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eucharist

  1. Not David

    How do you prepare yourself to take Communion?

    What do you do physically, mentally and spiritually to be worthy of partaking in it?
  2. TuxAme

    The Bread of Life

    This week and for the next few weeks, our gospel readings will focus on Jesus as the Bread of Life: His Eucharistic Presence. Sometimes our readings are centered on Jesus as a sower, others as the only Son of a vineyard owner, and yet others as a shepherd or a good Samaritan. These are all...
  3. HoneyBee

    A Question about Adoration

    What exactly do you do during Adoration? Is it okay to bring a religious book with you to read while you are there for the whole hour, like a devotional book or even the Bible itself? Please let me know. I need ideas for when I go to Adoration for the first time in two weeks.
  4. UtahOrBust

    Holy Communion, Real Presence or merely symbolic?

    Jhon 6:53-58
  5. BobRyan

    confecting the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ?

    Quote from CCC: 1374 Quote: The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as "the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend."201 In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist "the body...
  6. O

    Augustine, the Eucharist, and Signs

    Hello all, I have spent the last several weeks studying the Eucharist, specifically reading the Early Church Fathers (ECFs) to get a handle on what they believed about it with regard to the Real Presence. As a Protestant, I was stunned to find many seemingly obvious statements exhibiting a...
  7. Quid est Veritas?

    Which sacraments of other denominations do you accept?

    My daughter was recently baptised, and I was just wondering about this. Which sacraments are accepted by whom? I see Roman Catholics accept Protestant baptism as legitimate, provided a trinitarian formula is followed and actual water is used. They also accept Orthodox baptism, but it seems the...
  8. A

    Lord's Supper & eating of the unworthy,impious, or unbeliever

    I came from a non-Lutheran background so my evangeical background would not assume a Real Prescence in the Lord's Supper. (I am attending a Lutheran Church with Open Communion) "Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning...
  9. Greg Merrill

    The Lord's Supper Surprise!

    This Sunday at Church, listening to my Pastor's sermon, I began taking notes as I was absorbed in the message. I noticed others weren't that interested, and my wife later said she had trouble staying awake. Some sermons are just more interesting to certain people. Being Communion Sunday (We...
    • Greg Merrill
    • Blog entry
    • 2 min read
    • communion eucharist lord's supper
    • Category: General
  10. Fish and Bread

    Homily on Open Communion

    I liked this homily favoring open communion and found it very uplifting. I thought I'd re-post it here as spiritual food for thought. The person delivering it has made it public domain, so I am able to post it in full (in quotes) without violating copyright or any forum rules. Here is the...
  11. C

    Lords supper is symbolic

    Guys: Can anyone cite the Bible verse that says that the Eucharist in the Lords supper is symbolic? Catholics believe it is literally Christ's body and blood. Protestants say it is a symbol. Can anyone show where the Bible says it is a symbol?
  12. Philip_B

    Nicene Creed in the Liturgy

    Please not this is not about the filioque or the version of the Nicene Creed It is also not about the position of the Creed in the Liturgy Since the third council of the Toledo in 579 there has been widespread use of the Nicene Creed in the Eucharistic Liturgy of the Western Church. I don't...
  13. Fish and Bread

    Eucharistic prayer in the 21st century

    Link: Eucharistic prayer in the 21st century In the Episcopal Church, Eucharistic Prayer C includes a small couple paragraph attempt to do a little bit of what Father Thomas proposes here for the Roman Catholic Church. Both churches should look further along this path of incorporating what we...
  14. P

    Adventism refuted by Orthodoxy

    The SDA faith is characterized by an extreme opposition to Roman Catholicism. The Pope is considered to be or to have been the Beast, almost all aspects of doctrine held by Rome are rejected, even including basics such as the date of Pascha, and so on. Now, all of this is predicated upon a...
  15. Winter_Rose

    Can Catholics Have Communion in Non Catholic Churches?

    Is it wrong for a Catholic to have communion at a non Catholic Church? I have family who are non Catholic and sometimes I come to visit them and have communion with them at their church.
  16. Monk Brendan

    Are the Sacraments Valid if the priest is a notorious sinner?

    If a Catholic priest is found to be a notorious sinner, say a pedophile, when he stands before the Altar, is the Celebration of the Mass valid? Is the Eucharist validly accomplished? I ask this, because some Protestants and other Evangelical Christians seems to think that if the priest is a...
  17. rakovsky

    Do the Articles teach a real presence in bread, and do only the worthy eat it with their mouths?

    PLEASE NOTE: THE POLL IS FOR ANGLICANS ONLY The Articles of Religion are one of the foundational documents of Anglicanism, and the relationship of Christ's body to the Eucharist bread is one of the most important topics that it discusses. At the same time, numerous educated, sincere Anglican...
  18. rakovsky

    POLL: Do you consider the Eucharistic ritual food itself to be/have Christ's body?

    In my last thread, I tried to define Anglicanism's teaching specifically and ask how exactly Anglicans think on the topic of the Eucharistic elements...
  19. S

    Basic Episcopal Beliefs

    I was raised in the United Methodist church before coming to college about three years ago. As I matured and my beliefs were examined a bit more, started to slowly drift away from the UMC in search of a new denomination that is more socially current (allows female leadership, affirms LGBT...
  20. rakovsky

    Could the Philosophical & Interpretive Approach of Reformed Protestantism lead out of Christianity?

    (1) Does "Reformed" Protestantism (Calvinism, Presbyterianism, Evangelicalism, etc.) have a solid, clear, direct basis in 1st to 3rd century Christian traditions and writings to claim that the Communion food is in itself "only" a symbol* and to reject Jesus' "real" presence in the elements...
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