The Eucharist Dilemma

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Eucharist Dilemma

FACT 1: The Roman Catholic Church teaches transubstantiation, which says that the communion wafer is magically transformed into the real body and blood of Jesus Christ.

FACT 2: Catholics really believe that, when they eat their Eucharist, they are eating the real flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.

FACT 3: The Roman Catholic Church also teaches that it is a mortal sin to eat meat on certain days of the year, including, in the United States, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all Fridays of Lent. (See The Catholic Encyclopedia, Revised and Updated Edition, Copyright 1987, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; page 17, under "Abstinence.")

FACT 4: The Roman Catholic Church requires all Roman Catholics to obey what are called the "precepts of the Church." Failure to obey these precepts is a mortal sin. The Fifth precept requires all Roman Catholics to abstain from meat (flesh) on designated days (see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Copyright 1994, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; page 494, Number 2043.)

FACT 5: Roman Catholics can eat their Eucharist on almost every day of the year, including all the Fridays of Lent.

The Dilemma

QUESTION: Do you believe that the Eucharist really is the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you believe it is a mortal sin to eat meat on the days designated by Rome for fast and abstinence?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you realize that, when you eat the Eucharist, you are eating human flesh, which is actually meat?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you realize that, when you eat the Eucharist on Ash Wednesday or a Friday during Lent, that you are thereby committing a mortal sin because you are eating meat?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you see how Rome puts you in a 'catch-22' by insisting that the Eucharist really is flesh, or meat, by making the eating of flesh, or meat on certain days a mortal sin, and then offering you the Eucharist on those very days?

Yes

No

QUESTION: How shall you resolve this dilemma?

Your Answer?

 

Eucharist Dilemma

FACT 1: The Roman Catholic Church teaches transubstantiation, which says that the communion wafer is magically transformed into the real body and blood of Jesus Christ.

FACT 2: Catholics really believe that, when they eat their Eucharist, they are eating the real flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.

FACT 3: The Roman Catholic Church also teaches that it is a mortal sin to eat meat on certain days of the year, including, in the United States, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all Fridays of Lent. (See The Catholic Encyclopedia, Revised and Updated Edition, Copyright 1987, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; page 17, under "Abstinence.")

FACT 4: The Roman Catholic Church requires all Roman Catholics to obey what are called the "precepts of the Church." Failure to obey these precepts is a mortal sin. The Fifth precept requires all Roman Catholics to abstain from meat (flesh) on designated days (see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Copyright 1994, with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur; page 494, Number 2043.)

FACT 5: Roman Catholics can eat their Eucharist on almost every day of the year, including all the Fridays of Lent.

The Dilemma

QUESTION: Do you believe that the Eucharist really is the actual flesh and blood of Jesus Christ?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you believe it is a mortal sin to eat meat on the days designated by Rome for fast and abstinence?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you realize that, when you eat the Eucharist, you are eating human flesh, which is actually meat?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you realize that, when you eat the Eucharist on Ash Wednesday or a Friday during Lent, that you are thereby committing a mortal sin because you are eating meat?

Yes

No

QUESTION: Do you see how Rome puts you in a 'catch-22' by insisting that the Eucharist really is flesh, or meat, by making the eating of flesh, or meat on certain days a mortal sin, and then offering you the Eucharist on those very days?

Yes

No

QUESTION: How shall you resolve this dilemma?

Your Answer?