**”Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you” (Jn 6:53).**
If taken literally (as your church seems to), once gives eternal life. Any more times is either vanity, or unbelief (that it didn’t give life the previous time).
One thing is for certain; the RCC teaching of the Lord’s supper does get the adherents to come to church, with various degrees of regularity, because they are taught it is the real deal. (When I was a young, single, unsaved 20something, I used to drop a friend off just in time for the ceremony. He would slip inside, get into line, eat the wafer, and slip out, usually saying something like, “Okay, lets go meet some girls”).
The Mass is regarded as a ‘cure all’ for all sins that the partaker chooses to keep on indulging in. Going out for a sin filled evening? No problem. Just keep going to Mass. I have another long time acquaintance (62 yrs old) that still holds that attitude. And another, that goes to Mass daily, yet is proudly liberal Dem. Apparently, she thinks that since she partakes daily, nomatter what her political views are, she’s ‘good to go’.
You didn’t answer my question.
The following link at FR was written specifically to you, dear One; please read it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3311956/posts?page=241#241