Who received of the Eucharist is weekend?

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motojojo

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I just wanted to hear from my brothers that received of the Eucharist this weekend and how much it means to you. P.S. don't debate those that respond and don't understand. I just want to know those of you that love the body and blood of our Lord. It means so much to me and I'm sorrowed that the Church is rigid in who partakes and who don't, but its for their own good that they don't without knowing Exactly what they are doing.
 
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BestBeWishing

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motojojo said:
I just wanted to hear from my brothers that received of the Eucharist this weekend and how much it means to you. P.S. don't debate those that respond and don't understand. I just want to know those of you that love the body and blood of our Lord. It means so much to me and I'm sorrowed that the Church is rigid in who partakes and who don't, but its for their own good that they don't without knowing Exactly what they are doing.
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Hey will you please explain what this means as I'm not sure (Eucharist)

and whats the Church doing??? sorrowed why?? who partakes and dont??

Hope I dont sound to stup here

Thanks

David
 
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To partake of the body and the blood is scared. I'm honored to do it. It is of Christ. I don't worship it or doing it I worship Christ.
 
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MaggieMye

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It's called COMMUNION

and it should be done DAILY.

Maggie
 
Cleante

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Maggie, it is known by many names.

Moto, I did partake in the Mystical Supper over the weekend.
 
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I didn't receive because I had not participated in the sacrament of reconcilliation. Still, I was able to be in the presence of the blessed Eucharist and look forward to next week when I hopefully will be able to partake. :D
 
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dscherck said:
I didn't receive because I had not participated in the sacrament of reconcilliation. Still, I was able to be in the presence of the blessed Eucharist and look forward to next week when I hopefully will be able to partake. :D
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You are one of few who abstain from the Mystical Supper because they are not in a State of Grace.
 
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As long as no one is worshiping a cracker I have seen in some churches and going and bowing down at it. This is false god worship. Live and learn.
 
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loveschild said:
As long as no one is worshiping a cracker I have seen in some churches and going and bowing down at it. This is false god worship. Live and learn.
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Were they saltines? I don't know what churches you have seen that worship a cracker but they are indeed in error for worshiping a cracker. What you are thinking of is the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Western Church. Notice, it does not say worship. The host, what you may call a "cracker", is no longer a cracker when the words of the Consecration is said by an ordained priest. It ceases to be bread and becomes the body of Our Lord IC XC.

Adoration is by no means worship. I adore my parents for the sacrifices they did in raising me but I am not worshiping them.

The Orthodox Church does not have an Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. The closest thing that we have is during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. During the Great Entrance, we prostrate ourselves out of reverence and adoration for the Body of Our Lord.

The Synod of Jerusalem said:
"We believe the Lord Jesus Christ to be present, not typically, nor figuratively, nor by superabundant grace, as in the other Mysteries, … but truly and really, so that after the consecration of the bread and of the wine, the bread is transmuted, transubstantiated, converted and transformed into the true Body Itself of the Lord, Which was born in Bethlehem of the ever-Virgin Mary, was baptised in the Jordan, suffered, was buried, rose again, was received up, sitteth at the right hand of the God and Father, and is to come again in the clouds of Heaven; and the wine is converted and transubstantiated into the true Blood Itself of the Lord, Which, as He hung upon the Cross, was poured out for the life of the world."
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loveschild said:
As long as no one is worshiping a cracker I have seen in some churches and going and bowing down at it. This is false god worship. Live and learn.
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What you see as a cracker, we see as the literal Body and Blood of Our Lord God Jesus Christ. Tell me, if you truly believed that Our Lord Jesus was present in the Eucharist, wouldn't you bow before the Creator of Heaven and Earth?
 
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Cleante said:
Were they saltines? I don't know what churches you have seen that worship a cracker but they are indeed in error for worshiping a cracker. What you are thinking of is the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Western Church. Notice, it does not say worship. The host, what you may call a "cracker", is no longer a cracker when the words of the Consecration is said by an ordained priest. It ceases to be bread and becomes the body of Our Lord IC XC.

Adoration is by no means worship. I adore my parents for the sacrifices they did in raising me but I am not worshiping them.

The Orthodox Church does not have an Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. The closest thing that we have is during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. During the Great Entrance, we prostrate ourselves out of reverence and adoration for the Body of Our Lord.
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Do the people kneel as they are adoring the cracker/wafer?
 
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1still_waters

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Cleante said:
Were they saltines? I don't know what churches you have seen that worship a cracker but they are indeed in error for worshiping a cracker. What you are thinking of is the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Western Church. Notice, it does not say worship. The host, what you may call a "cracker", is no longer a cracker when the words of the Consecration is said by an ordained priest. It ceases to be bread and becomes the body of Our Lord IC XC.

Adoration is by no means worship. I adore my parents for the sacrifices they did in raising me but I am not worshiping them.

The Orthodox Church does not have an Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. The closest thing that we have is during the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts. During the Great Entrance, we prostrate ourselves out of reverence and adoration for the Body of Our Lord.
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–verb (used with object)
1.
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
2.
to pay divine honor to; worship: to adore god.
3.
to like or admire very much: I simply adore the way your hair is done!
 
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1still_waters

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dscherck said:
What you see as a cracker, we see as the literal Body and Blood of Our Lord God Jesus Christ. Tell me, if you truly believed that Our Lord Jesus was present in the Eucharist, wouldn't you bow before the Creator of Heaven and Earth?
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In all honesty God doesn't seem to in favor of folks bowing down to earthly objects that are meant to resemble the divine.
 
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1still_waters

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dscherck said:
What you see as a cracker, we see as the literal Body and Blood of Our Lord God Jesus Christ. Tell me, if you truly believed that Our Lord Jesus was present in the Eucharist, wouldn't you bow before the Creator of Heaven and Earth?
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You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
 
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1still_waters said:
You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
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That is indeed a commandment. You must remember though that to look at God in the New Testament would result in death. God was not human at that time. He was something we could not visually comprehend. Also, read a bit further. God the Father commanded the Israelites to make graven images of Cherubim, which adorned the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple.

Denying the importance and place of icons and the Real Presence in the Church is to belittle the Incarnation. When our Lord Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, we, us humans, finally had a face for God. The Incarnation supersedes that commandment because God has finally taken on a form that we know.

Makarios Chrysokefalos said, "What we have seen, we bear witness to, for we have seen it with our own eyes and our own hands have touched it, and so, in images do we venerate and depict the human aspect that was seen."
I am not depicting His unseen divinity, but the flesh of God that was seen», proclaims Saint John of Damascus. And he exhorts us: « Engrave Christ’s ineffable condescension: His Birth by a Virgin. Inscribe everything, both in word and in colors».
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As St. John of Damascus said, "I do not worship matter, but I do worship the Creator of matter – the One Who assumed matter for my sake and Who condescended to inhabit matter and Who forged my salvation through matter and I shall not cease to respect matter, through which my salvation was forged."

To show the seriousness of this issue I will post the last parts of the deceleration of the Second Council of Nicaea.

Therefore all those who dare to think or teach anything different, or who follow the accursed heretics in rejecting ecclesiastical traditions, or who devise innovations, or who spurn anything entrusted to the church (whether it be the gospel or the figure of the cross or any example of representational art or any martyr's holy relic), or who fabricate perverted and evil prejudices against cherishing any of the lawful traditions of the catholic church, or who secularize the sacred objects and saintly monasteries, we order that they be suspended if they are bishops or clerics, and excommunicated if they are monks or lay people.

Anathemas concerning holy images


  1. If anyone does not confess that Christ our God can be represented in His humanity, let him be anathema.
  2. If anyone does not accept representation in art of evangelical scenes, let him be anathema.
  3. If anyone does not salute such representations as standing for the Lord and His saints, let him be anathema.
  4. If anyone rejects any written or unwritten Tradition of the Church, let him be anathema.

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1still_waters said:
In all honesty God doesn't seem to in favor of folks bowing down to earthly objects that are meant to resemble the divine.
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The Eucharist isn't meant to resemble the divine. It IS the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. And as such, we bow before it because we are in the very presence of Our Lord God and Saviour Jesus Christ.
 
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motojojo

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I questioned this very issue to God and He gave me a vision as I saw the Eucharist turn to the body of our Lord. Brothers in Christ please don't debate those who have eyes but cannot see or have ears but cannot hear. Ignore their rants this post is for us not them. Partaking of the body and blood of Christ is a precious gift that we have and they debate.
 
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motojojo said:
I questioned this very issue to God and He gave me a vision as I saw the Eucharist turn to the body of our Lord. Brothers in Christ please don't debate those who have eyes but cannot see or have ears but cannot hear. Ignore their rants this post is for us not them. Partaking of the body and blood of Christ is a precious gift that we have and they debate.
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I understand that you do not want to discuss the Eucharist. So why put in on a public site? You have a pretty good idea who is Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Orthodox. Just PM.
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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It's sad that the Eucharist became such a divisive issue in Christiandom for so many centuries. This rememberance Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper, before the Passion, was designeed to bring disciples of Christ together not seperate us as evidenced in John 17 where Jesus prays for his disciples on that night as follows "Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name—the name you gave me—so that they may be one as we are one."
 
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The Holy Eucharist have different name to different Christian groups. I prefer to call this sacrament the Holy Communion. This is a very important command of the Lord Jesus Christ to all His followers. In fact we have to do it as often as we can. Apostle Paul also reminded us that we have to attend to it in a worthy manner. Those who will do it in unworthy manner have a corresponding liability to receive such as sickness or even death.

The Holy Communion is a spiritual practice by spiritual Christians, not carnal Christians.Those who are not living in their spiritual life as a follower of Jesus Christ will have difficulties in getting the wisdom of this sacrament. First, we must understand that man is a spirit, soul, and body. Therefore, partaking in the Holy Communion is the spirit, soul, and body of a man. The cracker used is the physical presentation as the body.The words of Jesus Christ uttered during the process is the spiritual body and blood taken. Jesus said, "My words are spirit and they are life." It is the word of Jesus Christ that completes the mystery in the Holy Communion. Jesus also said, Man does not live by bread alone but by every word from the mouth of God." Our spirit and soul needs to be feed also by the the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

If this few words helps, please give all the honor and praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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