John 6:66

[whatistruth]

Very true, and may I also add the countless Eucharistic miracles, where the host actually appears as human flesh and blood such as the 8th century miracle of Lanciano, the body and blood is still totally incorrupt to this day, heres the link for anyone interested: therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/lanciano.html

I wish protestants would respond to this thread by researching information like you just showed. They are so afraid of history and what they may find because they are scared of the Truth. The Eucharist created Western Civilization and they do not even know how and why. The Eucharist is the sacrament of unity and they do not even care, why? how is this madness possible? protestants love scriptures. If they participated in the Eucharist they will see more of God in them.

whatistruth

 

[Melkite_Sword]

Good point. Thanks! This backs up the date even further to one year (Passover to Passover). If I misspeak, please let me know.

Yup , so now what we have is Jesus telling us to “eat my flesh and drink my blood, for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink” (John 6:54-55) on the passover, the next passover, at the last supper the apostles come to a full realisation of what was said in Capernaum a year earlier in John 6, when Jesus says, in Matt 26:26-28 “Take this all of you, this is my body… Drink this all of you this is my blood”. They also come to fully realise what was said or predicted about Judas’ betrayal in John 6:64, 70-71 just before the betrayal in Matt 26:23-25. I hope you understand my point.

Peace and God bless

 

[Hunho]

A major problem I have with the Catholic interpretation of John 6 comes from the following verses.

(John 6:51; John 6:54; John 6:58)

If Jesus is speaking about transubstantiation, then each of these verses is a promise that simply eating the Eucharist is sufficient for eternal life. He puts no qualifications on them. So if anyone, whether they are Christian or not, goes up and receives the Eucharist, licitly or not, at a Catholic mass he would have eternal life. If Jesus is speaking figuratively in these verses, why not the rest?
I hold a receptionist view myself, that whoever receives with faith truly receives Jesus in the sacrament. This is not a novel view. Ephrem the Syrian indicated that those who did not receive in faith only received plain bread.

Saint Paul isn’t willing to let the faithful off that easily. In 1 Corintheans 11:27-29 he says “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.” Pope John Paul II, in Redemptor hominis (20) links that self-examination with confession and penance.