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It is
frightening to hear the number of people who don't
believe in the true presence of Jesus Christ in
the Eucharist. Especially when the number is
Catholic communicants who don't believe.
Often most people wonder where is
the Eucharist in the Bible, the holy word of God,
states that the Eucharist is the true body and
the true blood of Jesus Christ. Pay close
attention to John 6:32-66, read it several times
if you need to, it's fairly clear what Jesus
meant especially when "many (of) his
disciples returned to their former way of life
and no longer accompanied him" and Jesus
allowed this, he didn't stop them and tell them
that he meant this figuratively, this was for
real, Jesus Christ is indeed present in the Body
of Christ, the Eucharist.
The Holy Eucharist
Mt 26:26-27 While they were eating, Jesus
took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and
giving it to his disciples said, "Take and
eat; this is my body." Then he took a
cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying,
"Drink from it, all of you,
Mk 14:22-24 Wherever he enters, say to the
master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where
is my guest room where I may eat the Passover
with my disciples?"' Then he will show
you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make
the preparations for us there."
The disciples then went off, entered the
city, and found it just as he had told them; and
they prepared the Passover. When it was evening,
he came with the Twelve. And as they reclined at
table and were eating, Jesus said, "Amen, I
say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is
eating with me." They began to be distressed
and to say to him, one by one, "Surely it is
not I?" He said to them, "One of the
Twelve, the one who dips with me into the dish.
For the Son of Man indeed goes, as it is written
of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of
Man is betrayed. It would be better for that man
if he had never been born." While they
were eating, he took bread, said the blessing,
broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take
it; this is my body." Then he took a cup,
gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all
drank from it. He said to them, "This
is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed
for many.
Lk 22:19-20 Then he took the bread, said the
blessing, broke it, and gave it to them, saying,
"This is my body, which will be given for
you; do this in memory of me." And likewise
the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This
cup is the new covenant in my blood, which will
be shed for you.
1 Cor 11:24-30 and, after he had given thanks,
broke it and said, "This is my body that is
for you. Do this in remembrance of me."
In the same way also the cup, after supper,
saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my
blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in
remembrance of me." For as often as you eat
this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the
death of the Lord until he comes. Therefore
whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the
Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body
and blood of the Lord. A person should
examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink
the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without
discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on
himself. That is why many among you are ill and
infirm, and a considerable number are dying.
John 6:32-66 So Jesus said to them,
"Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses
who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives
you the true bread from heaven. For the
bread of God is that which comes down from heaven
and gives life to the world." So they
said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always."
Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life;
whoever comes to me will never hunger, and
whoever believes in me will never thirst. But I
told you that although you have seen (me), you do
not believe. Everything that the Father gives me
will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who
comes to me, because I came down from heaven not
to do my own will but the will of the one who
sent me. And this is the will of the one
who sent me, that I should not lose anything of
what he gave me, but that I should raise it (on)
the last day. For this is the will of my
Father, that everyone who sees the Son and
believes in him may have eternal life, and I
shall raise him (on) the last day."
The Jews murmured about him because he said,
"I am the bread that came down from heaven,"
and they said, "Is this not Jesus, the son
of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother?
Then how can he say, 'I have come down from
heaven'?" Jesus answered and said to
them, "Stop murmuring among yourselves.
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent
me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets: 'They shall all be
taught by God.' Everyone who listens to my Father
and learns from him comes to me. Not that anyone
has seen the Father except the one who is from
God; he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I
say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the
manna in the desert, but they died; this is the
bread that comes down from heaven so that one may
eat it and not die. I am the living bread that
came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread
will live forever; and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world." The
Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How
can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?"
Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to
you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink his blood, you do not have life within
you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my
blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on
the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my
blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and
drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me and I have life
because of the Father, so also the one who feeds
on me will have life because of me. This is the
bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your
ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats
this bread will live forever." These things
he said while teaching in the synagogue in
Capernaum. Then many of his disciples who were
listening said, "This saying is hard; who
can accept it?" Since Jesus knew that his
disciples were murmuring about this, he said to
them, "Does this shock you? What if you were
to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was
before? It is the spirit that gives life,
while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have
spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are
some of you who do not believe." Jesus knew
from the beginning the ones who would not believe
and the one who would betray him. And he said,
"For this reason I have told you that no one
can come to me unless it is granted him by my
Father." As a result of this, many (of) his
disciples returned to their former way of life
and no longer accompanied him.
Genesis 14:18 Melchizedek, king of Salem,
brought out bread and wine, and being a priest of
God Most High, he blessed Abram with these words:
Acts 2:42 They devoted themselves to the
teaching of the apostles and to the communal life,
to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.
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