Yes.
But I’ve always wondered how they’ve managed to take a YEARLY rememberance meal and turn it into something that happens every time you enter the doors of their churches.
LOL, you have a point there. I disagree with the Saints being prayed to.
Did you read the reasoning above? It answers your question.
Wlsie,
This is one instance of where Protestants think the biblical language is only symbolic and Catholics think of it as very literal.
“Do this in remembrance of me.”
What don’t you like about these words of Christ? We take them seriously!
The Jewish Pentecost is yearly. The Eucharist is celebrated more frequently because it is the communion with our Lord and God whose Body and Blood we are commanded to eat and drink. John 6: gets into it pretty good.
http://www.scripturecatholic.com/the_eucharist.html
is a verse dump with a long list of proofs from the OT, the Gospels and Paul. But for frequency, it leans upon 1 Corinthians 11:23-29.
But I’ve always wondered how they’ve managed to take a YEARLY rememberance meal and turn it into something that happens every time you enter the doors of their churches.
The answer comes from John 6.
John 6:32 Then Jesus said to them: "Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."
48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate manna in the desert, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven: that if any man eat of it, he may not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 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."
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"
53 Then Jesus said to them: "Amen, amen, I say unto you: unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 54 He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I will raise him up in the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father has sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, the same also shall live by me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers ate manna and are dead. He that eats this bread shall live for ever."
(You can read the rest of John 6 for yourself, I didn't want to post more than the above and needlessly waste bandwidth)
The Eucharist is absolutely tied to the manna from heaven. Did God only feed His people manna once a year when they wandered the desert for 40 years?
Not trying to start an argument, rather, just trying to answer your question that you've posed on more than one thread.
BTW, did you ever ponder the significance of the items that were placed inside the tabernacle? (Heb 9:4)