THE EUCHARIST - How can anyone claim to “believe” in Jesus, if they deny what He taught and will not follow what He said?

[Jimmy_B]

This was settled 2,000 years ago! Why so contentious? Why so much difficulty accepting Christ in His fulness? The apostles did, and every generation since.

You appear to be satisfied with the sacred “cliff notes” of the life of Christ. There’s more to Him. Much more. But, belief begins when you drop the 'tude.

 

[Wyatt]

I love the Eucharist. I personally can’t believe that I ever became Catholic, but I’m so glad I did. I remember years ago, as a Protestant, thinking that Catholics were so weird for believing that Communion was TRULY the Body and Blood of Christ. I’ve come along way since then.

 

[JRKH]

I love the Eucharist. I personally can’t believe that I ever became Catholic, but I’m so glad I did. I remember years ago, as a Protestant, thinking that Catholics were so weird for believing that Communion was TRULY the Body and Blood of Christ. I’ve come along way since then.

Welcome Home.
It’s statements like these that really “jumpstart” my Love of Christ in the Eucharist.

Peace
James

 

[Joysong]

Your first post in this thread contained some scriptures that we as Catholics understand fully, since we have grown up with them since childhood, or obtained the grace from God to embrace them and convert.

What is completely missing is your loving kindness and patience, reflecting God’s mercy and will to call ALL people to Himself in fullness of truth.

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was a Protestant who had a good Catholic friend with whom she held a good deal of correspondence about our faith. Her stumbling block was the Eucharist. Years of training are hard to dismiss. Reflect, too, that those who have been in a cult must be sent to a deprogrammer to undo the brainwashing that the members absorbed over the years.

One doesn’t pick up the bible, read the scriptures you posted, and just accept them automatically because you say so. It often takes a lot of prayer and earnest seeking before one is able to believe and come to full faith in the Eucharist. We know Jesus promised in the beatitudes that whoever hungers and thirsts for holiness will be satisfied. Your manner is to condemn when you cite these specific scriptures and the listener doesn’t immediately sign up for RCIA. I shudder at the labels you mentally hold for these children of God, who through no fault of their own, were not born into Catholicism.

St. Elizabeth did finally convert, and we praise God for the gifts of holiness he bestowed upon her to make her a great saint! I hope you would pray to her and ask her intercession to help you be as patient as the gentleman who brought her lovingly to the faith.

 

[cazayoux]

I believe that the water is talking of our first natural birth…

What, then, do you make of this?

Acts 8
[36] And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What is to prevent my being baptized?”

Obviously the eunuch is not about to be ‘naturally born’.
He is about to be baptized in a sense different from what you suggest.

I don’t believe it’s water to just cleanse us from dirt, **it’s a symbol **and that’s what that scripture is referring to.

I see you are reading part of 1 Peter 3:21 literally for part and interpretting differently for another part.

1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Catholics agree with the entire passage, while you seem to have decided to only read the red part.

michel

 

[nsper7]

I love the Eucharist. I personally can’t believe that I ever became Catholic, but I’m so glad I did. I remember years ago, as a Protestant, thinking that Catholics were so weird for believing that Communion was TRULY the Body and Blood of Christ. I’ve come along way since then.

I have to agree with you on that. What first reeled me into Anglicanism was the Eucharist as well.The history and theology were only an added benefit.

 

[ckempston]

What, then, do you make of this?

Acts 8
[36] And as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What is to prevent my being baptized?”

Obviously the eunuch is not about to be ‘naturally born’.
He is about to be baptized in a sense different from what you suggest.

I see you are reading part of 1 Peter 3:21 literally for part and interpretting differently for another part.

Exactly. The waters of Noah are the symbol in the passage, not baptism. I have heard that claim countless times. One has to have some serious blinders on not to see that.

“this water [the water of the flood] symbolizes baptism, that now saves you”

 

[Jimmy_B]

What is completely missing is your loving kindness and patience, reflecting God’s mercy and will to call ALL people to Himself in fullness of truth.

I agree and the key word here is “truth”. All truth originates from God.

Thank you for your post.

God Bless You!

 

[Jimmy_B]

What is completely missing is your loving kindness and patience, reflecting God’s mercy and will to call ALL people to Himself in fullness of truth.

I agree and the key word here is “truth”. All truth originates from God.

Thank you for your post.

God Bless You!