The Catholic Church is a fraud. It has corrupted the Lord's Supper, which is to be shared by all believers in that the ordinary member cannot take his share of the bread. The priest puts the wafer in the person's mouth. Also the priest withholds the wine from the members, while Jesus said that we all drink of it.
When Christ instituted the Eucharist in the Upper Room, He gave the Apostles communion under both species (bread and wine). Every bishop and priest, when offering the Eucharist, is required to communicate under both species. Thus the men to whom Christ instituted the Eucharist and their successors do receive under both forms. His instruction for the institution of the Eucharist was to these men exclusively, as is evident from His further words to those present, “Do this in commemoration of me.”
So what about the lay people? Because of the
hypostatic union, the Church teaches that Christ is contained whole and entire under each species. This means that whoever communicates under the species of bread or of wine receives not a divided Christ, but receives Christ whole and entire, body and blood, soul and Divinity. Therefore the lay person who receives only the consecrated bread partakes as equally of the body and blood of Christ as the officiating bishop or deacon who receives both consecrated species.
When our Lord first instructs his followers on the Eucharist in His bread of life discourse, He actually makes no reference to the chalice (cup), but rather only to the Eucharistic bread, to which He ascribes all the efficacy which communion leads to. The reason, we can say, is because we receive the glorified Christ, whose flesh and blood cannot be divided.
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I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and
the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" Then Jesus said to them: "Amen, amen, I say unto you: unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
As the living Father has sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eats me, the same also shall live by me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers ate manna and are dead. He that eats this bread shall live for ever." (John 6:51-58)
We then have the example of St. Paul, clarifying the Church's teaching from antiquity. The Apostle confirms that if a man communicates unworthily, under
either species, he is guilty of the body
and blood of Christ.
"Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread,
OR drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body AND of the blood of the Lord." (1 Cor 11:27)
Also, the Mass is a corruption because it teaches that Jesus is sacrificed over and over again, while the Scripture says that He was sacrificed once and for all when he suffered and died on the Cross.
This notion is rooted in the metaphysics of
Nominalism which heavily influenced many of the Protestant reformers. First of all, Catholics do not believe Christ is sacrificed over and over again. He cannot be. His sacrifice was once for all, as Scripture (and the historical record) attests. (cf. Heb 10:10)
Catholics do not believe Christ is re-sacrificed. We believe His sacrifice is re-presented to us and made present to us in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the fulfillment of the Old Testament todah sacrifice, which like the Eucharist, consisted of wheat flour and wine. It was offered by Melchizedek when he blessed the Patriarch Abraham in Gen 14. We are told Christ is a priest of the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7) and like him, as well as David and Jonah (who vowed to offer a todah sacrifice if delivered from death), the sacrifice on Calvary begins with the todah sacrifice offered by Christ in the Upper Room. Christ died once in human history, but the application of His death is for all time and for all people. St. Paul clearly says the Christian participates (communicatio) with the body and blood of Christ at the "table of the Lord." He again compares the "table of the Lord" with the "table of demons" which the pagans offer their sacrifices on. Additionally, the author of Hebrews clearly says Christians worship God
at the altar:
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We have an altar of our own, and it is not those who carry out the worship of the tabernacle that are qualified to eat its sacrifices. When the high priest takes the blood of beasts with him into the sanctuary, as an offering for sin, the bodies of those beasts have to be burned, away from the camp; and thus it was that Jesus, when he would sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered beyond the city gate. Let us, too, go out to him away from the camp, bearing the ignominy he bore; we have an everlasting city, but not here; our goal is the city that is one day to be. It is through him, then, that we must offer to God a continual sacrifice of praise, the tribute of lips that give thanks to his name." (Heb 13:10-15)
The word "altar" used by the author is
thysiastērion, which is a compound word of two Greek words meaning "
fixed place of sacrifice."
Also, the CC has elevated Mary to be the Queen of Heaven, which is nothing more than a pagan idol, while the real Mary is her spirit in Paradise awaiting, along with all other believers, for the resurrection at the second coming of Christ.
The Church did not elevate Mary, God Himself did by choosing her to give a human nature to Jesus Christ.
As for being queen, in Jewish custom the Queen is not the King's wife, but rather the King's mother. Jesus Christ being King makes Mary the Queen.
The true church is invisible, made up of all those genuinely converted to Christ. With everything that is true from the Spirit of God, there is the counterfeit which is designed to deceive people and draw them away from the truth of the Gospel of Christ. The Pope has usurped the role of the Holy Spirit, Who is the true vicar of Christ.
In reality when Jesus comes again, the whole of the CC will be exposed as wood, hay, and stubble, and will be burned up, and those who put their trust in it rather than in the finished work of Christ on the Cross, will perish along with it.
Jesus Christ is present whenever the Eucharist is offered. (cf. 1 Cor 10:16) It is the normative means by which man has
communion with God.
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and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Mt. 28:20)
