What i believe is what i see in Scripture and in effect. As regards the latter here, I was a RC, a weekly participant, a CCD teacher and lector, and believed in good faith that the Eucharist was the Real Presence, and received it conscience permitting. And i even rationalized the evangelical preachers that i heard and who blessed me so much must be eating it to have such anointing.
But receiving the Eucharist or not had no real effect on me, or the multitudes whom i knew and saw receive it. Most were as dead as i was before i become born again by real repentance and faith in Christ to save me, and which effected a profound change in my heart and life .
That is when i received spiritual life in myself, as per Jn. 6:53, not in physically eating, which is never how anyone received spiritual life in themselves.
And and to eat and thus live by Jesus is to do as He did, "As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me," (John 6:57) which was not by physically eating the Father, but by living by every word which came from Him. (Mt. 4:4) making doing His will to be the Lord's "meant." (Jn. 4:34)
A RC would get far more out of listening to some good evangelical preaching than looking for spiritual life by physically eating.
While what you say is true as far as it goes, chapter 6 in Saint John, at least for the devout Catholic, takes precedence to the excellence of some really nice protestant messages, which are generally more motivating by miles.
But, the wonderful message is not the Precious Body and Precious Blood of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
We are desperate for spirit filled priests speaking to the spirit filled scrpture readings that are heard every Sunday. Many give milk endlessly, like Ted with his first reader. :)
“A RC would get far more out of listening to some good evangelical preaching than looking for spiritual life by physically eating. “
So you have chosen the NON-Belief of JUDAS over what Jesus explicitly taught? Seems to be a major LOGIC FAIL. What part of “unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no life within you” don’t you get?
Hint: If Jesus is God, and supposedly your protestant sect teaches that, then what He says is TRUE and who are you to question it?
Do you know that people have survived on the Holy Eucharist for days upon days? No other food. Just the Eucharist.