**You keep going over minor matters and ignore the words of salvation, “Whoever eats* my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. “**
If that is LITERALLY true, then once should LITERALLY be enough, instead of gobbling every time you set foot in your church house.
Does it wear off? Is it time release? Or has it become a way to keep folks coming to be indoctrinated?.... indoctrinated to the point of reverencing statues that don’t look like Mary or Jesus Christ; practices that resemble the behavior of pagans.
It is spreading the Good News of God’s salvation.
It should be repeated for those who claim to be interested in their salvation. Perhaps it offends those whose minds are already set, but Jesus told us to spread the Good News to all nations.
I see the benefits of giving the Body and Blood of Jesus to Catholics, and I hope more people will be able to receive the Eucharist and the graces thereof.
Again many protestors do not understand the difference between idolatry and use of visual images to spread the Good News. They just use this to attack the Catholic Church when they have similar images in their own churches.
“People who oppose religious statuary forget about the many passages where the Lord commands the making of statues. For example: “And you shall make two cherubim of gold [i.e., two gold statues of angels]; of hammered work shall you make them, on the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end; of one piece of the mercy seat shall you make the cherubim on its two ends. The cherubim shall spread out their wings above, overshadowing the mercy seat with their wings, their faces one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be” (Ex. 25:18–20). “
“Catholics use statues, paintings, and other artistic devices to recall the person or thing depicted. Just as it helps to remember one’s mother by looking at her photograph, so it helps to recall the example of the saints by looking at pictures of them. Catholics also use statues as teaching tools. In the early Church they were especially useful for the instruction of the illiterate. Many Protestants have pictures of Jesus and other Bible pictures in Sunday school for teaching children. Catholics also use statues to commemorate certain people and events, much as Protestant churches have three-dimensional nativity scenes at Christmas. “
“The Church absolutely recognizes and condemns the sin of idolatry. What anti-Catholics fail to recognize is the distinction between thinking a piece of stone or plaster is a god and desiring to visually remember Christ and the saints in heaven by making statues in their honor. The making and use of religious statues is a thoroughly biblical practice. Anyone who says otherwise doesn’t know his Bible.”
https://www.catholic.com/tract/do-catholics-worship-statues
It is one thing to falsely accuse and another to apologize for a false statement.
Your comment:”If that is LITERALLY true, then once should LITERALLY be enough, instead of gobbling every time you set foot in your church house.”
So how often do you Pray the Our Father?
“Give us this day our daily bread...”
Did you ever make the connection to the Body and Blood of Jesus that He gave us at the Last Supper?
God’s Peace be with you.
“Whoever eats* my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. “**
Your comment: “If that is LITERALLY true...”
While not well known there are many instances, including:
1) Lanciano, Italy 8th century a priest-monk celebrating Mass with recurrent doubts about the Real Presence of our Lord as he had just spoken the solemn words of Consecration when the host was suddenly changed into a circle of flesh, and the wine was transformed into visible blood.
Upon several examinations, the latest scientific one in 1970
determined that the flesh was identified as striated muscular tissue of the myocardium (heart wall), having no trace whatsoever of any agents for the preservation of flesh.
Both blood and flesh were determined to be human with type AB blood. While both had been conserved in receptacles and not hermetically sealed, they were not damaged. The Body and Blood of Jesus can be observed in the upper tabernacle at the Church of St Francis.
2)Brussels, Belgium 1370. On Good Friday April 4, 1370 some Jews assembled in their synagogue with 15 hosts. Laying on a table inflicted both verbal and physical abuse including the stabbing of the hosts with knives. Immediately, before the stunned eyes, blood flowed from the stab wounds. There is more to the story.
3)Stich, West Germany 1970 (2 miracles)Tuesday June 9, 1970 The priest after the Consecration noticed on the corporal next to the Chalice a small reddish spot that grew to the size of a coin and another stain where the chalice has been placed. The cloths were examined at a local clinic by 4 separate professionals and they determined that it was human blood and one indicated that it was from a man in agony.
On July 14, 1970 the same Swiss priest at the same Stich Chapel said Mass after checking that the altar cloths were absolutely clean. However after consecration, 4 spots appeared. One was the size of a priest’s host with a cross was visible on it.
4) Siena, Italy 1730 Consecrated Hosts stolen from the Basilica of St. Francis in year 1730. The Hosts have remained fresh and incorrupt for over 250 years.
There are many more incidents over the centuries and some very recently in Poland, Mexico and Argentina.
One shouldn’t need a miracle to believe the Words of Jesus as both literal and true.