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In the Religion forum, on a thread titled The Real Presence of Christ In The Eucharist: Scriptural and Tradition Support, rusty schucklefurd wrote:

Nowhere in these passages does it indicate that the bread and wine used in communion turns into the literal flesh and blood of Christ. There is no indication that Jesus is not using symbolic language when referring to Himself as the “Living Bread” from Heaven.

Wrong. Wrong in my opinion (and mine is as valid as yours or anyone elses), wrong in the opinion of the Church Fathers, the Apostles and the vast majority of Christendom alive today and from the first Martyr Saint Stephen.

154 posted on 01/07/2014 6:14:48 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)

156 posted on 01/07/2014 6:18:40 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)

St Paul was particularly insistent on the Real Presence. Perhaps he was just an uninformed bystander.

157 posted on 01/07/2014 6:19:31 PM PST by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)