I AM Catholic, by Pat Miron
POINT #4. It is necessary to point out that denial of this Truth on which the entirety of Christianity rest, is factually a “Denial of God Himself.”
The One unforgivable sin. [Luke 12:10] The reality of Christ Real presence can ONLY be grasped,
and accepted through the red-tinted glasses of God’s Love for
His created Humanity.
Nothing Good is impossible for God. Manna,
[signifying bread] ,the quail, [signifying meat-flesh], water
[signifying life]. from the Rock and the First Miracle in Cana;
transforming one substance [water] into another substance [wine]; ALL
point to the “Real Presence” and God’s ability to do it.
This God sought Personal relationship is no more evident than in
Catholic Holy Communion. Where [Catholic] humanity not only MEETS our
God; but in a real sense becomes One WITH our God and thus consummates
the MOST INTIMATE of all possible personal relationships.
POINT #7 Matthew 26: 26-28
And
whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke:
and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body.
And taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and gave to them, saying: Drink
ye all of this. For this is my blood of the new testament,
which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins.
POINT #8 MARK 14: 22-24
And
whilst they were eating, Jesus took bread; and blessing, broke, and
gave to them, and said: Take ye. This is my body. And having taken the
chalice, giving thanks, he gave it to them. And they all drank of it. And he said to them: This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many.
Point #9 Luke 22: 19-21
And
taking bread, he gave thanks, and brake; and gave to them, saying: This
is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me.
In like manner the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is
the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.
Point # 10 Paul 1 Cor.11: 23-29
For
I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that
the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this
do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after
he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood:
this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until he come.
POINT # 11 Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord
. But let a man prove himself: [to be worthy of the privilege] and
so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that
eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks judgment to himself”
It is an impossibility that Paul could have uttered these words of Grave Spiritual warning,
IF
he were NOT knowingly speaking of the Transubstantiation of ordinary
bread and wine into the very Real, now Glorified Body, Blood, Soul and
Divinity of Jesus Christ.
One is not “condemned for consuming ONLY
ordinary bread and wine!”
POINT # 12 The term applied to the practice of the Eucharist begin as
“The Breaking of the Bread”
Acts.2: 42, 46 “And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes,
they partook of food with glad and generous hearts, so it is evident
that the Teaching of Christ was both CORRECTLY understood, and accepted
and put into practice immediately after His Death. The first “churches” were peoples homes.
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