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ALL what the Church does as part of its liturgical and ritual practices, and beliefs in communion with Christ, the saints, and its martyrs.

So you have shown you have a relationship with your religious institution, not Jesus Christ...

In the Eucharist, Catholics have the Living Body and Blood of Christ as He Himself promised during His time on earth and the Last Supper.

It's a piece of bread and wine...

Even if it did come to life and you ate it, that's not a relationship with the Risen Savior...You must have communication...

No one is saying that the “the leading of the Holy Spirit is absurd.” Rather, because of the diverse and often contradictory beliefs of Protestants and Episcopalians, each cannot claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit. That would make the Holy Spirit a contradiction unto itself.

Surely, the congregations of Joel Osteen, Jimmy Swaggart; Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Billy Graham, and hundreds of your neighborhood local Foursquare Churches cannot each claim to be guided by the Holy Spirit.

Well of course they can...God gave us all a spiritual instruction book...God does not force anyone to follow the instructions...Some follow it more than others...

Some don't want to believe the book...Some decide they are smarter than the book, reject it and become Catholic teachers...

Agains shallow Bible Christianity is in full display.

The Catholic Church is founded by Christ- ONE Church, ONE truth for ALL time.

You say God gave us all “a spiritual instruction book.”

This is ridiculous nonsense at its most absurd level. There was NO book given by Christ, at least not until the fourth century when the books were infallibly assembled by the Catholic Church. That infallible teaching did not evaporate eleven centuries later with the Reformation. So for fifteen centuries the followers of the Catholic Church, its theologians, saints, and martyrs all got it wrong on this “spiritual instruction book”?

And as if things can’t get more ridiculous, you say: “Some follow it more than others.”

So “you” know exactly what it says as opposed to Joel Osteen, Billy Graham, Rev. Wright? And what about those eminent Protestant theologians who after a lifetime of study and teaching followed this “spiritual instruction book” and converted to Catholicism?

So Augustine, Aquinas, Newman, and Benedict all got it wrong about this “spiritual instruction book” including the early Church Fathers who assembled this “spiritual instruction book.”?

I am getting a bit dizzy here. I have to stop.