Why the Eucharist is NOT a Symbol (Fr. Mike's Sunday Homily)
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2022
- Taken from Fr. Mike's Homily for Corpus Christi Sunday
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“Phagos” and “trogos”; the two Greek words Jesus used in that passage. One more intense and literal than the other as Jesus doubles down on truth beyond human understanding. The Holy Eucharist is the greatest Gift our God has given us.
This ⬆️
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QUINTUPLED down.💪🏼🏋🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
What does trogos mean?
Greater than the Death of Jesus on the cross ?
This verse is what changed everything for me. Staunch anti Catholic for years. Changed in an instant when the blinders fell from my eyes. ❤ Praise God for His kindness to me and leading me out of darkness and misunderstanding. 🙏🏼
Thank you for being such a comforting Priest. When I think of Jesus sometimes I feel scared but you help me feel connected to understand Jesus on his everlasting love. Thank you
BLESSED BE FOREVER THE SACRED PASSION AND DEATH and RESSURECTION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 🙏 Amen
All praise and glory to Our Lord Jesus Christ!!! Thank you Father Mike!!
AMEN!! and Protestants keep on saying "His physical body is in heaven. You cannot eat it" as if God has no power to do so. when He said, it is His body, then it is HIS body.
God cannot be outdone in humility. If God can humble Himself and become flesh yet remain 100% God, then He can become bread and wine, and still be 100% God.
the only "Protestants" who say that are Evangelicals, and that is being extremely generous given their ahistoric connection to the Reformation
Technically Jesus said this (“this” being the bread and wine he was actually holding AT THE LAST SUPPER) is my body and blood. He didn’t say the bread and wine that priest is holding 2,000 years from now is my body and blood. This is my hangup. Someone please explain.
@cl8505 A thousand years is like a day to the Lord God Almighty. Remember that to God all things past present and future are in front of Him. He is Omnipresent. Therefore, 2000 years or 10000 years or this very minute are all present and now to Him. That's something we humans struggle to understand because of our physical limitations. That's why those with some spiritual gifts can get to know some future events, past or something happening in the present because for that brief moment, they are linked to spiritual channels and are able to see or perceive somethings that aren't in that moment.
It's the same Jesus 2000 years ago that is now and will be in the end of time.
It's the same sacrifice on the cross that we link to during the liturgy of the Eucharist.
So whenever a priest says those same words, the same thing happens ***time is of no consequence in these moments****.
I absolutely love our Lord who feeds me every day and I absolutely love you dear father Mike to preach the truth.
God love you
Thank you father for this inspiring words from God...and Thank you for being a Priest... without you there is NO EUCHARIST to be consecrated NO Reconciliation and No absolution. Thank you ☺️
Happy Feast of Corpus Christy
Preaching the word to everyone on CZcams!! I hope this reaches everybody it needs to.
Lord Jesus when we enter into your presence in prayer we open our spirit to receive the brightness of your love. Lord fill us with your love and presence as of wait upon you. Radiate through us and touch others with your love and peace. 🙏
Jesus, your WORD is truth and life 🙏🙏🙏
Amen
Works are the incarnation of faith. ❤️🙏❤️
And when he says: “this is my body” I decide to trust him. - and the hundreds of Eucharistic Miracles is His way say. John 10:38 if you don’t believe Jesus, believe His works!
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Amen
“This” was the exact bread and wine he was holding that night in the upper room. He wasn’t referring to the bread and wine that some priest is holding 2,000 years later. This is my one Hangup! Please explain how the bread and wine at any mass any day is the same thing as the bread and wine that Jesus actually said was his body and blood. I’m not trying to argue I’m genuinely trying to be convinced. Thank you!
@@cl8505 But you're already decided. You're convinced it isn't.
My question is, do you see how it wasn't just symbolic when Jesus spoke in John 6:51?
@@SonicSnakeRecords I have not made any final decisions. But again, in John 6:51 he says "whoever eats THIS bread". Why do you believe that "THIS bread" means ANY eucharist bread being consecrated by a priest in any mass service? Why is it not JUST the bread that Jesus was literally holding in his hands that exact moment he said that quote? I truly want to understand. Please do not confuse my desire to understand WHY the eucharist is consecrated regularly for wanting to understand HOW the eucharist is transformed into Jesus' body and blood. I simply want to know WHY it is done at all when it appears Jesus was talking about "THIS" bread that he was literally holding in his hands in the upper room. Again, I am not trying to argue or make assumptions I just want to understand the logic. I understand there is a mystery to the faith but if there is an answer I would love to hear it. Thank you.
Amen thank you Jesus amen.
I use to doubt the Eucharist but after reading 1 Corinthians 11:24-30 I got the revelation that Jesus is what he says he is in the bread and wine. Now I cheerfully attend Mass and it is amazing.
One of my absolute favorites 😍 I have heard this a few times I literally grabbed my whole family and had them watch Fr. Talk about the holy Eucharist. Puts it simply but profoundly!
I like you care about your family. Thank you for being yourself.
I go beyond praying to God; I actively pursue truth. For example, I've studied the Bible: "God is not man "Numbers 23:19" God's nature must align with basic logic and reason." God cannot die, as He is eternal. Don't reject the truth just because you dislike who said it!
Protestants, listen up!
THIS is why I left the Southern Baptist - their doctrine had no answer for John 6 other than to say Jesus was speaking figuratively.
Wrong I'll explain Bibically. John 15:4-7 God speaks of being the vine and we are the branch an obvious Metaphor. John 6:52-59 God states as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever. It's a metaphor to listen and believe in Jesus Christ our God and you shall have ever lasting life. The woman at the well was told of the living water that Jesus could provide. John 4:14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life. Just as in John 6:56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. John 15:4 Remain in me, and I in you. Just as a branch is unable to produce fruit by itself unless it remains on the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.
So to recap remain in Jesus Christ our Lord and King and he will remain in you. Listen and learn from his word by partaking of his living water, his flesh, his blood which are all metaphors for digesting God's Word. Who's the Word? John 1:1 is the answer. Incase you're still wondering why then not just tell the jews this given its strictly forbidden to drink blood or eat flesh with blood still in it? Because Jesus was on his way to Calvary. The Jewish people already wanted to make him their King to over throw the Roman strong hold oppressing them. With these statements though they were blind and deaf to God's words. That's why he used so many metaphors everytime he spoke. God had a mission and it wasn't to come down and being ruler over man by his almighty authority as our creator. God the Father sent his only begotten Son to be payment for our sins that we be seen as righteous infront of our Father God. Through his sacrifice we were made whole and only through Jesus will we every obtain everlasting life and be with the Father. This priest is wrong and the reasoning is as blind as the Jews that proceed them. If you'd like further break down beyond what I've provided by all means read it yourselves. Take notes and use a cross-reference Bible. Good study Bibles are NIV, CSB, ESV, NASB. If your like me have a dictionary near by. Bibles listed in order of difficulty NASB being as close to Interlinear Bible which is WORD FOR WORD.
@@KSTrekker Your explanation is below.
@@BigLazyMexican
You’re very misinformed. Each time Jesus repeated himself, the original word for “eat” in Aramaic became more and more graphic, with the final time saying a word that meant “to gnaw on like an animal.“ That’s as literal as you can get. They were getting ready to stone him to death for insisting that he meant what he said. You need an RCIA course to set you straight.
@@BigLazyMexican so you're completely throwing away him Calling the Eucharist his body and blood right?
Nice one 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jesus loves you and is with you
Amen, Father. You are so right.
Thank you father
Watch the full homily here: czcams.com/video/5PXF2jwV5bI/video.html
You should pin this!
Hebrews 10 refutes everything you've stated.
[Having established His metaphor (and the fact that He is speaking of faith in Him), Jesus presses the symbolism even further: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and this bread, which I will offer so the world may live, is my flesh. . . . I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you cannot have eternal life within you. But anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life. . . . My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Anyone who eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. . . . Anyone who feeds on me will live because of me” (John 6:51-56, NLT).To prevent being misconstrued, Jesus specifies that He has been speaking metaphorically: “The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you-they are full of the Spirit and life” (John 6:63). Those who misunderstood Jesus and were offended by His talk about eating His flesh and drinking His blood were stuck in a physical mindset, ignoring the things of the Spirit. They were concerned with getting another physical meal, so Jesus uses the realm of the physical to teach a vital spiritual truth. Those who couldn’t make the jump from the physical to the spiritual turned their backs on Jesus and walked away (verse 66).]
Amen, I know that the Eucharist is the precious Body & Blood of our Savior Jesus Christ.🕊🙏🕊❤
Amazing! Then, every time u take communion, u r sending a piece of Jesus to the sewer.
Amen 🙏❤️
Please also pray for me and my family. We're down to our last cent and badly need miracles. If by any chance, you have some extra blessings to share to a stranger, we could really use your help right now. Only if you can. We've been at the rock bottom for a long time, that its badly affecting us mentally and even emotionally. 💔
Reach out to Jesus and our Holy Mother. I will pray for you as well. Jesus is the great comforter.
@@Catholiclady3 thank you for praying. I truly need this. GOD bless you always. ❤️
@@PleaseViewMyChannel of Course!! God bless you and your family ❤️
Thank you Father Schmitz for explaining sometimes we don't quite understand certain things that have been read to us many times but we need a more thorough explanation.🙏🏻⚘
Not to mention He says, this IS My body and this IS My blood
He also says I AM the door, I AM the vine, etc.
@@octogintillion no one is claiming Jesus is just a symbol
Live Truth Live Catholic
From a very young age, Lord Jesus Christ I already Acknowledge you, I am not worthy of thy mercy for I’ve sinned a great mortal sin and way too much sinning. I love you Jesus Christ
Yeah, “whoever eats my flesh and drink my blood, has eternal life and I will raise him in the last day.” ‘Cuz we must be in state of grace to receive Him so we must always maintain ourselves in Grace.
Amen Amen Amen! Thank you father for sharing! Especially in this difficult time where this secret is often questioned….I am following your channel for some time, god bless you and your work here! It is so important 🙏🙏 greetings from Austria!🤗
Sharing is important and helps us get close to Jesus and understand him so he is not this just Omnipresent supervening but the man that died on the cross
@@indykkowalski9366St. Paul taught that the Eucharist was not merely a symbol that represented Jesus but that to receive the Eucharist was to receive Jesus himself. In the previous chapter he said, “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?” (1 Cor. 10:16). Likewise, the transgression involved in receiving the Eucharist in an unworthy state led to many of the Corinthians becoming sick or dying (1 Cor. 11:30).
Brilliant and at the last supper He THIS bread is my body after prayer the Eucharist
Jesus I love you ...
Such a great, easy to comprehend explanation. ❤️🙏
So GOOD!
One of the better arguments I’ve heard. It is true that it’s written in the Torah that the life of a creature is in its blood. In consuming the blood of Christ we are taking in His life. But I still think that there is a spiritual reality alongside a material reality, which is why the wine still tastes and behaves like wine as far as we can physically examine.
What you’re talking about is form versus substance. The Eucharist is the substance of Jesus’ body and blood in the form of bread and wine
Thank you Father
JESUS, MY ALL IN ALL.
John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Amen! Yes Lord Jesus I believe!!!
This priest really breaks it down. I am still protestant just sorting out these truths. There's alot. Understanding the role of Mary, confession, the Eucharist. The catholic faith seems so rich.
Just reach out to a catholic priest near you, Will guide you Way forward & answer your questions… the truth Will set you free. May the Holy Ghost lead you & dont fear, in God sanctuary there is peace.. Note in Catholic faith, we teach & its your free Will to choose to follow or unfollow.. so just go & learn you wont be forced to join the Church if you dont feel like🙏✝️❤️🔥
Don't be deceived! Read the Word. Run away from that man-made institution that is the RCC. don't believe the lies!
Don't fall for it lies. Exactly! Rich in ceremonie & ritual, what pple like. It pushes u away from Jesus. I left the rcc when I was 25. Best decision ever.
@@mpkropf5062 I was raised catholic
@@carolinajackson7621 I’m praying for you to return. Only those who didn’t know their faith will leave it. Not only are they leaving the Church of Jesus but most importantly they leave the Eucharist which cannot be partaken outside of the Church! Which is His body and blood! I seen it in a vision with my own eyes during Mass! So no one can tell me that it’s not truly His Body and Blood! Many others have experienced visions as well. Protestants have so many lies about the Church and about Blessed Mother which they will give account for when they stand before Him! I wonder what they will say when He asks “ Why did you not honor My Mother?!” They can’t honor someone they never talk about! And they also never talk about His Father! Only at Christmas do they say “ The Father sent His only Son and that Virgin Mary gave birth!” As a ex- Protestant I didn’t know the Father until I left Protestant faith and started listening to Messianic Rabbi’s teachings on the Father! You will never know Him in a Protestant church! I will continue to pray for you to return home! With Christ all things are possible!
I still don’t understand how Protestants can read John 6 and not believe in the Eucharist.
Please check my post in the main comment section. FYI not a protestant or Baptist or anything. Just a Christian who was former Catholic till I tested everything against the Bible and saw past the lies and man made doctrine Catholic Church puts into everything. But again I bring receipts aka the Bible and verses to back up everything I state. God bless.
@@BigLazyMexican my man, read Ignatius of Antioch who was a disciple of the apostle John and appointed as bishop by one who was appointed by the Apostle Peter. Ignatius states:
“Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions on the grace of Jesus Christ which has come to us, and see how contrary their opinions are to the mind of God. . . . They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which that Father, in his goodness, raised up again. They who deny the gift of God are perishing in their disputes” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans 6:2-7:1 [A.D. 110]). Repent man.
Another proof. Protestants believe the 2nd coming is near, well if that is true satan is here and the Catholic church, families, and the innocent are His targets, yet not the protestants. There is a reason for that. Jesus and His church have always had yo fight the good spiritual fight of corruption, persecution, and haters. Yet they are left alone? Because satan's job has been successful in branching off of God's true church. Their "churches" aren't being targeting by pro choice groups. Their is a reason they are stealing and vandalizing tabernacles, they are demonic and know where Jesus dwells. I have at least 50 more proofs if these 2 aren't good enough
@@BigLazyMexican You know that things like what you did are a reason why there are like 1000 different christian denominations claiming l understood the Bible
@@BigLazyMexican well the canon of the Bible was made on 383 the first time. Did you check what the Church taught about the Eucharist up until that point to even now today?😎
🙏 amen
You are amazing! Thank you and God bless you in your ministry 🥰💕
Amen... Thank you Fr. Mike.
Bring the blood back to mass. Some of us think he meant what he said, and if so we are not worried about covid. The blood of Christ, not something we can live without
The consecrated host is Christ's body and blood.
You receive the body, blood, soul, and divinity in both forms though
I agree there is blood being served at some American churches like St Cyril’s but in my Polish church no. It’s something to consider. But we have to do it effectively too!
@@indykkowalski9366 where does the blood come from?
We receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord , entirely, in both species.
Thank you Father 🙏🏻
Thank you lord jesus christ amen..
Belief in transubstantiation is one of the reasons for the Reformation.
BOOM! Father Mike a swears another question I ask myself every time I go to Church. Your awesome Father, keep on doing what your doing.
Thank you Father Mike ❤
This is the work of God, that you believe in the one He sent. John 6:29.
Excellent!!!
Thank you Father!
amen 🙏💞
Not only does he not correct them but he doubles down on it!!
Thanks Fr. Mike! It is awesome that the Creator ergo Master of all matter commanded the matter that comprised the bread and wine to become His edible Body and Blood. Yay GOD!!!
Thank you for reading and insight.
Perfect explanation!!! 🙏🙏🙏 I love it, Father!
God Bless you 🙏
Amen!
God is my everything 🙏
You are a living breathing work of God
Awesome point Fr. Mike. Your talks are a combination of sermons and apologetics, quite unique. 🤺 Thank you!
Thank you.
Beautifully illustrated, Padre!!
Thanks!
This passage has confused Roman Catholics for 2000 years.
No it hasn't.
Catholics, (no such thing as 'Roman' Catholics) have never been confused.
We know what true faith is.
If God could create this beautiful universe out of nothing, then why can't He change bread and wine into His own body and blood?
Amen 🙏❤️
Amen ❤️🙏
AMEN 🙏🙇🏻❤️
Jesus is the branch and I’m the flower 🌹
Amen
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Amen it's the Real Jesus!
Amen.
Fr Achmit . I wish you could come and meet. Take care
Amen 🙏
Amen 🙏🏼
Keep reading... Jesus said his words are spirit...."The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life."
John 6:63
You didn't read the last sentence. It says The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. So his words are spirit and life. So him saying it's his flesh is his flesh and his flesh gives life means this is True. What comes from God's voice is spirit and life and is Truth. It's like saying God didn't heal the centurion daughter because his words don't have spirit and life. But in fact Jesus just said the word and she was healed. That word that came from his lips is spirit and life. It's Truth.
I believe 😊
Amen… Viva Cristo Rey ❤
Amen🙏🙏🙏🌹
Those were the Pharisees! His disciples knew that Jesus was speaking spiritually and did NOT leave!
Christ be with you
read the bible before you make silly comments.
it was disciples who left.
From this time many of his *disciples* turned back and no longer followed him.
“You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.
Simon Peter answered him, *“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.
We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”*
His apostles didn't think it was a symbol they just believed know He is Truth,
Come to Christ and live
Revelation 3:16 is the hint of the Eucharist been taken by early Christians after Peter's martyrdom and Peter's generation. Many church leaders are historically known to have procedures of taking Eucharist. In fact, they were opinions, among early church fathers, of accepting it in open hand(s) or open mouth by kneeling. Even Paul himself gave a hint of the previous with kneeling (Ephesians 3:14).
From my understanding, when Jesus broke the bread and passed the wine around at the last supper he had transformed it with his spirit through God’s will. So it became what he said it was. Flesh of him and blood of him. It means that it is not just symbolic. Jesus did not tell anyone that it was symbolic. He said that it is his body and blood, it must be through his transforming of their elements that results in them being his body and blood for us to take in reverence. Otherwise he would have literally said that they were only symbolic and not really him.
His disciples having become His detractors in Jn 6 knew He was not speaking literally, yet they used His words to dismiss Him because they became disenchanted with Him and began to leave.
Under rite of Melquisedek said that so in 4 days we'll be able to have him in spirit and flesh every bread fraction
So glad to have left the mystery babylon religion. No regrets.
And this is exactly what he did with the Born Again thing. When he was asked if you have to enter your mother's womb again, he cleared it up, and not simply reiterated it
You’re correct…it is the same. However, He cleared this up too… “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.” (John 6:63)
@@jennybee2ful very true. It's not just his body. It's his resurrected glorified body in heaven in the eucharist
@@smart_joey_4179 His sacrifice on the cross was not enough?
@@jennybee2ful I was more than enough. One drop of blood from Jesus would have been enough
@@smart_joey_4179 then why do Catholics Re-sacrifice Christ every mass?
Instead of disagreements over this can we all just take communion in remembrance of Him?
No..not unless you believe
The Transubstantiation occurs only in a Catholic Mass when the Priest blesses the bread and wine transforming into the Body and Blood Of Jesus Christ. 1 Cor 11:23-29, Jn 6:52,54-59.
Communion is not simply a remembrance of Christ. It’s not a tribute. The host is him. The wine is him. This is where Catholicism differs from Christianity-the sacraments.
As stated below, "protestants listen up. " so if He wants us to do this He must have given us a way... The Catholic church.
The disciples would have been hesitant if they thought it was legit blood\flesh. John later was still concerned to eat regular unclean food
Yes !! Amen
Just because they don’t think he’s speaking symbolically doesn’t mean he isn’t
But Jesus never corrected them, He let them leave. Obviously Jesus wouldn’t let anyone leave Him because of a misunderstanding
At the well, Jesus told the Samaritan woman that he offered living water. He said that if she drank this water, she would never thirst again & she was confused whether literal or symbolic. So i think the eucharist is symbolic like the living water. Love Father Mike❤( just disagree on this point.)
Jesus the carpenter is building a new Earth and Heavens for us right now. And the foundation is constructed of the same gems that God had covered lucifer with before he fell. 💙🙏🏻💙
Do this in “remembrance” of me.
Amen!!!!!🙏
Jesus said He’s the living bread, the bread He gives is His FLESH, unless we eat His Flesh & drink His Blood, WE WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN US.If we eat & drink of Him UNWORTHILY, WE WILL BE LIABLE & BRING A SENTENCE AGAINST OURSELVES FOR NOT DISCERNING IT TO BE THE BODY & BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, OUR GOD & SAVIOR. Jn6:51-59, 1Cor 11:23-29
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