Why is the Catholic Eucharist Unbiblical? | Mike Gendron

[bumkisful]

When Satan manages to distract a soul from Holy Communion, he achieves his goal. (St. Teresa of Lisieux)

[S.R.]

And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.”

[chriswilson]

The early Church was in such uniformity and agreement that there were no Ecumenical Councils called to discuss this doctrine. Even after the early Church fractured into what became the Church of the East, Oriental Orthodoxy, Eastern Orthodoxy and Catholicism, none of those Churches abandoned that belief. Amazing how this man seems to know better than all of early Christianity.

[G-MIP]

This quote by this alleged priest is bogus. This quote has no imprimatur. This video is both the sins of slander and bearing false witness. Christians must read and adhere to John 6–

Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
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Whoever eats* my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
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For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
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Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.b
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This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

[DaltonLPyron]

How about don't quote a priest who doesn't know what he's talking about and actually engage with our official Catholic documents, like the Catechism. 🙄

[bigdogboos]

I think that priest was wrong. I have been told (by another priest) that the official doctrine of the Eucharist is that the event of the mass consecration of the bread/wine "IS" the last supper given to the apostles. We are literally partaking in that same meal they received, and that we are eating the same bread and wine they were given when Jesus said "this is my body ... my blood ... take and eat/drink". They aren't sacrificing Christ again, Catholic doctrine is clear that Christ once suffered for sin, died once, rose once ... the Eucharist is us partaking in the bread/wine that he said was his own during the last supper. Now believe that or not ... cool, but i think this quote from that priest is just wrong.

[tannerblacklidge]

“Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions on the grace of Jesus Christ which has come to us, and see how contrary their opinions are to the mind of God. . . . They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which that Father, in his goodness, raised up again. They who deny the gift of God are perishing in their disputes” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans 6:2–7:1 [A.D. 110]).

Ignatius of Antioch on the Eucharist who is the student of the apostle John and likely knew other apostles.

[LEGASItv]

Both of you doesn't deal with what the Roman Catholic catechism actually says.

[ohdjrp]

That part in the book of Fr O Brien is problematic. I also can't understand the meaning he was trying to imply. It is just unbelievable!
I search the internet about The Holy Eucharist, and I have not read anything similar that Fr O Brien has written. So, it is better to refer to the official teaching of Our Church and not to an unofficial source which has the tendency to confuse us and may mislead us into accepting such writing.

[jameseconnolly]

I have no idea where they get that quote. But it is inaccurate. The catholic church remembers the sacrifice of christbut does not recruify him . Christ's sacrifice is eternal and eternally accepted by the Father. Their argument is mute because they are quoting a false statement. My question for them is what did the Church believe for 15 centuries..including Luther and Calvin? Who is the blaspheme r know?

[akwinas_a_o]

Sounds like he’s using some massive hyperbole that I, as a Catholic, find problematic. I think he’s implying that Jesus is humbling himself to engage in the Eucharist not because he has to but because he wants to. But the language makes my skin crawl as well. That doesn’t change Church teaching nor 2, 000 years of Church history.

[DD-sznw]

WOW! This video is very helpful! I'm amazed at how little the Pastors of protestant and evangelical churches understand of what the RCC really teaches.

[evangelist-]

Again mike, The Transubstantiation is on (Matthew 26:26) (John 6:53) (John 6:56) (1 Corinthians 11:24-25)

[anthonynaranjo]

What he finished on the cross? This seems to be a misunderstanding. Even after Jesus said It is finished he came back again and told his followers more instructions. And even Paul says that without the resurrection our faith is in vain... once again after he said it is finished. We believe that the sacrifice was once and for all too. However, he seems to misunderstand a Passover lamb sacrifice. One lamb would be slain in the Jewish custom and it would be eaten for multiple days. Jesus fulfilled the Passover and his sacrifice is so perfect that it is eternal. John the baptist also prophesied him as the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. I wonder what Mike Grendron thinks about Eucharistic miracles.

[ohdjrp]

Which book of Fr O' Brien are you referring to? Give the details.

[nickhart]

As a Catholic, I believe in, love and revere the miracle of Transubstantiation (the host and wine becoming the body and blood of Christ at the blessing of/consecration by the priest). I feel the Eucharist (Greek: Thanksgiving) brings me closer to Christ, and makes me want harder not to sin so as to be a worthy vessel of receiving Holy Communion (as indeed we pray before Communion). As Matthew 26 tells us - in many bibles but I reference the RSV2CE, this is founded in Jesus' own words. Usually Catholics are the bible-figurative ones, so I am perplexed by my Protestant brothers and sisters in Christ who don't... And, since *anything* is possible for Jesus and He is everywhere and in everything, why not? It could even be that God's being is what becomes like the host and wine through the Power of the Holy Spirit. Transubstantiation seems no harder or easier to understand than the Trinity, but no mainstream Christian denies the Trinity. Nor is the Eucharist the re-crucifixion of Christ; by what power could we even attempt to do that? No Catholic believes it's anything other than a kind of remembrance, so stop regurgitating False Witness. Whatever you believe as fellow Christians, I'd suggest at least remaining quiet on the issue and certainly avoiding mocking it. If not, you could be bearing False Witness and *literally* mocking the body and blood of our Blessed Saviour, Lord Jesus Christ.

[rangersism]

I love how.he asked an anti Catholic who does not understand anything about the Eucharist what his false opinion is. By zero authority he declares that the RCC is blasphemous.
The RCC draws on that single sacrifice in order to participate in the salvation of the cross. Because if you read John 6 Jesus Christ wants us to eat his flesh and drink his blood in order to have life. Protestants reject the Holy Eucharist so they have no life in them. I don't even count them as Christian. That's why Jesus said that not everyone who calls him Lord will go to Heaven.

[coffee]

Next time when doing an interview remove the music..it gets in the way of hearing it

[mayermackenzie]

I think it would be wise to go back to the early church fathers, and actually get the actually teaching from the catholic catechism. The idea that it is just symbolic is a very new idea, and was associated with the gnostics in the early church.

[brianmurphy]

The quote is a bit confusing. The offering that a priest offers at the altar is the one and same offering that the one priest, Jesus Christ, offered on the cross. He is re-presenting the one sacrifice offered once for all, as commanded by Jesus. He is not doing something on his own initative, Jesus is making the offering through him.

Do you take offense at this? It was because of this teaching that Judas betrayed Jesus; it was because of this teaching that many disciples abandoned Jesus...and he let them go without correcting them, they understood and didn't accept it. They found this saying too hard, how can this man give us his flesh to eat? If he is just a man the flesh is of no avail, yet he is not just a man and the words He spoke are spirit and life...yet there are some that do not believe and depart from his teaching.

No one can believe this unless it is granted him by the Father. Pray that you might believe, that you might discern the body and the blood, that you might partake in the new covenant, for as Jesus said “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed." You cannot afford to reject Jesus's teaching.



Luke 22:19-20 - "And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after supper, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood."

John 6:52-58 - "The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever.”

"...Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you that do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that should betray him. And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

1 Cor 11:23-39 - "For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For any one who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself."