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Yes, I've read the Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Eucharist. This belief contradicts Scripture. The article states that no bread is eaten, that the bread becomes body alone. The article states that we taste bread because only the accidents of bread are left, but not the presence of bread. I guess this is a better answer than saying "If you taste bread, then your senses are lying to you." (This was the answer during the dark ages I think.)

1 Corinthians 11 states repeatedly that we eat bread.

Verse 26 For as often as you eat this bread
Verse 27 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread
Verse 27 eat of the bread

I guess you could state, like adiaireton8, that RCC tradition superseeds Scripture. Post 539

But is seems pretty clear that Paul states that we eat bread. Please tell me how I am not understanding 1 Corinthians 11.

1 Cor 11 also states that some members of the church were getting drunk during communion (verse 21). So if no wine is left, how does the body get drunk?

The Catholic Encyclopedia article on the Eucharist says that only the accidents of bread and wine are left and these accidents only affect the senses of the body. But getting drunk is not a sense, it is a chemical reaction.

So if it looks like wine, tastes like wine, affects the body like wine, it must be wine. But it is also the true blood of Christ; He said so! I don't understand it. It is a mystery of God.

1 Cor 11
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For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread,
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and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, "This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
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In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
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For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
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Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord.
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A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup.
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For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.

Jesus said "This is my Body" ... "This cup is the new covenant in my blood."