They are alive.
Lost argument Annalex....the Apostles and Peter are not here on earth...they died a physical death and are home with the Lord.
One can "believe" the departed are accessible to us...and the enemy of men's souls delights to assist in that masquerade as it keeps Christ off His rightful throne as the only mediator between God and man. But "believing' does not mean it's reality.
There are many false assumptions made today on mans ability to speak or be enticed into the spiritual realm. But know this..whosoever attempts so is on a slippery slope that leads away from Christ...just a matter of time.
No. Dying here on earth.
Or are you going to apply the usual hypocritical Catholic double standard of interpreting one phrase in a passage of Scripture as literal, the next phrase as figurative, the next phrase as metaphorical, the next phrase literal again, etc.?
If Catholics are going to insist on the literal meaning of the body and blood statements, then in the spirit of honest interpretation done with integrity and consistency, then ALL of the passage must be interpreted in the same sense.
This business the Catholic church does of interpreting one section one way and another one a different way all in the name of supporting Catholic doctrine is inherently dishonest to the core.
If Catholicism is going to demand a literal word for word interpretation of the body and blood statements, that they in actuality become the literal physical flesh and blood of Christ and that people have to actually, literally eat the actual literal flesh and blood of Jesus, in the interest of honesty and integrity, the sections that say that he who eats will never die, MUST mean that physical death does not occur.
It is the height of intellectual dishonesty to insist that it refers only to spiritual death when the demand is made for the rest of the passage to be taken literally and physically, and not spiritually.
Everyone who has died a physical death is alive somewhere.
Even those who never ate communion as you say must be done.
Try again.
Even though some still say the creeds, for many outside the Church, the meaning of Communion of Saints has been lost.
Judas? If Judas didn't partake of the Last Supper none of the Apostles did.