Just Can't get a Protestant to Understand---

[concretecamper]

Well it seems that it is normal for protestants to dismiss the Bible alltogether when it suits them. They will grab a few verses and make them say what they want to say but when Jesus repeats over and over that His flesh and blood are food indeed and that it is necessary for us to eat it so that we may have life in us.
THAT is a simbol… Go figure.

Remember St. Peter’s words, that some would twist the words of the Bible to their own destruction.
Not to mention St. Paul’s words on eating and drinking judgement on ourselves by eating and drinking the Eucharist unworthily. That even some were stricken with sickness and had died because of it.
A simbol cannot do THAT Can it?

So many Martirs have given their lives to protect the Eucharist from defilement.

Like St. Tarcisius, Martyr Of The Eucharist

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Yep…it is the cafeteria mentality that needs correction. Also, this “personal relationship” often is corrupted into “I” defining the relationship between God and myself rather than entering into communion with Him the way He wants.

 

[Peter_J]

I rejoice and invite all Christians to come with me to Mass; most are quite humbled by the solemnity. The chanting of the psalm, the readings from the Bible and homily are easily digested by Protestants [meaning any denomination that does not use the historic Mass]. What follows can be a little uncomfortable for those unaccustomed to the liturgy. Let’s be honest, the ceremonies/ rituals [bowing, incense, elevation, bells, kneeling] can be a bit awkward to those who interact with God in praise, hymns, sermons.

The Real Presence is there whether the individual understand or acknowledge.

Not to be belligerent, but do you mean Catholic Mass or Lutheran Mass?

 

[batman1973]

Not to be belligerent, but do you mean Catholic Mass or Lutheran Mass?

Orthodox. That way we can get all the smells and bells.:thumbsup:

 

[EvangelCatholic]

Not to be belligerent, but do you mean Catholic Mass or Lutheran Mass?

Lutheran in the ELCA where all baptized Christians who experience Christ in worship and confess the apostolic faith are invited to holy Communion; how we understand and articulate it is secondary.

 

[whowhatwhen]

well this discussion has been going on from the first century – when the church fathers – believed that the

1. earth was flat,
   2 that the earth stood still and the planets rotated around the earth.
2. that the earth was the center of the universe
3. and transsubstanstation was a mystical fact of the dynamics of spiritual rules
4. and issiac nution had not discovered gravity yet
   6.7.8.9.10

there for – the "real presence wust be a fact-- because that is what catholics are taught.

and the symbolic presence must be fact and false becasue the catholics got here first

and finally it dosen’t matter if there is any anointing, or spiritual presence-- or holy Spirit presence-- during a communion service–

because what ever each individual has been taught – is the apparent fact

even thou each group/individuual has consumed the communion- in the effort two identify

with the request that scripture says-- do this in memory of me when you get together – in my memory and to celebrate as my body

and finally-- if there was a actual presence of the holy Spirit /God at a communion service – it would probably “scare” everyone–

except the Pentecostals of course