Why don't Catholics partipate in the Church outside of Mass?

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PRmerger said:
You were poorly catechized, Yendis.

I doubt that you could even answer a simple question, without looking it up: where in the Mass is Scripture said?

We consume his Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.* All *of Him. :highprayer:
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Try me. Ask a question. 🙂

It’s still cannibalism. :eek:
 
MissRose73 said:
With my current work schedule, it is hard to participate in most church activities especially if they are on Sunday mornings or weekday mornings. I do participate in a Bible Study/Sharing class my aunt leads at the parish my mother and her attend but the time works out for me as its a weekday evening. I did do ushering/greeting and was an EMHC at the same parish when I was younger (college age mainly, some later on as needed) because my schedule was steady for work & university things. I do contribute in other ways besides the weekly collection. I do give to various charitable groups that do work locally and give mainly goods (food or clothes). When my schedule changes to allow for a weekend day free, then I’d try to get more involved but that won’t be for a long time. I also was a sponsor/godparent for my sister’s (non church going sister) kids when they were in RCIA a few years ago.

My mother who is no longer in the work force can be more involved in her parish because she does not have a job to dictate her schedule. She is an usher/greeter, an EMHC, and also is called on to help with funeral luncheons. She also attends the weekly Bible Study/Sharing Class too.

My aunt does some part business side things for her husband’s small business. She is in the lay ministry program, leads a Communion/Word service from time to time at a local nursing home, is a lector, leads the Bible Study/Sharing class and has also sponsored a young woman who went through RCIA a few years ago. She was recently chosen to finish the term of someone who had to step away from the parish council for personal reasons. Her husband is in the choir and cantors too.

Like St Paul said, each of us have our own gifts, and not all people can do certain things either. If you read what I did, compared to my mother and my aunt, each of us have done mostly different things for the most part.
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Well said, remembering that even though we are church, we still have to earn our living in secular jobs or businesses in a secular world. Bottom line is we are witnesses in wherever we are stationed. It could be in the workplace or in our own respective family. Our contribution to the church has to depend on that capability so that our immediate obligation and responsibility as a member of the community of God will not be neglected.

We need to be sincere though in how we can participate in our parish activities or doing something for it but it is really in the context of that limitation. Our roles are only as much as according to our talent and capability permits.

On the other hand, full time church workers may not be able to do everything, thus the needs for our participation but more importantly is our reasonable expectation on what they can do.

God bless.
 
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YendisAgev:
It has no question mark at the end.

“Try me. Ask a question.”

I still have not received a question.
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No, I mean the cannibalism part. Frankly with that kind of language, I will not be asking you why you said that. Probably you may not be that sensitive as to how Catholics may react to such statement regarding the Eucharist. So I thought it is rather inflaming. I may misunderstand, and if that is so, please do pardon me.

God bless.
 
Reuben_J said:
No, I mean the cannibalism part. Frankly with that kind of language, I will not be asking you why you said that. Probably you may not be that sensitive as to how Catholics may react to such statement regarding the Eucharist. So I thought it is rather inflaming. I may misunderstand, and if that is so, please do pardon me.

God bless.
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I was a former DEVOUT Roamn Catholic.

How is the Eucharist not cannibalism? I’m not being a troll. I really want to know that one.
 
YendisAgev said:
I was a former DEVOUT Roamn Catholic.

How is the Eucharist not cannibalism? I’m not being a troll. I really want to know that one.
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Ok. So I note you are a former devout Roman Catholic. The Jews also accused us of cannibalism and it was such an abomination to them that we must drink the blood of the Lord considering how they held blood in their belief. Being a devout Roman Catholic, I would guess you know Catholic’s response to this, even if you don’t agree with it.

We also read that even the disciples thought it was a difficult teaching and many of them left but Jesus did not concede anyway.

God bless.
 
Reuben_J said:
Ok. So I note you are a former devout Roman Catholic. The Jews also accused us of cannibalism and it was such an abomination to them that we must drink the blood of the Lord considering how they held blood in their belief. Being a devout Roman Catholic, I would guess you know Catholic’s response to this, even if you don’t agree with it.

We also read that even the disciples thought it was a difficult teaching and many of them left but Jesus did not concede anyway.

God bless.
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I do not understand.
 
YendisAgev said:
I was* a devout…

Anyhow.

How is the Eucharist not cannibalism?

If it is, just say so…
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I would rather you tell me about Catholic teaching on this first and why you do not agree with it. I am just picking up your dialogue with another poster earlier on.
 
Reuben_J said:
I would rather you tell me about Catholic teaching on this first and why you do not agree with it. I am just picking up your dialogue with another poster earlier on.
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Go ahead and do that. I still expect the get a yes or no regarding my question please.

😃
 
YendisAgev said:
Go ahead and do that. I still expect the get a yes or no regarding my question please.

😃
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Not enough. Why do you say it is cannibalism? I thought you were trolling but you said you don’t. So, why do you say it is cannibalism because we do not see it as cannibalism. I would like to know what did you understand about the Eucharist when you used to be a devout Catholic. I may want to know why you left but you don’t have to tell us that. It is more on the Eucharist.

God bless.
 
Reuben_J said:
Not enough. Why do you say it is cannibalism? I thought you were trolling but you said you don’t. So, why do you say it is cannibalism because we do not see it as cannibalism. I would like to know what did you understand about the Eucharist when you used to be a devout Catholic. I may want to know why you left but you don’t have to tell us that. It is more on the Eucharist.

God bless.
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Where did I leave? I’m confused… I bit more than I could chew. It happens. I’m not Trolling

1] Give me a link to where I left and I will return.

2] Cannibalism- the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind. Jesus was fully human and divine. So please explain what Roman Catholics think it is lest any readers assume the worst.
 
YendisAgev said:
2] Cannibalism- the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind. Jesus was fully human and divine. So please explain what Roman Catholics think it is lest any readers assume the worst.
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Thanks. You were probably not that well catechized. The short of it, we are partaking of the body and blood of the glorious Lord. He is not human in his divine form. That was why the disciples found this teaching difficult. They did not realize that Jesus is the Son of God until after the resurrection at Emmaus.

God bless.

Reuben.
 
Reuben_J said:
Thanks. You were probably not that well catechized. The short of it, we are partaking of the body and blood of the glorious Lord. He is not human in his divine form. That was why the disciples found this teaching difficult. They did not realize that Jesus is the Son of God until after the resurrection at Emmaus.

God bless.

Reuben.
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BLASPHEMY! Jesus rose from the dead as a fully human and fully divine God that he is.

Luke 24:36-46

[36] While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

[37] They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. [38] He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? [39] Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

[40] When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. [41] And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” [42] They gave him a piece of broiled fish, [43] and he took it and ate it in their presence.

[44] He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

[45] Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. [46] He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day.”
 
YendisAgev said:
BLASPHEMY! Jesus rose from the dead as a fully human and fully divine God that he is.

Luke 24:36-46

[36] While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

[37] They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. [38] He said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? [39] Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”

[40] When he had said this, he showed them his hands and feet. [41] And while they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement, he asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” [42] They gave him a piece of broiled fish, [43] and he took it and ate it in their presence.

[44] He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.”

[45] Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. [46] He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day.”
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Not in his divine form. He is human in so far when he walked the face of the earth. His nature is both human and divine. The bread and the wine that become the body and the blood of Jesus are his divine form. That is why when we receive the host it still has the appearance of the bread (and the wine), only the substance change.
 
Reuben_J said:
Not in his divine form. He is human in so far when he walked the face of the earth. His nature is both human and divine. The bread and the wine that become the body and the blood of Jesus are his divine form. That is why when we receive the host it still has the appearance of the bread (and the wine), only the substance change.
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Please give me the official RCC idea of what the Eucharist is. Like a link to the Catechism or something. 🙂
 
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