Are Catholics the Worst Idolaters? + Fr. Mike's Homily
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When I was little my mom would tell me we couldn’t eat before going to mass and I was always so hungry and my stomach would growl. Immediately after receiving communion my stomach would stop growling and I was no longer hungry. I always thought it was a miracle. It still happens and it still fascinates me.
That happens to me too! At first my Faith wasn't strong enough to fast for more than an hour beforehand incase I "fainted" but I reminded myself "The Lord will sustain me, just fast the whole morning" and every time, I feel full up as soon as I've eaten His Body - it's amazing!! God Bless 🙏
Jesus fed the 5000 with 12 loaves and 5 fish, so a little host can certainly keep you fed
@@josephjackson1956
Yes, well a 5 yr old certainly isn’t thinking this way.
@@CheapsKate77sadly I think or in great disappointed I was also told this from mother but I never understood why, I always ate food before mass, even now as an adult, id hurry to eat then go to mass, I've not been to mass Eucharist for months now, but it seems that we need to explain to our own children now so they understand, my mother didn't say because God said so which would have probably been enough, but she simply said don't eat before mass which is hollow of meaning why? God doesn't have to explain himself, we cannot explain God away with small insignificant human will power but to explain what God wants us to do is necessary and now I see your comment and understand why, so God bless you , our parents didn't explain to us, which sometimes I understand why theres no explanation needed interesting how you listened to your mother's words and after you ate Eucharist you stopped hungry, but me I remember eating and staying out of church steps as I ate then went in mass to eat Eucharist 30 minutes later , that's the parallels between two boys, one listened one did not. And I probably had tougher time quitting pornography if only had I did what I ought.
@@IsraelCountryCubeyou're supposed to fast for at least an hour before consuming the Eucharist as a form of reverence for Jesus Christ. It is an official rule for us Catholics, Canon No. 919
That's one thing I don't get about protestants, they pretty much completely ignore the early church which I see as incredibly important to understand the faith, St Ignatius of Antioch said outright that the Eucharist is the body and blood of Christ and St Ignatius was appointed directly by St Peter
AMEN
The idolatry doesn't end with worshipping the eucharist. Praying to saints, kissing crucifixes and praying to statues. Some Catholics will say they don't do this but many Catholics do.
What’s wrong with any of those? (Besides the statues, which you misunderstand for praying TO them)
@@JamesMathison98 they are all forms of idolatry. Very serious sin. Please read Exodus 20:4-6 about graven images.
I understand Catholicism very well as I was raised Catholic and attended a Catholic school. Many Catholics in Latin America, Africa and the Philippines actually pray to and worship statues but even having the images without worship is sin.
In John 14:6 JESUS makes clear HE is the only WAY to the FATHER. Praying to "saints" is worse than pointless. It is an insult to GOD who sacrificed HIS SON so that we could approach HIM.
Please read the Bible so you will know how to live a life holy and pleasing to GOD.
GOD bless you.
I left the Catholic Church in my early 20's involved in the evangelical-non-denomination world for forty years. Participated in numerous communion services and always felt something was missing. It wasn't the "something" that was missing it was and is WHO was missing. Long story short it was and is the Eucharist that brought me back to the Catholic Church and yes, I truly believe that the Eucharist IS the Body. Blood, Soul and divinity of Jesus Christ never to leave the Eucharist again.
A so called non denomination is ultimately a denomination. But the painful truth is there’s ONLY ONE CHURCH. Protestant’s belong to 40,000+ man made CULTS which are Pagan and anti Christ. To reject the holy Catholic Church IS to reject Jesus Christ because the holy Catholic Church IS Jesus’s mystical body on earth! The bible is a Catholic book the protestant bible is an incomplete and corrupted Catholic book for proof watch Steve Ray’s excellent testimony! God bless.
Good story
Receiving Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist is The most beautiful, powerful and intimate union we can have with God on earth. Attending a Catholic Mass is like being invited to The Last Supper with Jesus and His apostles. Jesus performed His first Mass and told His apostles to continue His Mass until He returns. Jesus said in Jn 6:51-59 that unless we eat of His Body and drink His Blood In Holy Communion, we will have no life in us. We will never enter Heaven. If we do eat and drink of Him, He will raise us up on the last day. If we eat and drink of Him, without having our mortal sins absolved, without having received the First Sacrament of Holy Communion or if we’re not Catholic, we would be receiving Him unworthily. Receiving Him in Holy Communion unworthily, we bring a sentence against ourselves for not discerning it to be The Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
GOD IS GOOD ! He brought you home❤
So glad to hear some good news welcome home
I looked at this video and I was so worried that everyone was going to say mean things about Catholic beliefs. I haven’t seen any negative comments yet. I’m so glad that Father Mike is a safe haven to share our beliefs.
You really can't be that naive, can you? It is obvious that they are removing negative comments. There are many Protestants that believe that the Catholic church is the home of Satan himself, so not to see some of that represented in the comments should be a red flag to you about the honesty being shown. I'm an atheist by the way.
I go looking for them to defend the faith
I like father mike...alot of catholics do seem too religious...Jesus wants all to come to him not just catholics
@@patrickpelletier9298 here's something not meant to be mean, but enlightening.
John 6:35
[35] Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who COMES to Me will NOT HUNGER, and he who BELIEVES in Me will NEVER THIRST.
The crowds wanted food and He was directing them away from the temporary to the eternal. Jesus says that if I come I won't be hungry, and if I believe I won't be thirsty. Based on what Jesus says, if I come have I eaten? If I believe have I drank?
John 6:40
[40] For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
What is Jesus' promise to those who come and believe?
John 6:47
[47] Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.
Jesus says it again here very straightforward so you don't miss it. What is the prerequisite to eternal life? Belief/faith. You might say eating His flesh and blood? We already see we've done that by coming and believing.
John 6:52
[52] Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”
They obviously don't get it. They're still stuck on their next meal. Jesus has already clearly told us what it means to eat and drink. From this point on he doubles down on His symbolic language as He most frequently did with the jews when they were hard of heart. But it's already been established what is required, and what it means. On that day, way before the institution of the last supper, if they had come and believed would they have eaten and drank? Jesus says yes, what do you say?
1 Timothy 6:3-5
[3] If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, [4] he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, [5] and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Where in scripture does it say that the eucharist is a propitiatory sacrifice?
"The Eucharist is the very sacrifice of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus which he instituted to perpetuate the sacrifice of the cross throughout the ages until his return in glory." So it's sacrificed over and over?
Hebrews 10:10
[10] By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ ONCE for all.
Romans 6:10
[10] For the death that He died, He died to sin ONCE for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
Hebrews 9:25-26
[25] NOR was it that He would offer Himself OFTEN, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own. [26] Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now ONCE at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
Christ is physically present in the eucharist? You worship and adore the elements as if it were Christ himself?
Matthew 24:23-24
[23] Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him. [24] For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.
@patrickpelletier9298 the pope parading a south American statue of a fertility goddess around St Peter's isn't idolatry? How is that not idolatry?
But it isn’t bread anymore. It has the appearance and taste of bread but it truly is Jesus! “This is my body”.
Thanks be to God....for allowing His Body and Blood to remain, looking and tasting like bread and wine...
@@stevearttus8164 Would you take it if it changed to blood and flesh.
if i am not mistaken the substance is bread but the essence is Jesus
That's a lie.
@@keithsmith606 How?
Our parish priest on Sunday stated that 70-80% of CATHOLICS do not believe in the true presence. It broke my heart!
I believe he was exaggerating because most Catholics know that once the bread and wine are blessed by a Catholic Priest, they transform into The Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ. This is called The Transubstantiation and occurs only in a Catholic Mass.
@@southernlady1109 I guess they think Jesus is a liar and of course God could not possibly be a liar
@@kathleenlamantia4239
I think they have been brainwashed over years to attack the Catholic Church and can’t see the truth!
Me too@Jocelyn it brakes my heart😢
No those figures are correct. 2019 Pew research poll. No pun intended. Just look at the liberality from communion in hand, the ease of laity to be Eucharistic ministers, to church laity's attire, to the casual/irreverent walk up to communion. We cannot read hearts & minds but consider the faithfuls actions.
We get accused of Idolatry,but we don’t . We worship the one true God Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We believe Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist
No Jesus Christ used a metaphor
Or not
Yes! We know He is present- Body, blood, soul & divinity.
To anyone who does believe this look up Eucharistic miracles and see how it has actually happend. Research your data
@arielevenson3108 No He did not. Christ makes it clear when he's talking in parables and metaphors. Christ said "This IS my blood and flesh", not "this represents" or "this is like"
In John 6, Jesus says THREE TUMES His body is the bread, and His blood is the wine. John 6:66 is the verse where a bunch of his followers abandoned Jesus because they didn't believe what He repeatedly asserted and established as the Eucharist. 😮
666, interesting number for that scripture.
And ten times earlier in John 6 He told those followers they needed to believe He was the son of God and they refused. If you read earlier in John 6 you will see those followers didn't care about spiritual things but looking for a free meal.
Christ used a Jewish metaphor which the people didn't listen to but the apostles understood in in verse 68 where Peter responded the Christ had the "words" of eternal life, that being the gospel, the key to heaven.
In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.
@@sammygomes7381 You are discounting the words of life offered during the last supper during passover.
@@emmap1159 No my friend, you are discounting the ten times in John 6 He told the disciples they needed to believe He was the Son of God and they refused. Christ than used an old Jewish metaphor which didn't mater as John 3:18 tells us, " He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.
Really? They didn't have chapters and verses when they wrote the bible.
I was raised an atheist but in my mid 20s began to believe in God. I prayed for guidance in choosing a denomination and was lead to the Catholic Church. I quickly learned about the Eucharist and would sit in the back at Mass begging God to give me a sign that the Eucharist TRULY is Jesus. I had 2 possible directions: either the Eucharist was real and I would become Catholic, or I would not become a Christian at all. One day at Mass it was as if a veil was momentarily lifted and I glimpsed the truth, that the Eucharist is the body blood soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. I wept and thanked God and began the process of getting baptized
That's really cool. I started to seriously consider Catholicism and theism/Christianity in general around 25 and dragged my feet until this year (31). For me when it comes to the mysteries I lean more on appealing to the genuine authority of the church. I can't pick and choose what to believe but instead humbly trust and accept...but I will say that I was in a rut for the longest time and only recently does the road I'm on seem to be actually advancing somewhere, which would make sense considering I'm now baptised, confirmed and regularly receiving communion. Alot of grace
How do you accept the idolatry of Mary? The apostolic succession when Peter said in Acts 1 to be an Apostle one had to be present from Jesus's baptism thru His ascension? No priest is that old? That Jesus taught us to pray directly to God for forgiveness of sin. No sinner can forgive you your sins against God.
@@glennherron9499 the bible is a Catholic book. So it's funny you quote from it
@@glennherron9499 thankfully because I was never raised in a Protestant household or otherwise religiously conditioned, I have never needed to overcome any anti-Catholic beliefs minus some secular ones I was taught in school.
@@AjaxNixon God directed me to the Catholic Church before I even had any faith in Jesus specifically. At the time I didn’t particularly believe in the resurrection or the validity of the Bible or Church authority. I only knew I believed in a “higher power” and had gotten as far as thinking it was probably the God of Abraham that I believed in. I let God lead me and tell which authority to follow.
I have a severe gluten sensitivity. If I have the tiniest crumb of gluten my whole body goes into a frenzy of inflammation, stomach aches, joint pain, and brain fog.
When I receive the Eucharist I never have such an adverse reaction. Conversely, I feel peace, and I feel full. Truly, by this small miracle I know that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ.
I've always wondered this...but remember the wafer they mass produce for all churches is gluten free
I don't get it, they love to ask "where is that in the Bible?" as if the bible wasn't voted by the Church. Well, in this case, it is literally written more than once. That is not even an interpretation, tradition or theological concept, that is what Jesus said more than once.
All Christians had the same practice before protestantism: copts, orthodox, eastern christians. That was why being excommunicated was such a big deal, you was not able to feed from Christ.
That is why sola scriptura is bad. Without the tradition and doctrine one could easily impose principles of judaism on christianity.
Our god has revealed himself to us, he walked among us, taught us how to live by his own human mouth. Jesus is the biggest idol by this logic.
Anyway you have a lot of paticence father, I would never do business with someone who would segregate me by my faith in the XXI century. You really turned the other cheek there.
Don't forget that Jesus had to argue with people on what he really meant. "How can we eat his flesh?" Only for him to double down with "you must eat my flesh." He didn't use an analogy, people were concerned because he was LITERALLY saying they must eat his flesh :)
My friend Christians were around hundreds of years before the Catholic church. Feel free to look in the word of God. Even a cursory reading of the New Testament will reveal that the Catholic Church does not have its origin in the teachings of Jesus or His apostles. In the New Testament, there is no mention of the papacy, worship/adoration of Mary (or the immaculate conception of Mary, the perpetual virginity of Mary, the assumption of Mary, or Mary as co-redemptrix and mediatrix), petitioning saints in heaven for their prayers, apostolic succession, the ordinances of the church functioning as sacraments, infant baptism, confession of sin to a priest, purgatory, indulgences, or the equal authority of church tradition and Scripture. As one can see the origin of the Catholic Church is not in the teachings of Jesus and His apostles, as recorded in the New Testament.
Amen brother
@@sammygomes7381 And then why do you ignore the early Church, A historical look at such things shows that the organization of the Church Began forming right away and that formed into the Catholic Church without demarcation, to deny that is silly as the main detractors were outright heretics like Arius
Sola Scriptura is true. Tradition is fine until it goes against scripture. Jesus even rebuke pharisees for their traditional beliefs over Scriptural beliefs.
Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. - John 6:53-59
It's a very scary thought that if we're wrong we could be the worst idolaters possible...
Good thing Jesus was very explicit in the fact that it was absolutely not a metaphor, while instructing us specifically to continue the Tradition in memory of Him.
Actually it was a metaphor or do you think Christ is also a door? In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.
@sammygomes7381 But then what does the entirety of John 6 mean? In all the metaphors Christ spoke, the people he was presenting them to understood he was talking in metaphor. They weren't like: "but Jesus you are not a door!" This time however they took it litterally, and Jesus had multiple chances to correct them and tell them that he meant it figuratively, however he did not. And when people leave him for it, he asks his disciples if they too want to leave. Because Jesus' whole ministry hinged on this 1 teaching, where he was willing to lose all his apostles iver it.
@@Rachel91224 Here is the main problem with those in John 6 which Christ explains in John 3:18 "He who believes in Him is not condemned. But he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." Christ told them about 10 times they needed to believe He was the Son of God before even using the metaphor and they refused because they failed to have ears to hear. When Christ asked the apostles look at verse 68-69. 68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have believed and have come to know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” The apostles understood as Peter said you have the “words” of life which is they believed Christ is the Son of God
Do you remember how Christ explained the purpose of parables. In Luke, Christ was responding to a different parable, but He explained the reason for parables.
Luke 8:910 He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
I hope this helps, many blessings.
A metaphor doesn’t leave you ill or dying. 1Cor 11:27-30.
and then proved it to us time and time again through the Eucharistic miracles.
Father Mike you are really full of the Holy Spirit .may God continue blessing you
I’m sorry for anyone who has been affected by the leadership of the Roman Catholic church. Please study God’s word for yourself. When you learn the truth, you will understand that Peter is not the Rock. Christ is the Rock *1 Corinthians 3:11.* Please study.
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The Rock of the church is spiritual, not physical. There is only one Rock.
. *1 Corinthians 10:4* and all drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ.
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• Adding doctrines is apostasy and it’s forbidden. *Deuteronomy 4:2,* *Galatians 1:6-7*
*Mark 7:7*
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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• There aren’t any officiating new covenant priests. We have a new ministry in the new covenant. *Ephesians 4:11*
• God does not show favoritism *Romans 2:11* -- there is no evidence in the scriptures that the church was built on a human. We do not have a human pope to guide us. We are led by the Spirit. *Acts 1:5*
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• The scriptures show no differences in the apostles.
****Equality amongst the apostles****
“Ye are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone. *Ephesians 2:20*
“And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” *Revelation 21:14*
• Peter was no different than the others.
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• Mary nor the saints can hear prayers. There’s only one mediator in heaven between God & Man.
*1 Timothy 2:5* For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
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• All Christians are saints.
*Philippians 1:1* Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:
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• All Christians are priests. We are living stones being built in a spiritual house on a spiritual Rock. You can approach God fit forgiveness yourself.
*1 Peter 2:5* Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
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• The doctrine of original sin is not biblical or found in the scriptures at all.
*Ezekiel 18:20* The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
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• Every Christian is supposed to study and read the Bible for themselves. *Acts 17:11*
*Ephesians 3:4* As you read what I have written, you will understand my insight into this plan regarding Christ.
*Psalm 119:15* I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways.
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• In order to receive salvation, we must all repent and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior. We need no Eucharist, no veneration of Mary, no long list of good works, no baptism regeneration, no sacrament of reconciliation, no rosary, no pope, no papacy, no belief in Peter as the Rock *1 Corinthians 3:11,* no man-made doctrine, no priests, no infallible magisterium, no Vatican, no communion of saints, no catechisms, no Marian dogmas, no transubstantiation, but only by faith through grace are we saved.
*Ephesians 2:8* "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast".
He said it straight. It is a call to be bold in one’s faith, something I need to work on.
The eucharist is Jesus christ
Jesus Christ is the eucharist. In Him we thank the Lord.
Bread is bread, but Jesus is the Bread of Life.
Jesus used a metaphor
Thank you Fr Mike for defending the truth ,God be with you for ever
I don't believe that I physically recieve Christ's body but I definitely feel like I recieve his spirit when I take it. Not sure what denomination that agrees with or not.
Christ said IS. Not represents, not symbolizes, not reminds of. This IS my blood and flesh. When you toy around with the words of God Himself, there's no telling what other changes you are willing to make
Absolutely. I converted because I felt the presence of God while communion was going on when visiting a parish. It was like a road to Damascus moment to me. I had left Evangelical churches because I felt a memorial only communion was pointless.
You can’t rely on a feeling…that can NEVER be our “go to”!!
Our feelings lie to us!!
Jeremiah said:
The heart is desperately wicked!! Who can understand it.
The heart is where our feelings flow
@@shawnjones2454 Well, scripture also backs up the Catholic view of communion, so there is that. In fact, scripture doesn't back up the Evangelical interpretation of the scriptures at all- and Evangelicals don't even accept all of the scriptures. The Church existed before the New Testament and was up and running. So- I'll go with that.
@@michelledalenaathey could also be corrupted in all these years? The church that is no? Yes it can because it is ran by humans
just a psyche experience..nothing celestial..amen
Yes! One can know and be overcome with His presence because Jesus told us so.
Because HE, our Lord and Savior, can do ANYTHING thus during Mass, He literally turns the wafer and wine into His LITERAL body and blood. Supernatural powers are His alone. 💙
Can I ask you a question coming from a genuine place? What gives you your conviction in this specific belief that it is Jesus’ literal body?
@@east_coastt the conviction I believe comes from being in the presence of the Blessed sacrament. When I was in process of receiving my confirmation I would go to the adoration chapel to talk to Jesus and sitting there you could feel his true presence. Not to mention all the supernatural events that occur when the Eucharist is brought forth, all the Eucharistic miracles that are proved by scientists, and even confirmed by the satanists. Satanists have been known to steal the Eucharist in order to degrade it at their events. Sadly satanists have more faith that it is Jesus than most Christians. Please spend time with Him in adoration and He will show you the truth. ❤ God Bless!
Wow! Online I can't usually get Protestants even interested in the Real Presence. Oddly, that board member is much closer to the truth of the thing than many Protestants.
Sadly closer to the truth than many Catholics if pew research is to be believed
Most Christians have ears to hear and know they are saved by faith in Christ not eating bread.
@sammygomes7381 Jesus also said we are saved by faith and obedience (John 3:36). One of his commands is that unless we eat his body and drink his blood, we have no life in us (John 6:53). We are saved by both faith (believing in the Eucharist) and obedience (receiving the Eucharist).
@@WC3isBetterThanReforged To prevent being misconstrued, Jesus specifies that He has been speaking metaphorically: “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you-they are full of the Spirit and life” (John 6:63).
One might ask themselves if Christ said we were suppose to eat Hin how come the apostles never said mass or preached such a message let alone telling us how to change bread into Christ. What the apostles preached was we are saved by faith.
@sammygomes7381 St. Justin Martyr's description of 2nd century Christian worship in his First Apology, chapter 66 describes the Eucharist as the actual body and blood of Jesus as do several other apostolic fathers. St. Paul and St. John both wrote of passing on Jesus's teaching not just in scripture but in oral tradition. Much of that oral tradition was recorded by the Apostolic Fathers. Ignatius of Antioch, Iraneus and Clement of Alexandria are but a few, Ignatius himself being a disciple of John.
So being a cannibal is ok?
And the times when God told us not to eat blood we can just forget he said that, in that case would god be a liar and hypocrite?
What an interesting situation! "We WOULD be idolaters if this wasn't really Jesus."
Jesus himself said the bread is his flesh. Not just at Last Supper, but multiple times in the Gospels did he argue about it. The people were deeply concerned, because he didn't say it was an analogy, he kept *doubling down* that we must literally eat his flesh, to become more like Him and recieve His full blessing :)
But everyone forgets the line “do this in remembrance of me” not recrucify me when I clearly stated “it is finished.”
@xeverettx2564 why would He say "Do it in remembrance of me" if He didn't mean repeating that sacrifice by His followers? The first Christians were accused of being the cannibals, simply because they were talking about eating the Body and Blood of Christ.
Btw, not one of the first Christians died because he was reading the Bible.
In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.
@@xeverettx2564The Eucharist isn't a recrucifixion, it's a commemoration. The rite is the memorial of the original sacrifice of Christ. It is an effective commemoration of his death that also makes present the Sacrifice on the Cross. Roman Catholics believe in the real presence, an issue that has dominated Catholic-protestant controversies about the Eucharist.
@sammygomes7381 funny, how you're pulling quotes from, oh, irony, from sources you recognize as apocryphal, to make it fit your narrative.
In Gospel, Jesus clearly says, repeatedly, that His Body is the true food. Those who refused to believe it left Jesus.
Interestingly, those who refuted that truth, are talked about in John's Gospel, under very telling number: 6,66
" From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him."
It seems that you assume Catholics don't know Scriptures. Our Church collected and canonized that book in the fourth century. Whole twelve centuries before Martin Luther started questioning the validity of Bible teaching done by the Church. Twelve centuries! 1200 years!
Have you ever read what people living in the fifth, sixth, seventh century wrote about Body and Blood of our Lord? Have you heard about Eucharistic Miracles? The first recorded miracle happened in Lanciano, Italy. We're talking eight century! More than 600 years before Luther was even born, before he altered 73 books in Bible, cutting the number down to, well, 66. Removing 7. God's number of perfection.
Idolatry is a sin.
Exodus 20:3-6,
"You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments."
Romans 1 1: 21-23,
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Thank you for proving that the Catholics are not idolaters! I wish more protestants would actually read the Bible so they can see the statues/images Catholics have are in no way idols.
The thing that drove me to convert was the argument that the Eucharist is God. I knew that if I was wrong, I was rejected the true body and blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ. If I need to eat his flesh and drink his blood to have life, and I don’t do that, then what does that mean for me? I knew that if I followed my heart and chose Catholicism and I was wrong, that meant I was basing my entire faith around idolatry. I knew that either way, this was the most serious decision of my life. I put it off for a while and tried to force myself not to think about it, but eventually I had to say “God, if this isn’t you then I’m sorry please forgive my ignorance, because if there is even a shot this really is you then I can’t live without it.” I started going to mass summer of 2021 and was baptized Easter vigil 2022, and I literally counted down the days for months and could tell you the number off of the top of my head. I was so incredibly in love and excited to receive the Eucharist. Today, I have absolutely no question that the Eucharist is God. He is undeniably God. The Eucharist is a title, just as Christ is, because they’re both equally accurately describing the role of Jesus in that moment. I know with all of my being that the Eucharist is Jesus to the point where if it weren’t true I wouldn’t just be an idolatrous person, I would be absolutely the most unhingedly insane and delusional person alive, because I am so convinced that if it were just bread and wine and you weren’t, the thoughts you’d hear in my head would make me sounds absolutely insane
We r not Idolatry =is believing something is a God like a statue or a piece of bread at the grocery store or crystal's. We don't believe that!!!! we don't believe in idols we believe in Our Lord!
Saint Matthew 18:18
Truly I tell you whatever you bind on Earth will be bound in Heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven.
Yes my friend, that is the keys to heaven Christ gave to all believers.
i think you may be confusing Peter as the rock of the church as it says in the verses before. But if you trace it back to the Greek you can see that Peter is not the rock but Christ. It would not make much sense for God to place the church of his believers on a sinful man like us that would eventually die.
@@BrodyStag Eph 2:20 supports your statement as all the apostles and prophets were the foundation of the church but Christ was the cornerstone.
That is the key to the kingdom of heaven which every believer possesses.
@@sammygomes7381 yeah i don’t see where we differ unless i am missing something. I just believe that Jesus is the only key as you said. And the Church, which is made up of all his believers, not a specific denomination or building, is built upon Christ not Peter.
Here’s what I don’t understand: non Catholic Christians believe every other word of Jesus. Every word from St Paul. But don’t believe Jesus meant it when he said “this is my body and this is my blood.” I have never felt Jesus gave us the authority to choose. He said “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man & drink His blood, you have no life in you. whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life , & I will raise him up at the last day.” John 6:53-58. I believe Jesus and take Him at His word.
"Amen Amen I say unto you unless you eat my Flesh and drink my Blood you have no life within you."
Hmmm almost identical to needing to drink the living water He spoke about to the woman at the well. Do you drink the living water or did you understand it to was a metaphor?
@@sammygomes7381 read the Greek Christ doubles down and uses the Greek verb of gnawing like an animal. The living water is both metaphorical and literal seeing as both Blood and Water mingled when Christ was pierced by a spear
@@spoodermensNot saying i have a perfect understanding or can't be wrong, but isnt Johns gospel the most metaphorical out of them all? Its a gospel where Jesus puposefully says a confusing thing to have the pharisees, or any listener really co pletely misunderstand him, giving him an oppurtunity to clarify what he means. One user above gave the living water example but we dont imagine we have to drink from a flowing river.
Unless im mistaken Jesus also says his flesh is bread from heaven but we'd have to imagine, if literal, that his human flesh was residing in heaven literally then descended down into the womb literally.
Once again i'm not against the presence of Jesus being *able* to be in the eucharist, especially through the spirit, but I wonder if thats the meaning John/Jesus intended to communicate to us through that gospel.
@@youngknowledgeseeker this is the problem with protestantism. You don't quiet understand how to read the scriptures because you all have cut yourselves off from church history and tradition. John's gospel isn't metaphorical, everything Christ says has a double or even triple layer to it. It's always more than just literal or metaphorical, plus with Church tradition and writings from the early Church fathers that help us to better understand scripture with applying the traditions of the first four centuries of the church. Plus the writings of Justin Martyr to the Roman Emporer to show what and how Christians celebrated is the Liturgy of the Catholic Mass. They ate Eucharist and they most certainly believed in the presence of Christ in the Eucharist and not just a symbol.
@@spoodermens I don't think you really fully read my post nor did you really try to engage what we were saying objectively...
So, cannibalism? This one was always extraordinarily difficult for me to wrap my head around.
I believe! And the hard truth is, I am utterly desperate for the Eucharist to be truly Him.
You dont need all these traditions to get to Jesus...he wants a personal relationship with you
Thank you, I will take your advice and ignore 2,000 years of Christian theology.
@@tlng9466 where does it say you have to take it...
You said it yourself….
You truly are the worst idolaters in the history of humanity. Nowhere in the Bible does it say to pray to Mary. Nowhere does it say to pray to the saints. Nowhere does it say that taking the communion in remembrance of Him, His sacrifice/love for us, that you are actually eating Him or drinking His blood. Y’all got that part wrong. The other part you have wrong is that Jesus Christ is the only one who can absolve sins. No human priest. It’s scary how many people just follow the Catholic Church with a blind eye and don’t read Gods word for themselves. It makes my heart sad. Half or more of my family think that because they go to mass and confess to a human in a robe, they are close to God. They pray to Mary who was never given authority over sin. They look to the saints for protection not God Himself. Why? I am no longer Catholic. But a large part of my family still is. Saddens me.
We have been given a gift of His true presence in the Eucharist. I love being in the FULLNESS of Faith!
If ever in doubt of this, research eucharistic miracles. It will blow your mind and destroy any doubt you have.
It did for me and was part of what brought me to the Catholic Faith.
Om nom nom... The body, blood, soul, and divinity of the Divine Person with two natures (divine and human). John 6 does not stutter. If Protestants are "Sola Scriptura," then they are the greatest hypocrites to their own manmade doctrine since the words of Jesus Christ are divine revelation.
How much more man-made can it get than "let's all symbolically participate in the ritual murder of God every week-- and devour the body!!" People will believe anything if the spectacle is 'juicy' enough...
@@GypsyKnave Your first mistake is that it is "symbolic." Go back to the Gospel of John 6 and read the original Greek. Then tell me how that becomes symbolism when Jesus then gives His body and blood at the new Passover meal (His Last Supper) as a participation in His sacrifice on the Cross (the new Pascal Lamb).
Nice try but Christians have eyes to see and ears to hear and understand a Jewish metaphor when they read it. In Jewish thought, bread was equated with the Torah, and "eating of it" was reading and understanding the covenant of God (cf. Deuteronomy 8:3). For example, the apocryphal book of Sirach states, "'He who eats of me will hunger still, he who drinks of me will thirst for more; he who obeys me will not be put to shame, he who serves me will never fail.' All this is true of the book of Most High’s covenant, the law which Moses commanded us as an inheritance for the community of Jacob" (Sirach 24:20-22). Quoting from Sirach here is not endorsing it as Scripture; it only serves to illustrate how the Jewish people thought of Mosaic Law. It is important to understand the equating of bread with the Torah to appreciate Jesus’ real point.
@@sammygomes7381 Jesus' words saying this IS my body and this IS my blood are pretty clear he means the bread and wine literally are his body and blood. The Mosaic Law was fulfilled by Jesus coming to us and giving us the Eucharist, he tells us to DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME. there's no if ands or buts about his instruction and no allegory or parable when he says this. Jesus is the Word made flesh and he tells us to eat him both in the Eucharist and in reading the scriptures. It's both, not one or the other.
@@sammygomes7381 Looking at the Greek again, Jesus keeps ratcheting it up each time he says, "Unless you (eat)...." We do not translate that into English well enough. He literally says masticate and naw (like a dog on a bone). If Jesus meant it as a mere metaphor and symbol, he would have downplayed it instead of kicking it up a notch each time. The people would not have found it as a hard word and have been repulsed by it leaving the Son of Man. Peter said it best knowing that it was the truth when Jesus asked if the apostles too would leave. "Where else are we to go? You have the words of eternal life." The disciples thought he was talking about cannibaliam.
Jesus is a Divine Person (divine nature and human nature). The flesh is of no avail unless it is of the Spirit. Therefore, Christ's body and blood soul and divinity is present in the Eucharistic meal instituted at the last supper and offered up in the eternal sacrifice on the cross. He then reveals all things to Cleopus and the other disciple on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. And when they ask him to stay, their eyes are opened as to who he is as the risen Christ during the breaking of the bread. This is the eucharist and the first Mass offered by Jesus after His resurrection as the eternal high priest according to the royal order of Melkiezadek. We then see the breaking of the bread over and over as the apostles and presbyters carry it on in remembrance of Jesus as an everlasting memorial. We see Paul talk about receiving communion in 1 Corinthians 10. Paul and Luke were friends and apostolic colleagues, and they also knew the other apostles and the Virgin Mary. These are all first hand accounts. Everything from the ram in thorns when Abraham did not hold back his only begotten son from being offered to God, to the Pascal Lamb of Passover to the manna in the desert to the Eucharist are all in sequence. There is no contradiction nor mincing of words. Christ means what he says and says what he means. Otherwise, he is a liar or a lunatic as C.S. Lewis says. He is God and can do whatever he wants. And he doesn't need the interpretation of someone in the 1500s or the 2000s to determine what he meant in the 30s AD.
“Do this in REMEMBRANCE of me”. If it’s truly the blood and body, then it wouldn’t be in remembrance, it would be resacrificing jesus over and over again. He said on the cross: It is finished! His one time death for sins of all mankind. Jesus said also to Nicodemus: I speak to you of earthly things and you do not understand. How then can I speak of spiritual things?
Jesus used so many different ways of preaching the kingdom of God. Do Roman Catholics also cut off their hand or pluck out their eye when they sin? Don’t see any of them taking that verse literally.
We really are all in on the Eucharist. Let it ride, baybee!
Mean things such as that you apparently believe in cannibalism? I have heard that Christ was "...100% man and 100% god..." the body being the part that made him man--not God. Consuming ("literal...") flesh of man is the definition of cannibalism. All I'm saying is, you might want to stop and think about what sort of 'God' would consider that 'worship'...
@@evanmabry895 ✝️Crux sancta sit mihi lux / Non draco sit mihi dux
Vade retro satana / Numquam suade mihi vana
Sunt mala quae libas / Ipse venena bibas✝️
@@Braingrandchild I don't speak Latin, but I'm going to guess it's something along the lines of '...the BLOOD! Salvation is in the Blood! Bow your head and be grateful for the POWER OF BLOOD! Only the Purest Blood will do for our rituals... upon the proper recitation of our spell-prayer, this water is transmuted into sweet, fresh(?) BLOOD! DRINK and rejoice for the shedding of blooooood!'
...Close enough.
It's a fallen world... You think satan--the 'Father of Lies'-- couldn't deceive you into participating in a symbolic slaughter of your own God on a weekly basis? What exactly do you think of when you think of satanic ritual, if not BLOOD SACRIFICE...?
Nope, I was saved by Faith in Christ and from that moment on He is in me. 1 Corinthians 6:19 What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own?
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, seeing whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you are disqualified.
Jesus is lord of all....I'm privilege to be born a catholic. We are one in jesus❤
It's the Mary stuff that's weird.
Why do you not believe that anything is possible to God our heavenly father.
@paddypipe9218 The gospel of salvation is underpinned by prophecy and truths hidden in the Old Testament and revealed in The New. Apart from the promise to Eve in Genesis, the annunciation to Mary in the New Testament, and Mary's interaction at the wedding feast in Canna there is no other reference and certainly not to her being alive in heaven and for us to pray to her. Jesus told us to 'Ask' the Father in His name. We come as heirs and priests. Mary is not our mediator. Gives a false impression of the way that Jesus provided for us all to enter into the presence of God.
@@marty1234able our lady is our go between with God true you don't have to pray to her to be saved but I do know she brought me back to God from a very dangerous place ie the secular materialistic world I've felt both her and jesus love and she loves us very much but jesus loves us way beound description. I have started to read the bible and it's a good guide line to God but remember it was written by men and men are fallible some things are beound explanation and as jesus said to Thomas you believe because you have seen happy are those who have not seen and yet believe. Jesus made Mary the mother of us all while dying on the cross I suggest if you have any further questions about her you ask him because it's pretty obvious your not going to believe anything anyone here says because you had judged before you even answered a neather quote from jesus judge not and you shall not be judged. You don't believe in the emaculate conception so tell me how do you believe jesus was conceived.
@paddypipe9218 I'm very glad that you have been saved from a dark place, Patrick. No disputing that, my friend. I do believe 100% in the immaculate conception it was as a result of the first messianic prophecy God spoke to Eve in Genesis chapter 3. Also, again, in Isaiah 7 :14. As for the bible being the work of man and corrupted, we differ in opinion. It must be accepted that scripture is the inerrant word of God and inspired by the Holy Spririt. Otherwise, we are open to dispute of every kind. Revelations, for instance, were. written by John but in the direction of Jesus, sending an angel to tell John what to write. Rev 1 :1.
For me, scripture is the key to my understanding. Although the Catholic Church does rely on tradition, too.
@@marty1234able very fair assessment but only one point I didn't say the bible was corrupted I said it was written by men and men are fallible ie prone to mistakes or remembering things differently.
I believe in Jesus, I've been praying constantly and I'm still learning a lot, but my question is why wouldn't the belief of the eucharist being actually Jesus be considered cannibalism?
Amen ❤❤❤. Good and faithful Priest you are Fr. Mike
yes,,you got the idolatry bit correct..but the ignorance is understandable..total superstitions nonsense..amen
And has been from the beginning of Christianity. “I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David; and for drink I desire his blood, which is love incorruptible” (St. Ignatius, disciple of Apostle John's Letter to the Romans 7:3 [A.D. 110])
when jesus appeared to his disciples after his resurrection, he said he was flesh and bone, not flesh and blood. that blood was spilled once and for all. the bread was his flesh which he gave for the life of the world, on the cross. john 6:47-57.
why do you dress like a wizard, or as a king, in kings palaces?
you said it yourself.
My Lord My God❤Jesus is truly present in Holy Eucharist🙏
Jesus doesn't need those things...he is present even if you don't have a Bible...call his name
You are committing idolatry.
Amen😊❤🎉
I'm pretty sure bread is not Jesus
Bless you Father!
The true presence has been believed for over 2000 years. So did the Protestants figure it out that we were all idolaters in the last 500 years?
Remember there was the Christian church hundreds of years before the Catholic church and the apostles never said mass or that they could turn bread into Christ. They preached faith in Christ.
@@sammygomes7381 wrong you need to do some research on the early Church Fathers
oh those crazy Catholics! Worship bread and take Mary as queen and pray to dead people. Yup, guilty as charged and would die before I change! Viva Cristo Rey! Mary,Queen of Heaven, pray for us!
Had us in the first half not gonna lie 😅
Amen
Catholics literally worship Mary. First of all calling someone the queen of heaven is idolatry, and they also crown a statue of Mary and kneel and pray to it, during the May crowning. That’s idolatry as described in the Bible!
It is a spiritual teaching to eat his flesh= obey his word, drink his blood= be under his covenant covered under his blood shed, that is commemorative celebration to keep in our memory what he did for us and so that we may live because of him and gain eternal life, having charity is our purpose not going to mass and taking the eucharist every sunday we are the body of christ and we should take care of each other being in unity
They accuse Catholics of being idolatrous, but within heresy, their "mass" is blasphemous, and produces confusion in and division of the flock.
Have you actually been to a Mass???
They are so lost and quick to try to condemn Jesus Christs church
This made me so happy. amen❤️🙏🏼
But why would we want to consume those things from a human!!!!! Who’s really listening to the words! Isn’t that borderline cannibalism???? This is yet another point where religion becomes questionable… 🤔
The reason we are commanded to eat his flesh and drink his blood is because he is the passover Lamb. In the old covenant all of Israel had to eat the flesh of the passover lamb. Jesus took it one step further and commanded us to drink his blood. The reason behind that is because the soul is in the blood. That is why Israel could not drink blood in the old covenant. Because the soul is in the blood and that's why blood was required for your soul when you sin. Soul for a soul, atonement.
Jesus's blood/soul is God. Therefore when we drink his blood we become immortal and we will have everlasting life. Because we have just ingested the soul of God into our bodies. The blood is where the soul is and Jesus's soul is God.
it's in the gospel of john!
I'm super thankful to know that this is absolutely Jesus because otherwise I have committed some serious idolatry especially in recent history with the national Eucharistic pilgrimage happening. Thank God that he is there Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I wouldnt wanna have it any otherway.
Transubstantiation is idolatry, and beyond that, a slap in the face to the work done on the cross. Christ was sacrificed once, and it only took once, for the sins of all who call upon his name. If you believe you need to personally kill him over and over again, you don't believe that his sacrifice was sufficient for all sin.
Christ said "do this in REMEBERANCE of me," not do this to me again and again.
Calvary FULLFILLED the need for blood sacrifice.
Imagine if folks could take those words to heart, and ponder what it would mean to live a pure life with each bite they took...
It would be a completely different world than the one where priests advertise "come one, come all; there plenty of FLESH AND BLOOD to go around!!"
That is a dishonest misrepresentation of what transubstantiation is. We participate in one and the same sacrifice. No-one believes we literally resacrifice Jesus
Remember, bearing false witness like this is a sin. Without lies , Protestantism dies.
And He does it through His minister, the priest.
Christ's sacrifice on Calvary was done once, but He loves us and gives Himself to us EVERYDAY!
@aprilbarter Upon his death Christ said IT IS DONE.
The romans say: DO IT EVERYDAY.
Man cannot follow Christ and the catechism, it is not possible.
There is nothing wrong with communion. The issue that the camp should have with the catholic church is that they deleted the second commandment and split the tenth commandment in half. Not to mention deleting bible verses such as Matthew 17:21. But more significant is the non-biblical baptism that they do: not with repentance, not in the name of the lord Jesus Christ (they use the trinity instead which is another lie) , and not with full body submersion ( liderally the definition of baptism ). Perhaps people don't experience the promised miracles, signs, and wonders because they were lied to and did not follow God's baptism formula. The doctorine of man cannot change the doctorine of God. Over the centuries until Napoleon came, the catholic church murdered 100s of millions just for baptizing people the way that the Bible tells us to. The most significant of these murders was the Spanish inquisition where they liderally hosted carnivals called autos-da-fé where the main attraction was murdering Christians. These were later replaced with the more publicized spanish bull fights.
Are you high? Or seriously misinformed.
That’s true!
At least he admits to being the worst idolaters in history
Read your bibles people. Youll find ZERO catholics in it.
There's no protestants in the Bible
@@fraxinus7399 that's right!
@@fraxinus7399 Just believers in Christ Jesus that is the body of Christ.
Wrong. Saint Peter, all the apostles, and everyone mentioned in the bible that joined the Church were Catholics. Now before you say "No, the word "Catholic" isn't used so they weren't actually Catholics". At that time the Catholic Church was the only Church, so they had no reason to use the word "Catholic". Also the use of the word Catholic to describe the Church came around pretty quickly, first observed at around 107 AD.
@@gorbshal2598 The church is the body of believers in Christ, not a religion, institution or building made with hands
Oop for a moment he accidentally become self aware 😅💀
He said, "Do this in "remembrance" of me. Not to worship me.
It was a type of symbolism, saying his body was going to be broken for us. And his blood was going to cover us.
If you studied the Torah as we are supposed to do, you would understand why the sacrifice was important and what it meant.
But instead you have people worshiping the item. Like in the wilderness when they worshiped the staff in Numbers 21. Instead of looking upon and having faith.
You really don't know anything and your explaining it
Don’t you also claim to be god ? When you baptize the kids. You claim to be god. That’s blasphemy
What? The baptismal formula is "I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit". No claim of being God in sight
The Eucharist is not necessary for salvation. But idolatry is worthy of damnation. I wouldn't risk it if there is any bit of doubt for it being interpreted in any different way due to the scale of outcome.
But Jesus clearly said in John 6 that the Eucharist is required for salvation
@Big Chungus This is true. But it is also true that in John:1 that the Word was made flesh. If we are to eat the flesh, is it possible it is refferring to the word? That is what we need to take from and eat from. Is he perhaps talking about consuming spiritual food?
@maazzaaa1 you failed to understand the message. Jesus said " If you do not eat my body and drink my blood, you have no life in you".
The Eucharist is really Jesus, how else are we to get it? If not through how He showed the disciples during the Last Supper? He said "This is My Body, take and eat. This is my Blood, rake and drink". He then ended "Do this in memory of me".
The message in the video may not be clear on first look. But Fr meant we are worst because we don't really believe and we don't reverence Jesus enough.
@Amalachukwu Immaculata Muoghalu I read the passage. And I admit it is one that is quite complicated. I believe we all fall short of the understanding of Gods word.
May I ask you, if one does not consume the Eucharist, does that mean they can not be saved?
I understood Mike's message very well. And may I add I quite respect and love him for I believe he is truly a man on fire for the Lord.
@@maazzaaa1 If one knowingly and willingly rejects the Holy Eucharist, that is communion with Jesus, he cannot be saved. Salvation IS communion with Jesus.
Just as the Holy Spirit was present in the sound of roaring wind Jesus is present, the sacrificial lamb, by the consecrated bread.
no. the gift of the holy spirit at pentecost was given that they should be his witnesses, declaring the gospel to all men.
the true worshippers worship God in spirit and in truth. the mystery revealed is christ in you. temples of God. his body, "flesh and bone", is seated on the throne with the father. his blood was spilled on earth once and for all.
It has been said that if what Catholics believe is true, then Catholicism is the world's greatest religion that ever existed, whereas if what Catholicism teaches is false, it is the world's greatest heresy.
❤️Catholics donate millions of dollars yearly to the needy,,,💞and as a Catholic I'm happy to know that when I drop my money Into the collection bag on Sundays that it's actually going to help people, every Sunday all Catholics pray for world peace,❤️the sick, and support locals in need, I'm proud of the Catholic religion for it's consistency in believing that The true devine God revealed himself in the flesh as Jesus, who is the truth, the light, and the way, and will return to judge all. The Catholic religion is still the largest religion in the world, and also the one and only Christian religion that traces all the way back to the days of Jesus where it was first born by Jesus himself.❤❤❤
Jesus Christ told us specifically what to do ❤
Well, Jesus said so. So im comfortable with it.
God please help me to believe and appreciate the Eucharist and the blessed Sacramento more
Best answer to that person, Father. I hope that person is enlightened by your words. God bless you, Father! 🤗😇🙏
Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran etc... we need to remember what we have in common. Its not about whos "right". The important thing is that we lead people to God. We need to keep spreading the Good news that God sent us Jesus to die for our sins and the only way to God is through accepting Jesus into our heart. We are allies.
Jesus was crucified once. Not every Sunday.
Amen! Jesus is not crucified every Sunday, or every day when mass is celebrated thousands of times around the world each day. What is your point? Hebrews has a good chapter on this
So Jesus's body was made out of bread? 🤔
No, where’d you get that from?
Please search about Carlo Acutis
For Protestants, go read what the first Christians did… how did they celebrated mass, took the Eucharist etc. Go read the Fathers of the Church of Christ! EVERYONE WAS CATHOLIC until the 1500!
I'd been baptised as a little kid, but haven't actually been trying to be a Catholic up until recently. I had my first Confession and Communition at 36, half a year ago. And it feels like magic to me, the only real kind of magic in this world, that we can have this gift of the Eucharist that He gave to us. Well, maybe "magic" is the wrong word here, but it feels like finding the miracle I've always tried and hoped to find in the world since I was a child. I've looked everywhere, but the miracle was always right there. I saw the place when I was four, and then failed to believe it for the next 30 years.
Am I making any sense? 😅
Anyway. Father Mike is awesome. Lord bless him.
I don’t quite understand how communion can be literal. It seems you’re resacrificing Christ over and over. Why do you need to do this when His sacrifice was once and for all? Unless this is a way to merit grace. Which according to Galatian’s, Paul states you can be separated from Christ. 🤔🤔
How dare you do EXACTLY what Jesus commands...
Thank You Jesus for Your One and Only Holy Catholic Church that created the Bible and provides us with the One and Only New Covenant between God and Man which we can only participate in at His Church.
Luke 22:20
John 6:53-54
Matt 16:13-20
YES, THEY ARE. Sadly.
Jesus the Bread of Life
John 6:32-59
John 6:35
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.
John 6:63
"The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you-they are full of the Spirit and life".
Correcting an Abuse of the Lord’s Supper
1 corinthians 11:23-27
23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, YOU PROCLAIM THE LORD'S DEATH UNTIL HE COMES.
27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
"DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME"
(Remembrance IS NOT transubstantiation).
"Whoever EATS THE BREAD or DRINKS THE CUP of the Lord"
(NOT THE FLESH, DIVINITY AND SOUL of the Lord).
IS NOT catholic religion's fault. They teach their own theology (doctrine).
IT IS each one of us fault for not reading God's word (Bible).
Matthew 22:29
Jesus replied, “You are in error because YOU DO NOT KNOW THE SCRIPTURES or the power of God".
Peace be with you🙏
The Catholic Church originated many years before other Protestant Christian Churches and have an interpretation that is in some cases dated due to lack of in-depth scripture analysis, and a desire not to stray from their Roots.
This desire does also have its benefits, it prevents them from modern day Protestant mistakes no church is perfect only Jesus Christ.
Two examples of these areas in which their interpretation could be expanded upon with research is Mary and the Eucharist.
For Mary, they continuously forget the multiple verses where Jesus claims children are already innocent. Which means that Mary would not have needed to be anything special other than her most important role as the human part of bringing Jesus into this world.
For the Eucharist it is simply symbolism Jesus wanted to make sure his disciples understood that he was giving his life for them on the cross as a sacrifice for their sins.
If the bread/wine was sufficient he would not have needed to die in the cross next. Which is consistent with earlier scripture as Jesus uses a lot of symbolism even including the star in which Jesus was born under.
Now is their current interpretation necessarily bad. It's hard to say.
I mean Jesus literally did say Mathew 26: 26-30 that the bread was his body and the drink was his blood of the covenant.
With that in mind, doing what you're told from God is not sinning. Sinning is separating yourself from what God wants.
It doesn't hurt to expand your understanding, but you don't necessarily need to either. Christianity is probably the simplest religion. Believe in Jesus's sacrifice for your sins and go to heaven.
You can always read more into anything, but it's not necessarily required.
The Catholic Church fills the fundamental role of guiding people through Christianity, while other protestant churches encourage self-guidance.
Some people do not necessarily have the ability or desire to understand reality for themselves and this is why the Catholic church is important to help them. It's good to meet people at all levels.
Jesus gave the apostles the ability to heal other through the Holy Spirit. He also gave certain people the ability through the Holy Spirit to change the bread and wine into the body and blood in order to receive Christ.
Thank you God for this way of taking you in
[John 6]
Jesus said to them to literally eat His flesh and blood. He reiterated this many times. So most disciples left Him.
This is whats happening to christian religion. They reject the sacrifice of Bread a and Wine which is literally the body and blood of Christ.
[Luke] gospel Jesus said in the last supper to DO THIS IN MEMORY OF HIM
Well thankfully we have the word of Jesus himself that it IS his body and blood, not in the biological sense but in essence, in substance, in meaning. And considering the eucharistic miracles where the host has actually become flesh...im pretty confident in the church's position on this one
Some Christians, I truly don’t understand. Especially in the way they have removed the esoteric teachings and understanding of gnosis, neosis, kabbalah, hermetic teachings, and other things. The cornerstones that built the religion from the beginning-for example, kabbalah, which is the law that Moses received from God on the mountain, and Sefer Yirah and Yetzirah, which were passed down from king to king. One of these kings was Abraham, and even Jesus was taught this knowledge in Egypt to become a king there. This misdirection within Christianity leads people away from this knowledge that the higher men received and has to do with the kingdom that grew within the Roman Empire, power, and the global information war over who founded what. And these people scare others from knowing the truth. They have tarnished the knowledge of Christian magic, wisdom, and full understanding. Holy books have been burned, people have been killed by these leaders within Christianity long ago, and then the evidence has been obscured. Books on sacred knowledge were copied, rewritten with misinformation, and then despised by followers. It has gone so far that cosmic and microcosmic worship has been distorted. Before the Roman Empire took over global power through religion, people worshiped the sun, summer, life, the euphoria of love, generation, knowledge, understanding, and mastery (Y,H,V,H ELOHIM). No one who believed back then suffered from the sorrow of death, for they knew the truth about "I Am" and the eternal life that is constantly transforming. But now Christians worship the moon, death, suffering, sorrow, hope ... the cross. And they do not believe in the eternal transformative life we go through via the elements (gas, liquid, solid, and energy) or the holy master who sees us and to whom we can speak directly in our own tongue. (HERMES TRISMEGISTUS) - translation The hidden threefold magician/master. Christians nowadays discourage anyone from seeking the Creator on their own because they have orders from their higher-ups (priests, and the priests who have orders from God, an order that came from the kings) to serve the kingdom.
Moses saw this in the form of the burning bush, the tree of knowledge. He knew that the knowledge would be destroyed for the weak by the strong.
The bread and wine are the body and blood of Christ SIMBOLICALLY. The Eucharist is a ceremony established by Jesus for us to become his children, as if we were his own flesh and blood thus directly related to him.
Why would Jesus even say that it’s His Body when it’s not? Jesus changed water in to wine. Jesus fed thousands with 5 loaves of bread. Jesus loves us so much He is with us physically here on earth, we actually can eat the Lamb of God.
I’m not catholic (obviously). I’m an ascetic Vaisnava monk (you could call it Hindu). Our scriptures teach something similar. Food that is cooked with devotion and love of God, and offered to God with love, we consider to be non-different from God Himself. It’s so wonderful seeing other traditions expressions of principles that are transcendental to time, place, circumstance, and dogma.
Amen❤
Amen
John 6:66
66 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him.
The disciples that refused to believe Jesus. How ironic 666 Antichrist or Against Christ.
Although us Lutherans aren't transsubsantiasts like you guys, we'll stand side by side with you proclaiming that IS His body and that IS His blood. Give credit where credit's due, since Martin Luther was getting sooo frustrated with Zwingli at Marbury for denying the true presence and had to remind him, "HOC EST..."
I tried to wrap my head around the differences between "real presence" and "transubstantiation" in the eucharist using Ai to organize my thoughts and I ended up conceding that I need to stop arguing what "is" is. Lol
Catholics believe what Christ actually declared in John 6! We were not among His disciples who decided to walk away because what Jesus was saying was hard. We are part of those who stayed and believed!