[CA Conservative]

Jesus was holding bread and wine and both are edible...He transubsstantiated them into His Body and Blood and told us what He was doing and instructed us to "DO THIS"...we do.

IF the bread and the wine were to be transformed into the literal body and blood of Christ, then it follows that this would occur when anyone observed Communion. There was never anything in Scripture to indicate that the bread and wine had to be specially blessed by a priest or go through some special ritual - Jesus just said, "do this in remembrance of me". So the argument that anyone taking Communion outside of the Catholic Church would not receive the true "body and blood of Christ" is specious at best.

[Elsie]

Jesus just said, "do this in remembrance of me".

Why are we not discussing what THIS is?

[terycarl]

IF the bread and the wine were to be transformed into the literal body and blood of Christ, then it follows that this would occur when anyone observed Communion.

No it doesn't. Protestant ability to do that ended in Luthers time when they ran out of Catholic Bishops who had the authority and lineage to ordain priests.