If you honestly believe in transubstantiation…that Christ literally is in the bread and wine…then throwing it away after the meeting is indeed sacrilege. I understand this. However, in my view doing so is coming very close to idol worship. (and yes, I KNOW that ‘coming close to’ is NOT actually getting there.) You are giving the symbol more respect and worship than you give to Christ Himself.
Your question did make me think about it…and here’s what I think.You need to remember that we do NOT believe in the literal presence of God in the bread and water/wine. Those things are symbols. Very powerful ones, certainly, but symbols none the less. So…when the sacrament is done; when everyone who wants to has partaken…it’s purpose is done; let it serve no other purpose. For me, treating that bread in any other manner than ‘throwing it away’ (returning it to the earth, so to speak) would be sacrilege. If it is treated in a special way, it is being worshiped for itself. If you use it for another purpose–like cooking with it, for instance–you are being disrespectful of the symbology.
If that were the case I would not be a Catholic. I could idolize nothing accept Jesus. I take in Christ body soul and divinity at Mass. I am fed spiritually. My eyes were first opened at the breaking of the bread, it led me to full communion. I was not telling you, you must believe. Jesus allowed many of his disciples to leave Him because it was to hard for them to believe as well.
I am merely pointing out that it was the LDS church hundreds of years later that could not accept this, in line with many Protestant churches. What I know most is how it has changed my whole life. How it has brought me so close to Jesus and transformed my life in a way that it is no longer my life but His. I was pointing out that it is the LDS Church that made the changes other than what Christ has taught, what the Church has always taught. Thomas could not believe until he touched, I could not believe fully until I ate the food that Christ Himself gives. Himself in so many glorious ways . People wonder if miracles are true. They are, and this is the miracle that He left His Church. By remembering His Passion, we remember what He did for us.
*Before he was given up to death, a death he freely accepted, he took bread and gave you thanks. He broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said:
Take this, all of you, and eat it: this is my Body which will be given up for you.
When supper was ended, he took the cup. Again he gave you thanks and praise, gave the cup to his disciples, and said:
Take this, all of you, and drink from it; this is the cup of my Blood, the Blood of the New and Everlasting Covenant. It will be shed for you and for all men so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.
*This is exactly what we do at Mass……exactly what Jesus asked us to do ***
WHere did the Apostles have personal revelation? They were being Led by Jesus CHrist throught he Holy SPirit the same way that the Pope and Bishops etc are today.