Impossible Eucharist

[santaro75]

It seems that a common theme in the Bible is that God appears in impossible ways. In the Virgin birth or the walking on water. So all these impossible things were done so that we might believe.

I believe that the Eucharist is another impossiblity that requires super human faith in God and what he said. This is partly why i am convinced that the bread and wine become Jesus. It is as big a mystery as how he turned 3 loaves into enough to feed 5000.

I guess I don’t understand why so many people reject this because of the fact that it doesn’t make human sense when most of the bible makes no human sense. I mean If you can believe that Moses over ran Egypt with frogs, then why is it so hard to believe in transubstantiation?

 

[mkw]

That was on the same line of reasoning I used.

If God could create the world just by WILLING it and could make a human man out of dirt, breathing into him life. Then believing in the Eucharistic miracle was no big deal.

The Eucharist, Mary and the Saints were easy for me to grasp. Justification and salvation are still hard for me to explain. Although I totally believe in what the church teaches.

 

[puzzleannie]

very good point, well expressed. I have also wondered why, with all the religious points of view to choose from among Christian denominations, anyone would not choose the one that says Jesus Christ is truly present in a sacramental way during 7 events described by the CC as sacraments, instead of reducing these practices to the status of “ordinances” and making them optional. Why if you could celebrate a Eucharist, in keeping with Christ’s promise that he would always be with us, and be in communion with him in that intense physical and spiritual way he promised, would you ever settle for a memorial or pale shadow of the real thing.

 

[mommy]

I went to many different Protestant churches growing up, and experiencing communion there. For many years I attended the Catholic church with my family, and didn’t participate in communion but didn’t really understand why I couldn’t, etc. Then one day last summer in church, it hit me. I never knew. When I finally understood The Eucharist, and that it truly WAS the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus, I was awestruck. I finally “got it” Our father always talked about Protestants, and do they have faith, yes, are they holy, yes, etc (all in a very positive light) but then he would say he was heartbroken because they don’t have Eucharist. When I finally understood that what it meant, and that it wasn’t just a symbol, I got so much more out of mass, and now that I’m in RCIA, I really can’t wait for Easter when I can receive it for the first time.