Really?
Yes, Really...
I'll post it again...Here are the words and scripture reference you guys use in your Eucharistic prayer:
Priest: In memory of his death and resurrection, we offer you, Father, this life-giving bread, this saving cup. (John 6:51)
Now compare John 6:51 in the scriptures...
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. (6:52) If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.
And this is from your own Catholic, Saint Jerome...
Jesus gave the Sacrifice...Jesus offered the flesh and blood...Your priests nor your church are involved except in receiving it...You can not offer it to God...He offers it to you...
Now, can you address THAT instead of rambling on about what your church has taught for thousands of years???
Oh, that’s an easy question.
At the time in the mass the priest says: “In memory of his death and resurrection ...etc etc “ it is bread and wine, and not yet the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
“Now, can you address THAT instead of rambling on about what your church has taught for thousands of years???”
Sure...the Fathers who established the canon of the NT, including John, believed what I believe, not what you believe. In fact, no Christian believed what you believe until about 500 years ago...and those people went to great lengths to disagree with anything Rome believed so their sincerity must be questioned.
But I’ll tell you what, read Homily XLVI on John by +John Chrysostomos. He specifically addresses this very verse in the 4th century.