The Bread of Life

An example of the consecration of the Holy Eucharist when bread and wine (through the power of the Holy Spirit) are changed into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The Catholic Mass in it's essentials dates back to the time of the Apostles. An honest look at early Christianity will reveal that belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist was at the heart of the Christian faith from the very beginning.

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[bdplist]

AUGUSTINE

He admitted him to the Supper in which He committed and delivered to His disciples the FIGURE of His Body and Blood. on Psalm 3

The Lord did not hesitate to say: This is My Body, when He wanted to give a SIGN of His body Against Adimant

[The sacraments] bear the names of the realities which they RESEMBLE. As, therefore, in a certain MANNER the sacrament of Christ's body is Christ's body, and the sacrament of Christ's blood is Christ's blood Letter 98 to Boniface

[SacredHeartChurch]

Augustine Sermons 227

...I promised you, who have now been baptized, a sermon in which I would explain the Sacrament of the Lord's Table, which you now look upon and of which you last night were made participants. You ought to know what you have received, what you are going to receive, and what you ought to receive daily. That Bread which you see on the altar, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the Body of Christ.

[SacredHeartChurch]

Augustine Sermons 227 (cont.)

That chalice, or rather, what is in that chalice, having been sanctified by the word of God, is the Blood of Christ. Through that bread and wine the Lord Christ willed to commend His Body and Blood, which He poured out for us unto the forgiveness of sins. If you receive worthily, you are what you have received.

[SacredHeartChurch]

Augustine Sermons 272

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the Body of Christ and the chalice the Blood of Christ. ... How is the bread His Body? And the chalice, or what is in the chalice, how is it His Blood? Those elements, brethren, are called Sacraments, because in them one thing is seen, but another is understood.

[SacredHeartChurch]

Augustine (City of God 10,5; 10,20, c. 426)

Christ is both the Priest, offering Himself, and Himself the Victim. He willed that the sacramental sign of this should be the daily sacrifice of the Church, who, since the Church is His body and He the Head, learns to offer herself through Him.

[SacredHeartChurch]

P.S. You should really read the section in the current Cathechism of the Catholic church about what a sacrament is and in particular the Eucharist. I'm not sure you understand what the church actually teaches about this mystery. God bless.

[notofthisworld55]

CHRIST DID ESTABLISH SUCH A CHURCH, AND IT IS THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

When Christ left us and ascended into Heaven, He gave His powers to the Church He had founded: "All power has been given Me by My Father; go then" (in virtue of this power that I delegate 2 U) "teach all nations 2 keep My commandments. He who hears you, hears Me; he who despises U, despises Me" (Matt. 28:1&20; Luke 10:16). the Church is invested with the authority of Jesus Christ; she speaks & commands in Our Lord's name.

[gm2472]

If the Catholic Church is not the TRUE church of Jesus Christ then what are the 1 billion faithful worldwide doing? We are following Christ's real word "eat my flesh and drink my blood" How can 1 billion be wrong. The "Born Again"religions were not even present until well after the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic church has been in place since the apostles founded it after Christ's death.

[rockiesguy]

Read on further Corinthians Chap 1: 11 which goes on to say that Tradition of this Institution, This is the answer to The True vallue of both the cup & the wine. .

Here are the facts of the True Presence in both the body & blood.

[rockiesguy]

What a mess, what a slap in the face to those who believe in the true presence,

body , bolod , sou and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Eucharist becomes nothing here and this Catholic church should be sad to think it has brought about

the disrespect of our confused protestants below. Saf and might say These priests at this church most likely do not know this statement is made before the

filing of the video.

[kiwichristian2009]

@statementz What does rome have to do with anything? I trust in God and God alone, not the antichrist rcc.

[kiwichristian2009]

@SacredHeartChurch Exodus20:4-5. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth." Vs5 "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God." Isaiah 42:8 "I [am] the LORD: that [is] my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images."

[kiwichristian2009]

@SacredHeartChurch The Catechism of the Council of Trent states these words: "It is lawful to have images in the Church, and to give honor and worship unto them...".

The twenty-fifth session of the Council of Trent decrees that the images of Christ and the Virgin Mary, and of the other saints, are especially to be had and retained in the churches, and that honor and veneration are to be paid to them.

[kiwichristian2009]

@SacredHeartChurch Cardinal Newman admits in his book that; the temples, incense, oil lamps, votive offerings, holy water, Holidays, and seasons of devotion, processions, blessings of the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure (of priests, munks and nuns), images, and statues are all of PAGAN ORIGIN. -The Development of the Christian Religion Cardinal Newman p.359

[kiwichristian2009]

@SacredHeartChurch I'd rather read the Word of God.

[kiwichristian2009]

@bdplist Amen, my friend! Can any catholic provide a single example of a doctrine that originates from an oral Apostolic Tradition that the Bible is silent about? Provide proof that this doctrinal tradition is apostolic in origin.