[Wonder Warthog]

"The passage says Paul broke bread. PERIOD."

The "breaking of bread" IS the Mass, PERIOD. The problem with Protestants is they don't believe the Bible, despite their constant "protestation" that it is the whole basis of their worship.

[100American]

So when Jesus broke bread with his Apostles he was performing a Mass as the Catholic Church does.

Pretty impossible as Peter who was the first “Pope” was one of the Apostles yet I cannot find any reference in any scripture of the rituals of this church being mandated or performed other than by their members post the creation of it.

[Salvation]

Read about Justin Martyr in the book Four Witnesses

[mrobisr]

“The “breaking of bread” IS the Mass, PERIOD.”

Sorry, but nowhere in Holy Scripture is communion the
re-crucifixion of Jesus Christ. That was the invention of Satan and his roman church.

[daniel1212]

The "breaking of bread" IS the Mass, PERIOD. The problem with Protestants is they don't believe the Bible, despite their constant "protestation" that it is the whole basis of their worship.

Really? So just where do we see distinctive Catholic teachings manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation. http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/deformation_of_new_testament_church.html#Table

Just where do we see the distinctive Catholic Eucharist in Acts - or any-where in the rest of the NT record - that of priests (only) conducting it, and offering it as a sacrifice for sins, and presenting it as spiritual food? Where?

More, by God's grace:

The Lord's Supper: metaphorical commemoration or the consumption of the metaphysical "real" body and blood of the Lord Jesus?

(Note: allow scripts for pop up Bible verses

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Catholic teaching on the Eucharist

2. Metaphorical versus literal language

3. Supper accounts and John 6: Conformity to Scripture, and consequences of the literalistic interpretation.

4. 1Cor. 10,11

5. The Lord's Supper in the record and descriptions of the New Testament church

6. Purely literal versus the contrived Catholic interpretation

7. The nature of the Catholic metaphysical explanation

8. The Lord's Supper is not a sacrifice for sins

9. Absence of the sacerdotal Eucharistic priesthood

10. Metaphorical view of Jn. 6 is not new.

11. Endocannibalism

12. Conclusion