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To: Arthur McGowan
After the Resurrection, the Eucharist contains the body and blood, and the human soul, and the divine Person of the Risen Christ.

So the flesh and blood that the Catholic church claims people are eating and drinking is from the RISEN Christ.

Except that flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom of heaven.

And there's no record of Christ's risen body having any blood since it was all poured out.

Not to mention that the CCC states that the eucharist is a participation in the BLOODLESS sacrifice of Christ, which accomplishes nothing because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins.

Unbloody sacrifice

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P41.HTM

1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "In this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner."188

So if the Catholic church is claiming they are offering an unbloody sacrifice, it is NOT the same one as Christ made.

145 posted on 03/01/2015 6:33:01 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
So the flesh and blood that the Catholic church claims people are eating and drinking is from the RISEN Christ.

Except that flesh and blood does not inherit the kingdom of heaven.

"Flesh" (and "blood") sometimes refer to sinful human nature, deprived of grace. In that sense, "flesh and blood" will not inherit the kingdom of heaven.

Nevertheless, the term "flesh" retains its primary meaning of, simply, flesh--i.e., the body.

The very beginning of Saint John's Gospel tells us that "the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us." Saint John was NOT telling us that Word became "sinful human nature"! He was telling us that the Word became united with a HUMAN NATURE. I.e., the Word became a man.

Since the FLESH or BODY of Jesus that is present in the Eucharist is the same flesh or body or human nature that St. John is referring to when he says "the Word became flesh," obviously the body and blood in the Eucharist are NOT "sinful human nature," but are the sinless human nature of Jesus Christ.

147 posted on 03/01/2015 6:44:11 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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