Because I remember the PANIC that ran through the building whenever the so-called “priest” fumbled the dry, cardboard wafer and it fell on the floor.
“Don’t TOUCH! You’ll go straight to limbo!!”
(“How LOW can you GO?”)
I guess the “communicant” coulda licked it off the floor and not suffer extra penance prayer pain.
These are questions that NEED answers. These are questions that have eternal impact.
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Stupid questions need not be answered, Regis.
An you sure are full of them.
Christ is present in the bread and wine, He said so. I believe Christ whether anyone has the mechanism of that taking place accurately worked out or not. Believing that I am eating His body and drinking His blood is an act of faith, not proof that I believe there is a scientifically clear explanation of how that change takes place or at what point that change takes place.
Christ and the Apostles made it very clear that we're to live by faith, not by having our personal understanding satisfied. In fact, I'd say that a good part of the weight of our cross in this modern world is the burden of believing things we cannot prove. The whole world pretends they believe that only what we can see, touch, measure, and prove scientifically, is real. Believing what Christ said is a real burden in that sort of world, especially when so many people either mock what Christ said or go to great lengths to explain why what Christ said isn't what you think He said
Jesus in John 6 says words that are clear
1. God will feed the multitudes
2. I am God - I can walk on water
3. Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life,[o] which the Son of Man will give you
4. This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent
5. my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
6. I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger,
7. I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
8. unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 54 Whoever eats[s] my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
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He is crystal clear - and He emphasizes that this is not an allegory, but repeats thrice that this is what you are to do - eat of His Body and drink of His blood