the-eucharist-and-the-emperors-new-clothes

							     THE EUCHARIST



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The Emperor’s New Clothes
   By Hans Christian Anderson
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)
on page 292 under #1129 the following is written:
The Church affirms that for all believers the
sacraments of the New Covenant are necessary
for salvation. (italics in original)
  What are these "sacraments" that are
        necessary for salvation?
     There are seven sacraments in the Church:
Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist,
Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and
Matrimony. (CCC, p. 289, #1113; see also p. 311,
#1210)
          Roman Catholic View Of Grace

First and foremost, grace is God’s supernatural gift of
all that we need to reach eternal salvation, including
sanctifying grace, the infused virtues, the gifts of the
Holy Spirit, and actual grace, all of which we need to
               obtain the beatific vision.

                       Bible Grace

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not
 of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 9 Not of works, lest any
                        man should boast.
              What Is A Sacrament?
“Christ now acts through the sacraments he instituted
to communicate his grace. The sacraments are
perceptible signs (words and actions) accessible to
our human nature. By the action of Christ and the
power of the Holy Spirit they make present
efficaciously the grace that they signify.” (1084)
“Celebrated worthily in faith, the sacraments confer
the grace that they signify. They are efficacious
because in them Christ himself is at work: it is he
who baptizes, he who acts in his sacraments in
order to communicate the grace that each
sacrament signifies.” (1127)
      One of the above "sacraments"
      "necessary for salvation" is the
                Eucharist.
     In the most blessed sacrament of the
Eucharist "the body and blood, together with the
soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and,
therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and
substantially contained." (italics in original, CCC,
p. 346, #1374)

     In other words, the bread literally becomes
Jesus' body and the wine literally becomes his
blood. This called “Transubstantiation”
It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into
Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present
in this sacrament. (CCC, p. 346, #1375)

At the heart of the Eucharist celebration are the bread
and wine that, by the words of Christ and the
invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ's Body
and Blood. (CCC, p. 336, #1333)

The signs of bread and wine become, in a way
surpassing understanding, the Body and Blood of
Christ; (CCC, p. 336, #1333)
    Who Can Turn Bread Into God Almighty?
      Only validly ordained priests can preside at the
Eucharist and consecrate the bread and the wine so
that they become the Body and Blood of the Lord.
(CCC, p. 355, #1411)


           Check Your brain at the door
  "That in this sacrament are the true Body of Christ
   and his true Blood is something that 'cannot be
  apprehended by the senses,' says St. Thomas, 'but
         only by faith, . . . (CCC, p. 348, #1381)
Trust in me, JUST IN        PYTHON SONG BY KAA
          ME
 Shut your eyes and
     trust in me
 You can sleep safe
     and sound
   Knowing I am
        around

Slip into silent slumber,
Sail on a silver mist
Slowly and surely your senses,
Will cease to resist
Trust in me, JUST IN ME,
Shut your eyes and trust in me…
“A PRETTY MAID”




  Author Unknown
                Worship of the Eucharist.
      In the liturgy of the Mass we express our faith in
the real presence of Christ under the species of bread
and wine by, among other ways, genuflecting or
bowing deeply as a sign of adoration of the Lord.
(CCC, p. 347, #1378)

      The Church and the world have a great need for
Eucharistic worship. Jesus awaits us in this sacrament
of love. Let us not refuse the time to go to meet him
in adoration, . . . (CCC, p. 348, #1380)
                 What The Bible Says

             Presence Or Remembrance

 For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to
you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was
  betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He
broke it and said, "Take, eat; this is My body which is broken
    for you; do this in remembrance of Me." In the same
manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup
 is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you
drink it, in remembrance of Me." For as often as you eat this
 bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till
               He comes. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
    The Eucharist (the Mass), is continually
          offered up as a sacrifice.
The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents
(makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, . . . (CCC, p.
344, #1366)
      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 alter of
the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody
manner." (CCC, p. 344, #1367)
                 What The Bible Says

             No Continual Sacrifice Needed

Heb 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is
holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and
made higher than the heavens;7 Who needeth not
daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for
his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did
once, when he offered up himself.
      Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified
 through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all.11 And every priest standeth daily ministering
   and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which
  can never take away sins:12 But this man, after he
had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on
the right hand of God;13 From henceforth expecting
 till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one
    offering he hath perfected for ever them that are
                       sanctified.