Eucherist

1. Real presence (1/14/13)
1. Accepted as Real Presence by the Church Fathers (1/14/13)
1. St. Augustine (1/14/13)
1. "What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ." St. Augustine, Sermons 227 (1/14/13)
2. "The faithful know what I am saying. They know Christ in the breaking of the bread. For not all bread, but only that which receives the blessing of Christ, becomes Christ’s body" -St. Augustine, Sermons 234, 2 (1/14/13)
2. Justin Martyr (1/14/13)
1. "The food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by Him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh are nourished, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus." -Justin Martyr, First Apology (1/14/13)
3. Ignatius of Antioch (1/14/13)
1. "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 the Father, in His goodness, raised up again. -Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans (1/14/13)
2. If the Eucharist is just a symbol than why bother? Why not just remember the last supper without eating anything? (5/19/11)
1. "If it's just a symbol, to hell with it" -Flannery O'Connor (6/5/13)
3. “The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.” - C.S. Lewis (6/7/13)
4. "For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself." ( 1 Corinthians 11:29, 5/19/11)
5. "Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." ( John 6:53, 2/15/12)
6. The Eucharist is to the Church as the family meal is to the family (2/15/12)
7. "Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven" ~Pope St. Pius X (2/15/12)
8. "The Eucharist is the great school in which we learn to see the face of God, where we enter into an intimate relationship with Him and learn at the same time to turn our gaze to the final moment of history, when He will fill us with the light of His face." -Pope Benedict XVI, General audience, January 16, 2013 (1/16/13)