How Does The Eucharist Change Us?

Answer 1

I AM THE LIVING BREAD COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN THE ONE WHO EATS MY BODY AND DRINKS MY BLOOD SACRAMENTALLY ABIDES IN ME AND I IN THAT PERSON... WE BECOME THE BODY AND BLOOK OF CHRIST WHEN WE BELIEVE IN THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION AND RECEIVE IT IT GOOD FAITH. WE BECOME THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST WHEN WE SHARE CHRIST'S LOVE WITH OTHERS, ESPECIALLY THE POOR. WE BECOME THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST WHEN WE FORGIVE FROM THE HEART AND SHARE THIS FORGIVENESS WITH OTHERS, ESPECIALLY FAMILY AND FRIENDS. " THE CUP OF BLESSING THAT WE BLESS, IS IT NOT A PARTICIPATION IN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, THE BREAD THAT WE BREAK , IS IT NOT A PARTICIPATION IN THE BODY OF CHRIST." 1 cOR 10V16 REV JAMES BARRY CP USA I AM THE LIVING BREAD COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN THE ONE WHO EATS MY BODY AND DRINKS MY BLOOD SACRAMENTALLY ABIDES IN ME AND I IN THAT PERSON... WE BECOME THE BODY AND BLOOK OF CHRIST WHEN WE BELIEVE IN THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION AND RECEIVE IT IT GOOD FAITH. WE BECOME THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST WHEN WE SHARE CHRIST'S LOVE WITH OTHERS, ESPECIALLY THE POOR. WE BECOME THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST WHEN WE FORGIVE FROM THE HEART AND SHARE THIS FORGIVENESS WITH OTHERS, ESPECIALLY FAMILY AND FRIENDS. " THE CUP OF BLESSING THAT WE BLESS, IS IT NOT A PARTICIPATION IN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, THE BREAD THAT WE BREAK , IS IT NOT A PARTICIPATION IN THE BODY OF CHRIST." 1 cOR 10V16 REV JAMES BARRY CP USA

Answer 2

I believe the Eucharist refers to Communion. I go to a Baptist church,so we call it Communion. The bread and wine (in our case, Grape Juice) do not literally become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, but it is a symbol commanded by Him to remember His death. In our church, we take communion not to commune with each other, but to obey and remember Christ. All those who have accepted Christ take it. It might promote unity by helping us remember our focus, but that is not why we take it.

Answer 3

The Eucharist is the actual Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, which He has established so that He may be with us always and unite ourselves in the most intimate and spiritual manner through Holy Communion. However, this can only be done if two conditions are met: you truly believe, and you are in a state of grace (have been to confession recently). Without those two conditions, then you are doing more than wasting your time, you are calling condemnation down on yourself (1 Cor 11:29). The second (what unites us to one another) is that in our baptism, and in our receiving Holy Communion (worthily) we become more and more part of the Mystical Body of Christ on earth, i.e. the Holy Catholic Church.

Answer 4

Catholic AnswerThe technical term for it is transubstantiation. It is not the easiest thing to understand. Everything that we see is composed of two things (this is the philosophical way of defining things): substance and accident. Look at water, you can have steam, liquid water, ice, or snow. They are all the same "thing" - H20, but they certainly look different. If we didn't know better we would think that there were four different things. The H2O is "water", that is the "substance". The "accidents" are cold, hard, liquid, soft, vaporous, etc. In other words, you can change the accidents but the substance remains the same.

Another example might be wood, you could have a tree, a floor, or a pile of ashes. Same thing, they are all "wood", but with different accidents.

But in all the things we can look at in the world, the accidents can and do change, but the substance remains the same. The Eucharist is entirely the other way around, the "accidents": looks and tastes like bread - remain the same, BUT the entire substance, what it is, changes. So even though to every sense we have, even with sophisticated instruments, everything we can see, touch, etc. it remains bread; but the entire substance of bread has, through a miracle of God, changed into the substance of Jesus Christ, His Body, and Soul, His Humanity, and Divinity, are all present where previously bread had been present.

This is a great mystery, but, hey, God is all powerful, and so far beyond us as to be incomprehensible. But He condescended to become human so that we could comprehend Him. The fact that He also condescended to appear under the appearance of bread is no less a miracle than that he came as a human being.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

1375 It is by the conversion of the bread and wine into Christ's body and blood that Christ becomes present in this sacrament. The Church Fathers strongly affirmed the faith of the Church in the efficacy of the Word of Christ and of the action of the Holy Spirit to bring about this conversion. Thus St. John Crysostom declares: And St. Ambrose says about this conversion:

Be convinced that this is not what nature has formed, but what the blessing has consecrated. The power of blessing prevails over that of nature, because by the blessing nature itself is changed . . . Could not Christ's word, which can make from nothing what did not exist, change existing things into they were not before? It is no less a feat to give things their original nature than to change their nature. (St. Ambrose, De myst. 9, 50; 52: J. P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Latina {Paris: 1841-1855} 16, 405-407

Answer 5

It Changes Us Because We Are Being Cleansed Of Sin.