Communion Wafer Question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Father , the Son, and Holy Ghost are a trinitarian braid like challah.

Wow. You must be joking. Please tell me you are.

[Anonymous]

We get Kings Hawaiian bread.

[Anonymous]

Sorry the Jeez-It isn’t to your liking. Perhaps you should be Protestant?

[Anonymous]

OP is a troll. But I'll play. Our church has used challah and I attended another service where matzoh was used. Jesus used unleavened bread in what was a Passover meal, so the matzoh fits that better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Different denominations use different breads, Eastern churches use leavened bread, but the point isn't for it to be tasty.

NGL, one time I tried an edible packing peanut and that was 100% what communion wafers taste like. Just because the overall point isn't that it be tasty, I feel like it's fair to ask if it's required to be more similar to a packing peanut than, you know, a plain loaf of bread or flatbread

[Anonymous]

Had a relative who was a pastor, I think Church of Christ. We were ELCA Lutheran, very proper (no communion until confirmed around age 14, wine in those cute tiny glasses and a round wafer that stuck to the roof of your mouth and made the wine taste foul). Staying with my cousins one weekend and attended their church. It was grape juice in a big cup passed down the pews (no communion rail) and a great big cracker (probably like matzoh, which I did not encounter until college).

My church did have some communion glasses with grape juice for the alcoholics in the congregation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. It's not a snack.

Why does Catholicism recreate cannibalism? Never understood that.

I believe Montaigne discussed this in his essay On Cannibalism but I have to confess I didn't read the homework for that seminar in college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We get Kings Hawaiian bread.

+1

We do too. No complaints. They give kids a bigger chunk. They are happy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get Kings Hawaiian bread.

+1

We do too. No complaints. They give kids a bigger chunk. They are happy.

Different bread at our church but our new pastor also gives the kids an extra big chunk. They love that.

The bread is not literally the body of Christ. Communion is sharing bread together as a community,. The community is the metaphorical "body of Christ"

[Anonymous]

Unleavened bread IS matzoh, but there can be no flavorings or adulterants. You can make unleavened bread that has some texture but one of the purposes of the communion hosts Catholics use is to maximize storage (because the Eucharist is “reserved in the tabernacle) and minimize crumbs, because Catholics believe that every particle recognizable as bread is the entire body and blood soul and divinity of Christ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^The disciples asked the same question of Jesus in St. John's gospel, ch. 6. He provides as full an answer as He would like us to have there.

It still doesn't make any sense to me.

The Torah states many times not to eat flesh and blood. Why "all of a sudden" is it fine to eat Jesus' flesh and blood??

Because God Himself literally told us to. Hope that helps!

[Anonymous]

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/what-catholics-believe-about-john-6?_gl=1*n5k3xp*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTA0MTM5NjczNC4xNzE2NjQ0MzQ2*_ga_C1P2JNZ1YB*MTcxNjY0NDM0NS4xLjAuMTcxNjY0NDM0NS4wLjAuMA..

A brief response to the spurious “cannibalism” libel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get Kings Hawaiian bread.

+1

We do too. No complaints. They give kids a bigger chunk. They are happy.

Different bread at our church but our new pastor also gives the kids an extra big chunk. They love that.

The bread is not literally the body of Christ. Communion is sharing bread together as a community,. The community is the metaphorical "body of Christ"

You must not be Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get Kings Hawaiian bread.

+1

We do too. No complaints. They give kids a bigger chunk. They are happy.

Different bread at our church but our new pastor also gives the kids an extra big chunk. They love that.

The bread is not literally the body of Christ. Communion is sharing bread together as a community,. The community is the metaphorical "body of Christ"

You must not be Catholic.

NP. PP is correct that the communion wafer is not literally the body of Christ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We get Kings Hawaiian bread.

+1

We do too. No complaints. They give kids a bigger chunk. They are happy.

Different bread at our church but our new pastor also gives the kids an extra big chunk. They love that.

The bread is not literally the body of Christ. Communion is sharing bread together as a community,. The community is the metaphorical "body of Christ"

You must not be Catholic.

NP. PP is correct that the communion wafer is not literally the body of Christ.

Denominations differ on this issue. But Catholic teaching unquestionably is that the Eucharist is the body and blood, soul and divinity, of Jesus, God Himself, under the appearance of bread (and wine) but having none of the substance of bread (or wine). The Catholic Church believes in transubstantiation, an entire change in substance, and rejects consubstantiation (it is both at the same time), “spiritual” presence, and “mere symbolism.” The Orthodox likewise believe in the “real presence” but unlike the Roman Church, do not seek to specifically define how it occurs.

If this poster claims to be Catholic they need to go back to Catechism.