Nothing about anyone offering bread...
It will become for us the bread of life. (John 6:35)
Joh 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Uh, not according to Jesus it won't...
Jesus says HE is the bread...He never told anyone to bake some bread and then Jesus would turn it into him...
Priest: Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Through your goodness we have this wine to offer, fruit of the vine and work of human hands. It will become our spiritual drink. (Luke 22:17-18)
Luk 22:17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
Luk 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
Now that's not at all what Jesus says or even infers...
You mean to tell me that your priest stands there and tells the congregation things that are completely false???
Priest: Pray, brethren, that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father. (Heb. 12:28)
Heb 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Maybe you forget...You're not talking to a bunch of Catholics...WE OWN BIBLES...We can and do check your religion out to see if it is telling the truth...
And we can see right here that it is not...
People: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name, for our sake and the good of all his Church. (Ps 50:23)
Psa 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
There is NOTHING in that verse about a sacrifice of bread and wine...And it is directed at individuals, not your Church...
he took bread and gave you thanks. He broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: Take this all of you, and eat it: this is my body which will be given up for you. When supper was ended, he took the cup. Again he gave thanks and praise, gave the cup to his disciples, and said: Take this, all of you, and drink from it: this is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant. It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven. Do this is memory of me. (Mark 14:22-25)
Gave who thanks???
Mar 14:22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body.
Mar 14:23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.
Mar 14:24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Mar 14:25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.
Priest: In memory of his death and resurrection, we offer you, Father, this life-giving bread, this saving cup. (John 6:51)
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
Nobody offers God bread and claims it is Jesus...You don't offer the sacrifice; God offered the sacrifice to you...There is absolutely nothing in what your priest says that references John 6:51...
I love when ex-Catholics say this, I really have to laugh, becasue it tells me they just never listened.
Obviously they did listen...And then they went to God to find out if they were being lied to...And then they left...And more will leave for the same reason...
It's there in black and white.
And exactly WHY would the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross not be acceptable to God?
It WAS God's idea in the first place.
Jesus said that no man takes His life but that He offers it willingly. Priests speak and act like they are offering Jesus to God as a sacrifice on our behalf begging him to accept Him, as if they're not sure he's not good enough.
There's so much wrong with that picture that it's hard to know where to begin.
At lease we have moved past that nonsense about Catholics never reading the Bible or having anything Scriptural in their Liturgy. The new complain now is apparently that we have too much. You ought to see how goofy you guys look from the high ground.
Peace be with you.