Iscool, read the words I posted from the Holy Word of God, above. Ask yourself who knows better: John, the Lord’s beloved friend and Apostle, or Iscool? I’ll follow the words of the former. Not trying to sound snide, either. But each and EVERY Catholic MUST, as a part of their being Catholic, accept this dogmatic Truth.
But the records show that the majority of Catholics do not believe it is literal...
[64] The flesh profiteth nothing: Dead flesh separated from the spirit, in the gross manner they supposed they were to eat his flesh, would profit nothing. Neither doth man’s flesh, that is to say, man’s natural and carnal apprehension, (which refuses to be subject to the spirit, and words of Christ,) profit any thing. But it would be the height of blasphemy, to say the living flesh of Christ (which we receive in the blessed sacrament, with his spirit, that is, with his soul and divinity) profiteth nothing. For if Christ’s flesh had profited us nothing, he would never have taken flesh for us, nor died in the flesh for us.
You guys eat Jesus' spirit, soul and divinity as well???