possible that Jesus gave his body to the Disciples at the last supper?

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Not strictly speaking. That’s closer to the Zwinglian view. Lutherans believe what could be called a type of real presence, but not the same way Catholics do. But yeah, it is a Protestant belief, but one of many.
 
Yes, I realize Protestants are across the board regarding the Real Presence.
 
David_Catholic said:
If you think the Eucharist is symbolic, stop calling yourself Catholic
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So YOU would JUDGE another Catholic because they may have written something which you disagree with…

I’ve never known any catholic or anyone from any religion for that matter, trying to discourage another from a belief… Not once in 47 years…
 
ThomasMT said:
If you have joined CAF to preach heresy, please do not do so as a wolf in sheeps clothing by listing your religion as “Roman Catholic.”
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No one is preaching or trying to be a wolf. Once again another person ready to judge others because they wrote something you may not have disagreed with…

The less a say the better regarding your insult …Where was I preaching ?
 
Ha ha! The old canard “the flesh counts for nothing” = Christ counts for nothing, as they twist it. Those who embrace neo-Christianity or European Christianity 2.0 must realize that when they twist scripture, it may end up around their neck.

So wrote Saint Peter, so let it be.
 
Wow … Says it all really…

No person who loves God would call another person that. Grow up.
 
Yeah, using the word scum, not cool here for this discussion.
 
Whoa there! Love your neighbor as yourself. Let’s help each other grow in Christ, no need for such hatred!
 
I am catholic , born and baptised from birth. But please carry on your insults…

By the way I would never look at any other religion in such a poor manner as you do.
 
Fill1sHeart said:
The whole context of the Last Supper is symbolic. We do not partake of Jesus by physically eating His body. “The flesh counts for nothing”
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This is incompatible with the Catholic faith.
The Church teaches us that the presence of Jesus on the Eucharist is real.
It is wholy his body, blood, soul, and divinity.
 
It is 100% proper to correct a poster when they are wrong about Catholic teaching. Transubstantiation is NOT a matter of “opinion.”
 
If I am wrong then I am sorry. But there is no need for others to judge one another.

I go to church every week and never miss any obligation day. We are supposed to help one another but I see now this forum may not be the case sadly.

God bless and I will not post on here again.
 
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Also Jesus knew exactly what was going to happen, and His Apostles and Disciples would not fully have understood until after the Resurrection.
 
Fill1sHeart said:
If I am wrong then I am sorry. But there is no need for others to judge one another.

I go to church every week and never miss any obligation day. Ally instead of helping one another I see On this forum that may not be the case sadly.
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I am not judging you.
I am judging the erroneous belief that the Eucharist is merely a symbol.

It is not. It is real and substantial.
 
theorangeandblue said:
The bread stayed bread at the last supper. Jesus meant it figuratively not literally.
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Not true, although how it takes place is very difficult to understand. Pope Benedict made this point eloquently in several places, but I think this one speaks to the OP’s question the most directly.
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These very gestures, in the Supper with which Jesus takes leave of his followers, acquire a completely new depth. He gives a visible sign of the welcome to the banquet in which God gives himself. Jesus offers and communicates himself in the bread and in the wine.

But how can all this happen? How can Jesus give himself at that moment? Jesus knows that his life is about to be taken from him in the torture of the cross, the capital punishment of slaves, which Cicero described as mors turpissima crucis [a most cruel and disgraceful death].

With the gift of the bread and of the wine that he offers at the Last Supper, Jesus anticipates his death and his Resurrection, bringing about what he had said in his Good Shepherd Discourse: “I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father” (Jn 10:17-18).

He therefore offers in anticipation the life that will be taken from him and in this way transforms his violent death into a free act of giving himself for others and to others. The violence he suffered is transformed into an active, free and redemptive sacrifice.

Once again, in prayer, begun in accordance with the ritual forms of the Biblical tradition, Jesus shows his identity and his determination to fulfil his mission of total love to the very end, and of offering in obedience to the Father’s will. The profound originality of the gift of himself to his followers, through the Eucharistic memorial, is the culmination of the prayer that distinguishes his farewell supper with his own.

In contemplating Jesus’ actions and words on that night, we see clearly that it is in this close and constant relationship with the Father that he carries out his act of bequeathing to his followers and to each one of us the sacrament of love, the “Sacramentum caritatis ”.

The words: “Do this in remembrance of me” (1 Cor 11:24, 25), ring out twice in the Upper Room. With the gift of himself he celebrates his Pasch, becoming the true Lamb that brings the whole of the ancient worship to fulfilment. For this reason St Paul, speaking to the Christians of Corinth, says: “Christ [our Pasch], our Paschal Lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival… with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Cor 5:7-8).
General Audience, Jan. 11, 2012
http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2012/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20120111.html
 
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He knew his kingdom was heaven. He gave us His Body and Blood at the last supper to sustain us.
The Holy Ghost lives inside you. When you receiveJesus into your heart it enhances your life as a Catholic because He lives in you. The Holy Trinity works as one.
 
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