/lit/ - Literature

>>12617432
It's the literal Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. Normally it's veiled under the signs (the accidents) of bread, and also of wine. But every now and then, its true nature is allowed to manifest itself, so that the faithful can be reminded of what it really is. It is the Flesh of God, the Bread of Angels, Divine food. One of the greatest gifts God has ever given humanity.

"Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his Blood, you shall not have life within you."

>>11645152
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>>11645222
Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life within you.

>>11482177
You joke, but any one of these priests are capable of administering the Sacraments, including the Eucharist. This makes them among the most valuable people on Earth.

>Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

>At this, the Jews began to argue among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

>So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is real food, and My blood is real drink.

>Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

>>11202045
Fuck off, fuck off, fuck all of you heretics and pagans and Protestants and fuckers.

I am literally prepared to die for the Blessed Sacrament. I will get on my knees and I will be shot in the head over the literal Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. And if that happens, I'll see you all on the Last Day, when Christ rewards all those who were faithful to Him to the very end.

This is not some fucking joke.

>ctrl+f "eucharist"
>0 of 0

You absolute fuckers. The Eucharist is literally the most important reason to go to Mass. The Body and Blood of Christ is among the greatest gifts mankind has ever been given, and it's given away for free every Sunday. That's what church "does for you."

>>10156680
Christ prevails against all odds. The Church will also. Have faith.

>>10117313
Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you shall not have life within you.

>>10021313
And there's a great extent to which God and Christ is still mysterious to us, even today. Our theology is built on Scripture, which we rely upon because we trust that Scripture contains an element of revelation--that is, knowledge transmitted to mankind directly from God. So, basically, all we know about God is what he's told us and shown us. What little is beyond that is merely further deductions we've made by taking Scripture and applying our reason to it, and then trusting that God must be rational.

This is why faith is so important. Faith is a kind of private revelation. Through faith we know beyond knowing that God is real, that Christ rose from the dead, and the Christianity is true. It is God's direct communication with us, a sign of his continued activity in the world; it's a candle flame kindled in our souls, and from that light we may read all things, Scripture and the rest of the world, in the light they're meant to be seen in.

>>9721541
>Despair has no place in Christianity.

Well, of course not, not in true Christianity. How can you sincerely believe the Gospels and feel anything but joy?

>>9604392
Just keep plugging those ears and closing those eyes, Anon.

Reminder that the Catholic Church is literally founded by God made flesh, while all the Protestant Churches are founded by nutters and shitters and scat fetishists.

I've received a string of encouraging rejections of my material, both short stories and novel. Rejections saying that the magazine or the agent were intrigued and interested by my work, but couldn't quite sign off on it.

I feel like I'm close. I'm on the verge of turning the corner and bursting out into grandeur and glory as a writer. I hope I am, anyway. I do love to write, and I do love to write for its own sake, but I desperately want to be great, too. I crave renown. I want glory as a writer. Maybe it's wrong to think this way, but I can't help it. I want to tower over this age as its greatest writer. I know I've got the talent. I just need the chance.

>tfw recent string of 'encouraging' rejections
>tfw magazines and websites and agents telling me they like me, and to keep submitting

I'm close. I'm going to get there. I'm close to breaking out.

>>8970331
>this triggers the Protestant