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In my religion class we are learning about Transubstantiation. I am a Catholic but I do not believe in Transubstantiation and am wondering what other Christian religion believes in the symbolic approach to the Eucharist.

Transubstantiation is taught only by Roman Catholics and a few high-church Anglicans.

The Orthodox do not accept transubstantion as defined by the Roman Catholic Church, but do believe the bread and wine somehow change into Christ's Body and Blood.

Anglicans / Episcopalians have various views on the Eucharist- some accept transubstantiation, some another form of Real Presence, some see it as symbolic only.

Lutherans also believe in a Real Presence- Jesus' true Body and Blood are received 'in, with, and under' the bread and the wine.

Most other Protestants see it only as a symbol, although some may admit that Jesus is present in some 'spiritual' way.

2009-03-05 11:37:32 by xXiwOndErxX

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I've learned not to chew or bite it because its disrespectful, but i see people at church chewing it all the time. . .
Yep, I'm Catholic.

Yes, it's okay.

It was a kind of widespread superstition when my dad was young. One old nun told him that chewing the host was like "stabbing Jesus with knives." Ridiculous.

The Eucharist is our spiritual food. We chew food, don't we?

But if you prefer to let it melt on your tongue and swallow it unmastigated ;) that's all right too.

2009-02-11 12:51:39 by LuLu™

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I have been brought up and am a member of a Church of Christ church. I attended a Catholic church with the in-laws and was told I could not partake in the Eucharist except for getting a blessing from the priest.

At the Last Supper, Jesus said, “Take this bread. It is my body.” The he said, “Take this and drink. This is my blood. Do this in memory of me.”

Catholics believe this was the First Eucharist, that through some miracle the bread and wine actually became the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

Catholics reenact the Last Supper during every Mass, where the priest, acting in place of Christ, changes the bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ.

This is a great sacrament of thanksgiving and unity of Catholics.

Anyone who does not believe in the actual presence of Christ and is not united with the Catholic faith is asked, out of respect, not to receive the Eucharist.

Catholics, out of respect for other Christian faiths, do not receive Communion in non-Catholic churches.

We pray that one day Christian unity will succeed and we will all be called to the same table.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1322 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt1art3.htm

With love in Christ.

2008-08-13 00:57:51 by bazza

Our local church has a Vigil Eucharist service on Saturday evenings and Holy Eucharist services on Sunday mornings. What is the difference?

They are both exactly the same, by calling it a vigil it just means they are doing it the night before

2008-04-19 17:40:41 by nr

My professor wants us to write a 12 page essay on the topic and any help with symbols would be greatly appreciated. I need this for a ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH as I am at a Roman Catholic University.
What rituals are special to this celebration of first communion?

I can give you a little help, but if this is for a twelve page paper, you're really going to want to do a lot of additional research. Are there a lot of symbols unique to FIRST communion? Some of the symbols for communion in the Roman Catholic Church:

White clothes: purity, innocence
Blessing with holy water: Baptism, rebirth
Priest's stole: patience
Priest's chasuble: charity
Images of bread/wheat and wine/grapes: the Eucharist
Washing of hands: interior purification
Breaking of the bread: unity (one bread is shared among many)
Mixing water with the wine: How blood and water flowed from Christ's side

2009-05-04 19:13:05 by Muscle_master_06