I’m not stating someone else’s thoughts. I’m stating my own thoughts based on what I’ve seen and heard.
Generally, the way I’ve heard it is in a backhanded way: “If you don’t receive the real Eucharist, then you can’t maintain a Christian life. And if you can’t maintain a Christian life, then you’ll be lost.”
So, it’s more often picked up in the technicalities and not in the generalities.
>>I’m stating my own thoughts based on what I’ve seen and heard.<<
And I’m stating a fact. You are not Catholic. Period.
There are many ways one can cease being a Christian.
We consider baptism necessary, but not sufficient for salvation. Many baptized persons will fall.
There are 12 points in the Apostles’ Creed, and a body of doctrine which Catholics must accept in order remain Catholic.
People like Kennedy and Pelosi and Kerry, who were apparently validly baptized, excommunicated themselves by publicly promoting abortion. Unless they publicly denounce that abomination, they are outside the Catholic Church.
Since they have put themselves outside of the Catholic Church by their own arrogant and blasphemous actions, they cannot be considered Christian or Catholic.
They do not seek Christ’s will, but their own.
We all know the struggles of the world and the struggles to maintain lives that reflect God’s expectations for us.
The Eucharist does strengthen our souls, and aids us in doing God’s will.
When Jesus told the people about the Eucharist (John 6:35-40), many of them were shocked. They knew what He was saying, and many did not believe Him.
So, He repeated Himself (John 6:41-51).
The Jews continued to argue: “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” “So Jesus said to them,
Truly,truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you,
he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. ....”(John 6: 52-59)
Many of Jesus’ followers got His meaning, but would not accept it. So, they left. Jesus chastised the group, and asked the apostles if they, too, would leave Him over His teaching on the Eucharist. But, the twelve remained.
(John 6:60-71)