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To: Petronski; sitetest; Mad Dawg; boatbums; NoGrayZone; Quix; caww; Dr. Eckleburg; annalex; ...
Holy Eucharist IS God Himself.

Would you mind expanding a little on that? If you said God is love or God is truth I could nod my head in agreement. Or, if you said that the Eucharist is a ritual sacrament which includes the presence of God I could say that is my understanding of the Catholic belief. However, I've never heard that the Holy Eucharist IS God Himself.

3,575 posted on 01/16/2010 12:58:19 AM PST by Forest Keeper ((It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.))
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To: Forest Keeper; Petronski; sitetest; Mad Dawg; boatbums; NoGrayZone; Quix; caww; Dr. Eckleburg; ...
I've never heard that the Holy Eucharist IS God Himself.

The Holy Eucharist is Christ, so yes.

3,624 posted on 01/16/2010 8:55:18 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: Forest Keeper

THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO THEM:

John O’Brien, “The Faith of millions:”

“When the priest announces the tremendous words of consecration, he reaches up into the heavens, brings Christ down from His throne, and places Him upon our altar to be offered up again as the Victim for the sins of man. It is a power greater than that of Seraphim and Cherubim. Indeed it is greater even than the power of the Virgin Mary. While the Blessed Virgin was the human agency by which Christ became incarnate a single time, the priest brings Christ down from heaven, and renders Him present on our altar as the eternal Victim for the sins of man-not once but a thousand times! The priest speaks and lo! Christ, the eternal and omnipotent God, bows his head in humble obedience to the priest’s command.”


3,671 posted on 01/16/2010 9:53:08 AM PST by esquirette (If we do not know our own worldview, we will accept theirs.)
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