Tell me, Catholic, why must you keep eating if you receive eternal life with the first bite? Is there an amount you must consume eventually adding up to eternal life? Did you ignore what Jesus siad that those who eat will never hunger? When a man dies, is there an accounting of how much of Jesus they have eaten? How did the thief on the cross get a nibble if eating the flesh is so vital? And finally, again Jesus tells us the flesh profiteth nothng. It is the spirit that gives life and the words He spoke were spirit and life. You have to work hard to twist that plain teaching into the pagan practice central to catholiciism.
Avoiding answering the central question regarding which Jesus do you believe your priests serve to you, which Jesus are you eating, Catholic?
I’m eating the body, blood, soul and divinity of the historical, true Jesus because if you do not then you have no life within you. That is why St. Paul stated that so many were sick or dead because they ate unworthy. If it was just a symbol (like it is in protestant churches) then it would mean nothing and have no impact. This is what the church fathers and the Church have taught for 2000 years, long before some rebels decided they knew better than the successors of the Apostles.
So which protestant are you who apparently know the “real” teachings of Jesus? Are you:
Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian
Mormon
Unitarian
Church of Christ
Jehovah’s witnesses
Pentacostal
Fundamentalist
Charasmstic....
Or one of the 30,000 plus and growing denominations who claim they’re the church?
Come home to the one true faith.