Showing posts with label Brian Holdsworth. Show all posts
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Why Do 2/3 of Catholics NOT Believe in the Eucharist? Recent Pew Poll Re...

My personal comment on the subject of the two videos below on Catholic unbelief in Jesus' Real Presence in the Eucharist:

One (of many) advantages of being a convert: Before coming home to the Catholic Church (from 'low-church' Anglicanism) I had already accepted the idea of transubstantiation. For Marian doctrines however I really struggled. Then I was able to accept all teachings for I was converting to The Church that Jesus established. The Church that taught with divine authority. That made things, um, "easy". If The Church taught it I simply had to accept it. My _reason_ resulted in _faith_ . We all need to be taught about The Church and her authority and how The Church proceeds the bible. We need to be taught to accept the hard teachings of Our Lord. *AND* We must do away with the ordinary, every-day things that contaminate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass ... Dress up to receive the King of the Universe; No more ordinary language (the Anglicans used Old(er) English just to set the worship apart from the rest of life); Don't treat the church like some social club or meeting room (IE, be as silent as you can); HARDEST OF ALL (because it involves changing a part of the Mass we've been troubled with since abou 1970) -- DO AWAY WITH THE "SIGN OF PEACE" right after bread and wine become God!!!

 Here are a couple of discussions about our poor Catholic brethren who do not believe a VERY central teaching of The Church: