re: Much Needed Clarity Regarding the Pope and the Recent Document Regarding Blessings

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The Eucharist is some sort of Voodoo magic where you claim to actually transform a piece of bread into Jesus' body and a cup of wine (or grape juice in our case) into literally the blood of Jesus. But that just simply cannot and does not happen. It is a representation of and done in remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice for us by dying on the cross. So nobody is denying Jesus.

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Not only are you calling Jesus Christ a liar, but, your position is antithetical to the beliefs of everybody in the Early Church. Your view was invented by a man more than Fifteen Centuries after Christ Ascended to Heaven.

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If Catholics really believe that they have to literally eat Jesus’ flesh and drink his blood, why don’t all Catholics drink from the cup every Mass?

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Did Jesus Christ leave a schedule somewhere for us to follow on this issue?

Do you really think that this is some sort of "Gotcha"?

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Do you really think that this is some sort of "Gotcha"?

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I think if it’s important to eat his flesh, surely it’s equally important to drink his blood. But Catholics only make eating his flesh a priority and skip his blood.

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edit from the Catechism: 1367 The sacrifice of Christ and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice: "The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different." "And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and is offered in an unbloody manner. . . this sacrifice is truly propitiatory.

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This here is a microcosm of whats wrong with the RCC. Write some unintelligible paragraphs cloaked in mysticism to explain a theology that is simple. This is done for a reason. They hope the abundance of words and the language most laity can’t understand will give it some form of gravitas and no one will question its mumbo jumbo.
It’s nothing but Gobbledygook

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I can't speak for every Catholic, but, I partake in the Body and Blood at every Mass.

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You know darn well that most of the laity isn’t drinking from the cup in most Masses

to be honest I should have posted a few paragraphs before, because the text and context help it make more sense.

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I won't quote the entire section here, but if you are willing go read numbers 1362-1372.

To put it simply. The jewish people when they celebrated the passover were not just remembering the events but in a miraculous way the passover is made present to them. We say the same thing for the Eucharist. Somehow God makes present the sacrifice of Christ on the cross, present on the altar.

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This here is a microcosm of whats wrong with the RCC. Write some unintelligible paragraphs cloaked in mysticism to explain a theology that is simple. This is done for a reason. They hope the abundance of words and the language most laity can’t understand will give it some form of gravitas and no one will question its mumbo jumbo.
It’s nothing but Gobbledygook

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Man, I thought we were getting somewhere. You're doing the thing you've done several times where you assign malicious intent to the Church instead of arguing with the Church's stated position. It comes across as a petty jab rather than an argument made in good faith and undermines your position.

Also, just because YOU don't understand it doesn't mean it's not true. Any attempt to explain sola scriptura and all the objections to it would be infinitely more goobledygook-ish than this excerpt from the Catechism.

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That’s very typical . Y’all are a stickler for rules and Jesus said eat the body and drink the blood, but again, when it isn’t feasible, the RCC invents another out to circumvent this inconvenience. Y’all sure do pick and choose when to adhere to Jesus’ commands

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hmmm, I've never heard this objection before. So I need to think over it.

But as I understand it, the priest who celebrates the mass must receive under both kinds. He is fulfilling the command by Christ.

But I would assume that we are still fulfilling his command to receive both his body and blood, as we teach he is present fully body and blood in both species.

edit: I can claim the same thing for you. Jesus told us to eat his flesh and drink his blood, but you only receive bread and wine if you receive it at all.

You argument that catholics should always receive both species is interesting, but your argument that because we don't we are just creating loopholes isn't and getting kinda old.

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Question...

In your opinion as a Catholic, am I, as a Southern Baptist who has accepted the Lord as my personal savior and, as an outward expression of my Faith, been baptized and who tries, to the best of my ability and with the Lord's help, live a Godly life and repents of my sins daily... going to heaven? As in... would y'all consider me to be saved?

Does it not all boil down to that one simple question?

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Here's a great article on how the process of Salvation works under the Catechism. It's simple.

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"So that’s what you need to do. To come to God and be saved, you need to repent, have faith, and be baptized. If you commit mortal sin, you need to repent, have faith, and go to confession."

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yes it does - anything is possible with God

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You are quite correct... With God, all things are possible.

Perhaps I should've just said that does not happen. Because it doesn't, no matter that Catholics say and believe otherwise.