How Often Need Catholics Take Communion?

[tanakh]

Your wrong, the Catholic Church does teach Mary was born without sin. This is the problem with most so called Christians, they do not take the time to find out what a Church teaches before they join that Church.

We are to believe and accept ONLY that which the Holy Spirit teaches in the Scriptures. The Holy Spirit clearly has said all have sinned and clearly the Catholic Church teaches Mary was sinless.

Another thing is when Catholics confess their sins to a Catholic Priest it is mandatory for the forgiveness of their sins to pray the Hail Mary over and over and over again. They are praying to Mary, not to God.

I find it astounding so many people will not take the time to study the Scriptures and compare them to what certain Churches teach.

The vast majority of Catholics don't ''join'' the church, they are born into a Catholic family and are Christened as babies
they are then confirmed as members in later childhood which by that time have been indoctrinated into the Catholic view of Christianity. Apart from that family loyalty and Peer pressure has a huge influence on their beliefs and attitude towards those outside the Catholic faith. This is not peculiar to Catholics only. People born into Protestant denominations also
experience the same sort of process.

 

[Vdp]

This is the problem, too many people are "born" into a religion and never check to see what this religion teaches!

I for one was born and raised in the Catholic Church. After studying the Scriptures and comparing them to what the "catholics" were teaching, i left the Catholic Church to walk with God in a True Christian Church.

The Catholic Church declared Mary as being born without sin in 1854. But yet in Romans 3:23 God said ALL have sinned!

Romans 3:23
[SUP]23 [/SUP]for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

The Catholics basically have called God a liar and declared that Mary was sinless!

491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:
The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin

 

[VernonFrancis]

Not sure what is being said by the op, since the earliest days of the faith (the way) disciples of Christ have celebrated the Lord's supper. And the apostles did so daily which remains the tradition of Catholics. It is not celebrated to gain eternal life, it is celebrated to recognize and enter into Christ's sacrifice for humanity.

Just a thought.

 

[WebersHome]

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● John 6:53 . . 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.

When I was growing up a young Catholic boy back in the decade of the
1950s, we were given the bread at communion, but never the wine. In other
words; in accordance with the principles of transubstantiation; we ate Jesus'
flesh without his blood.

Well; Jesus' recipe for "life within you" consists of both his flesh and his
blood. Therefore, none of my communions counted because they were
incomplete. I obtained no life from them: none of them; not a single one. I
might just as well have used the host to make a peanut butter and jelly hor
d'oeuvre for all the good it did me without the wine element.

It is not only necessary to include the wine element in order to obtain life,
but it is also necessary to include it in order to attain to Jesus' resurrection.

● John 6:53 . . Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life,
and I will raise him on the last day.

So then, according to the principles of transubstantiation, I not only lacked
eternal life due to my total, 100% lack of Jesus' blood; but my afterlife
future was in grave peril too!

I was told that both species of the Eucharist-- the consecrated host and the
consecrated wine --contain Christ's body and blood (a.k.a. real presence) so
that either one alone will do the trick without the other.

Well; that might be what Rome says; but it's not what Christ preached.

1• Christ taught that his body is represented by the bread.

"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." (Matt 26:26)

2• Christ taught that his blood is represented by the wine.

"Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: Drink from
it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed on
behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins." (Matt 26:27-28)

According to the apostle Paul, when pew warmers leave one of the elements
out of their communion service, they convey an incomplete gospel.

"For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the
death of the Lord until he comes." (1Cor 11:26)

Paul didn't say "and/or" no, he said "and". Jesus also said "and" rather then
"and/or".

Rome was not only seriously negligent back in the day, but also grossly
incompetent. It couldn't even conduct something as simple and straight
forward as the Lord's Supper without screwing it up.

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