From Pastor to Parishioner: My Love for Christ Led Me Home (to the Catholic Church)

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[Running On Empty]

Perhaps it’s a good thing for all of us who receive Holy Communion to remember the words of St. Paul:

“For I have received of the Lord that which I also 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 in 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 this chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord, until He come.’

Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord UNWORTHILY, shall be guilty of the Body and the Blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh UNWORTHILY eateth and drinketh judgnment to himself, NOT DISCERNING the Body of the Lord.” 1Cor.11:23-29

Partaking of the Eucharist does not save us, if we have done so unworthily. Rather, it serves to our judgment.

There shouldn’t be any semblance of flippant referral to this great Mystery.

I’m aware that you are no longer Catholic.

[tioga]

Oops. Sorry. Thanks.

[Suzy Quzy]

Are you Catholic? I’m guessing you aren’t and won’t answer me.

[Suzy Quzy]

Where did you get your ignorance from? You sadly have been taught incorrect things about the Catholic Church. What religion are you??

[Iscool]

Where did you get your ignorance from?

Now there's a typical Catholic rebuttal...

What religion are you??

There are only two kinds...The right one and the wrong ones...I'm of the right one...

[Suzy Quzy]

Are you afraid to say what religious denomination you are? Why? I’m a Catholic and am proud....why aren’t you?

[armydoc]

Are you Catholic? I’m guessing you aren’t and won’t answer me.

Of course I'll answer you. I am not now Catholic, though I was Catholic for the first twenty years of my life.

My previous point was, of course, that if you are going to argue that Scripture teaches for the authenticity of the Eucharist as the literal flesh of Christ and its necessity for salvation, then John 6:51 clearly declares its sufficiency for salvation.

[Suzy Quzy]

The Scripture is right there, in Jesus’s own words. What YOU choose to do is your business and your eternity. I pray for your journey....Catholicism is not easy but it IS the Church that Jesus gave to Peter and the Apostles.

[armydoc]

The Scripture is right there, in Jesus’s own words.

Right, my point exactly. Jesus, in John 6:51, is declaring the Eucharist's sufficiency for salvation, correct?

[Suzy Quzy]

The Eucharist is NOT the only thing for salvation....receiving it in the state of grace is.....because that encompasses ALL Christian beliefs.

[xzins]

literal flesh of Christ

They are selectively literal.

Jesus also said, "These words are SPIRIT, and they are life."

[armydoc]

The Eucharist is NOT the only thing for salvation

If you are not going to take "If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever" literally, then you have a problem with taking the authenticity and necessity passages literally. That is, if your argument is going to be based in scripture, anyway.

....receiving it in the state of grace is.....because that encompasses ALL Christian beliefs.

So receiving the Eucharist is necessary for salvation, then?

[Suzy Quzy]

Of course...and I DO take it as the MOST serious thing I do.....because IT is.

[armydoc]

Of course...and I DO take it as the MOST serious thing I do.....because IT is.

Your Church teaches that Protestants can be saved. How is this possible apart from the Eucharist?

[Iscool]

So if Osama BL shows up at your church tomorrow, eats the wafer (flesh) and gets sprinkled, he’s then a saved Catholic...According to your church and the scripture...

Or if he even walks by a baby being sprinkled and some of the holy water splashes on him, he’s good to go, according to scripture...

[Iscool]

Are you afraid to say what religious denomination you are? Why? I’m a Catholic and am proud....why aren’t you?

Why are you concerned??? I am a Bible Believing Christian...I have been saved by the grace of God, without works because there's nothing in the world I could do to merit salvation on my own...

I called on Jesus to become my Saviour and I was later correctly baptized in water to show the death, buriel and ressurection of myself and Jesus Christ...

I do not continually sacrifice Jesus Christ and put him to an open shame...I do not drink eat his flesh and drink his blood...No need to...He has already become the sacrifice, once for all...

I have no intention of nailing him again to the cross...He is not on the cross...Never will be again...

That's my denomination...It's good enough for me and good enough for God...

BTW, how much scripture do you guys have to ingnore and throw out to cling to your religious rituals??? It hasn't gone unnoticed that you people can't respond to scripture that is presented to you that shows you are mistaken in your beliefs...

[Suzy Quzy]

I guess you are afraid to say what denomination.....wonder why. Don’t write me back until you can answer my very easy question.

[Iscool]

I am catholic...The original catholic...

[Suzy Quzy]

You can call yourself anything you want to. What Church do you attend? Oh....you don;t attend, do you???

[Siobhan]

Yes. Foursquare was Aimee's church. It is also the church of Pastor Jack Hayford who wrote the praise chorus "Majesty" among other things.

As one who prefers Chant, I have no idea how on earth I came to learn that little factoid.