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Many here, including me, grew up Catholic but left by God’s leading
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boatbums, you left the Eucharist. I have found it. I could never give it up.
Wow, you left the Eucharist. It truly boggles my mind.
Please understand, I am not being unkind here. I am just amazed. That is something I have searched for all of my life and finally found and you and metmom gave it up.
Wow.
It doesn’t matter to me whether or not I agree with the teachings of the Catholic Church (though I do), I could not leave because of the Eucharist.
That is scary - “many here grew up Catholic but left by God’s leading”
Are you completely sure that it was “God” and not Satan that lead you out??
That would be where you are wrong. Hasn't anybody explained to you that almost all Christians celebrate the Lord's Supper? It is done, as he said, in remembrance of him. We partake of bread and grape juice as a body of believers that comes together in unity to praise the Lord for his grace and remembering and commemorating the sacrifice of his body and blood for our sins. We haven't "forsaken the Eucharist" at all in fact:
Eucharist, from Greek εὐχαριστία (eucharistia), means "thanksgiving". The verb εὐχαριστῶ, the usual word for "to thank" in the Septuagint and the New Testament, is found in the major texts concerning the Lord's Supper, including the earliest:
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." I Corinthians 11:23,24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist
What is the Eucharist to you...I ask this because most believers remain in a church because Jesus is central to their teachings...and equipping the saints.
It kind of depends on whether you see communion as the Eucharist, the actual, physical consuming of the body and blood of Christ and that it's necessary for salvation....
or not....
I see both baptism and communion as physical representations of spiritual realities, instituted for us because we humans need to have stuff kept before us and it's a great word picture reminding us of what we have experienced spiritually.
I (and I think bb and others) do not believe that these physical ceremonies CAUSE the spiritual reality to happen. The spiritual reality is a done deal. These show to the world what they are in terms that people can understand. We were commanded by Christ Himself to take communion *in remembrance* of Him and show His death until He comes- a word picture conveying both His first and second coming.
When you leave mass on Sundays..how have you grown in your knowledge of Christ? How are you holier? What has communion done for you?