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Roman Catholic AnswerCatholics receive the Body and Blood of Our Blessed Lord every time that they receive Holy Communion, even if it is only under the form of Bread. Our Blessed Lord is present, whole and entire, under both species, at every Mass, and in the Tabernacle.In communion Catholics receive the body and blood of Christ under the form of bread and wine.
You receive the body and blood of Jesus Christ. As Catholics we believe that there is the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, that it is his body, blood, soul, and divinity.
Catholics believe that communion bread has been turned into the Body of Christ during the Mass, so that is why they go up to the alter reverently.
you receive the body of christ with the wine[blood of christ]
The Eucharist is important to Catholics because Christ is important to Catholics. You see, the Catholic Church teaches the doctrine of the real Presence, which means that Catholics believe that the host is not a mere symbol of the Body of Christ, and the wine of the blood. They are really and truly the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ sacramentally present under the appearance of bread and wine.
the fish represents the christ in communion ie crossubstantiation, the changing of the wine into blood of christ, and bread into the body of christ.
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Catholics believe that the elements of bread and wine become the actual body and blood of Christ during the consecration of the Mass. Protestants believe the elements are merely symbols of Christ body and blood.
Christians and Catholics have very similar beliefs because Catholicism comes off of Christianity. But there is one main thing that keeps them different and separate; Catholics consecrate the Eucharist, Jesus Christ, during the Mass. Catholics receive Jesus in bread and wine form. The blood of Christ is the consecrated wine and Christ's body is the consecrated bread.Roman Catholic AnswerThat such a question could be asked is truly remarkable. Catholics ARE Christians. As a matter of fact they are the original Christians, and the only Christians for the first one thousand years until the heartbreaking split with the Orthodox.
For Catholics they are the substantial prescence of the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. They represent Christ's sacrifice for humans on the cross and call to mind the Last Supper Jesus had with his disciples.
In Communion