My New Communion Views 🍷 🍞 Francis Chan Explains The Eucharist 

The Lord is doing it but you are refusing. Join His Church that is the Catholic Church, there is no other way.

As a child baptized catholic who left in my late teens and wandered in the wilderness of Protestantism for 20 years and returned to the Catholic Church a year ago. Just come home man. It’s time for one whole body of Christ. Not this splintered confusion. There won’t be perfection and total agreement until Jesus returns. But at least the family can be back together!

@@lefooo not RCC: Protestants are in the Catholic ( Universal) church.

Where was his presence before the conversation, had he left?

@@mattcaron4043 we're you baptized or saved?

Simple find a Protestant Church that observe Eucharist

Browse Lutheran Dr.Taylor Marshall and Protestant Dr. Scott Hahn.

@@MichElle-zc9tu I believe both Taylor Marshall and Scott Hahn are Catholics.

It appears Francis Chan is now bowing to the "host." He will probably join the demonic idolatrous guys on Pints with Aquinas sometime in the future and worship the man-made bread in the monstrance while reciting the Rosary, the other idolatrous ritual Catholics adore. "Worship of the Eucharist...the cult of adoration" = IDOLATRY! (Catechism 1378)

Agreed

Go go go! And the counsel of Trent podcast!

Absolutely!😊

So did I, and we were always told to examine ourselves prior to partaking of communion.

That's interesting, and a good idea, in fact, St. Paul commands it.

I think that "examine themselves" for time of repentence is a gross misunderstanding of "examine yourself"...I believe it was a recent invention. I'm charismatic Anglican, who presently attends an AoG and that is never part of it. The confession of sin comes prior in the service. The examining yourself is to know Christ died for you, "the blood of Christ keep you in eternal life" is said as you receive the bread and wine.

@@Liminalplace1 Brother Paul, you have a very valid point, but I don't think it comes in the right spirit. St. Paul is pretty clear--examine yourself to see if you be in the faith. That is almost certainly his point as he says, "not discerning the Lord's body," here body carrying the dual meaning of the literal death of the Son of Man AND his church. However, we should point out, more toward the topic at hand, that Paul seems to be affirming some kind of real presence. And then we have the old problem of conflating "repentance" and "contrition," two related but somewhat different ideas that the following scripture really irons out well: "For godly sorrow (contrition) brings about a repentance (a change of heart and mind) not to be repented of."

@@duncescotus2342 rather than elaborate on my point I'd just point out a few points in regard to your references. The context of Pauls "examine yourself in 2 Cor 13:5 isn't communion and it's also whether you are "in the faith" not in sin etc. Just different context. Also 2 Cor 7:10 passage on "godly sorrow leads to repentence"is horizontal repentance towards Paul as their apostle. Horizontal Reconciliation if you like. . "Discerning the body" 1 Cor 11v 29 seems to be an abbreviation for "the body and blood of the Lord from v 27. How that connection is made is another matter Generally on "repentance" towards God, I think Luther nailed it down. It's contrition for original sin..not so much specific sins which I think you mean by examining oneself prior to taking Communion.

As a Catholic we are to understand that the unity of the body of Christ was never lost. God bless.

what sect do you belong to?

Amen!!!

Such a late reply to this... But I get this!! The loneliness for Jesus.... Ah! Thank you for giving me some words.

Honest question, I visited my friend's Catholic Church and only the priest drank Jesus' blood. Why not the whole congregation?

@@TheNarrowPath40 I agree, I can’t take communion cause I’m not catholic so I can’t answer that but fair to ask!

I hope you have not been re-baptized - Nicene Creed - We believe in one baptism for the giveness of sins.

Glory to Jesus Christ! Welcome home!!

@@lpcruz5661 there is only one baptism, and that is an Orthodox one.

@@NoeticInsight Baptism does not belong to a group, it belongs to Christ. Re-baptism is not catholic, nor orthodox. In fact, it is sectarian.

Welcome home! ☦️

Good times. I feel you!

Same!!! Watch Infant Baptism is next for Francis!

@@christianb164 That's going to be much tougher. The waywardness of the Anabaptists, and their many more obvious heretical tendencies caused all--Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed--to reject their most salient characteristic, which was believer's baptism, a practice which likely goes back to the early church. This practice is now cemented in Evangelical tradition.

Loved coming across your comment.

The Augburg Confession was also when the "Evangelical" church was one, unified. So on Chan's logical it ought to be accepted also. As an Anglican I'd concur

Oh, he knows it (now).

@@TroyNiemeier, well, then, good! He finds the truth. Finally.

He is Orthodox in Spirit

Thus the push back. We pray that many people think deeply about Catholicism

@@seanchaney3086, why do you think so? Can you pls explain? Thanks.

Here’s a very important thing to understand… Hebrew 10:14. As a former Catholic, I thought I had to keep on working. However, the blood of Christ covers all my sin - past, present, and future. Teelestai - paid in full!

​@@randywhitely6070 great Protestants become Catholic; poorly catechized Catholics become Protestant. Research the early fathers of the Church such as Sts. Iranaeus, Justin Martyr and Augustine. Come home to Rome. We need all the remnant to kick out the heretics and apostates out of the Vatican and cleanse the Church Christ founded.

​@randywhitely6070 Yeah, your sins were paid for in full but you don't have insurance if you continue to sin. For the soul that sinnet shall die. And you must work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

​@Pius Ochigbo Christian the lang language is work out (santification) not work for (justification) read the whole Hebrews to understand the whole context.

You should explore Orthodoxy

You have got to give The Bible In a Year podcast with Father Mike Schmitz a try! He gives a lot of context to help with understanding the old testament

Perhaps most Protestants aren’t familiar with what the early church fathers believed, but then what have Catholics and orthodox done to the beliefs of polycarp, Augustine, Irenaeus? Displayed utter disdain for their theology on the doctrine of substitutionary atonement, salvation, election, etc.

Because the early church worship saints and Mary therefore committing heretics teachings.

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@@MrLegionofmanSo you’re calling the Apostles and their direct successors heretics?! Goodness! Please read the early fathers with an open mind without your Protestant assumptions, and then read Dr Scott Hahn and Dr Brant Pitre, that should change your mind.

This is a lie from the PIT of hell, God bless you @@MrLegionofman

Sadly you didn't study all of Church history

I too studied church history at Liberty University, a Protestant evangelical college, and was led by the Holy Spirit to the Catholic Church.

@@dallasbrat81what are you talking about? You are learning in an echo chamber if you don’t see the Catholic Church in church history.

@@lesliejamieson6781 haha yes the Catholic Church did some good in Western Civilization but now it’s a failure . Why do only 30% of Catholics go to mass regularly and why do over 50% of Catholics love abortion and want gay marriage in Catholic Churches. Pew Research 2024

@@lesliejamieson6781 yes I see the good and bad . I see wicked bishops and popes . I also see good ones nothing special

Yes! Scott Hahn, Trent Horn, Tim Staples, Jimmy Akin , Brant Pitre , Steve Ray, many of who are converts from Protestantism to Catholicism and are very much evangelical Catholics, would be great guests.

Agreed! The list goes on! Dr. Mary Healy, Dr. Ralph Martin, Peter Herbeck, Father Ed Fride, Bishop Peter Smith, Neal Lozano, Alicia Hartle, and more!

Christs church is already united. Outsiders (Mormons, JW, Catholics etc.) Are not and never will be a part of Christs church because they invent a Christ that does not exist, they deny foundational teachings of Christ and yet ask for unity? If you dont know what I'm talking about youre part of the problem. Read Gods Word and it will be clear

Catholic doctrine teaches a different Gospel than the Bible. If Remnant wants to be taken serious they should say clear of false doctrines.

@@TS-ee7jxNo they don’t. The New Testament is the same with Catholic bibles and Protestant.

The only thing I’m questioning about the Eucharist “ushering in the presence of Christ” is that Christ already dwells in me, therefore his presence is constant. If you say the Eucharist ushers in his presence you’re essentially saying that his presence is absent apart from it. How does this make biblical sense? Doesn’t Christ dwell within us? Aren’t we continually in his presence? How can the body EVER be separated from the head??

Amen!

Francis Chann, i know that you WILL become a Catholic!!! You are on the cusp...and i know Jesus will bring you home according to His Divine Will and through the promptings of the Holy Spirit. Amen 18 June 2023

​@@isabelguilherme6194amen to that!

So wonderful. Come to a Catholic Church and witness the consecration of the True Presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ ! And one day, God willing, you can partake when you have been received into the Church. I will pray for you :-)

This is something I also learned. As a kid living with several family members and brought to different churches I always saw communion as a symbol. But I never even saw it be done in churches except in the Roman Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church. This year I decided to get closer to God and actually had that born again experience. It’s so beautiful, and I attend a Nondenominational Church where we take communion once a month. At first it felt odd, because I wasnt used of this. But when I read it in scripture and historically I realized how communion can really be real presence. Now I understand that this was always believed. Now when I take communion I actually take it very serious now. And feel that presence. And I love that brothers and sisters in Christ take part of this together. Although I believe in real presence, it doesn’t necessarily means that you have to believe in transubstantiation which is what Roman Catholicism made a dogma and if you don’t believe it you are Anathema. I’m not saying it’s bad to believe it, the early Church had different views of real presence but never made it a dogma to believe one view and condemn the rest. I still love my Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox brothers and sisters in Christ. We have different views but still believe in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, God the Father, and our Helper the Holy Spirit.

​@@isabelguilherme6194I think better then that would be if he helped to build the bridge that reunites protestant with Catholic. The division healed and the two branches reconnected 🙏🙏🙏

Jesus truly wanted to stay with us in a physical way because that's what love demands. We can never outdo God in love. Hence why the Eucharist makes so much sense. In last supper Jesus never said this is a symbol of me rather this IS me.

​@Anna-yb4yr how do you take that verse and apply it to the last supper? No one in 1500yrs ever done that except protestants.

Become Catholic.

@Anna You're very confused. Sad

​@@Jesus_is_the_only_Way246 Yes, if Jesus said the bread and wine was and is His body and blood then it is. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? - 1 Corinthians 10:16 In the bread and wine we share in and receive together the blood and body of Christ. This has been the view for 1500+ years. Has the truth of the gospel failed for 1500+ years?

Pray for me please. I'm seeking Orthodoxy. God bless.☦🙏

Do pray for Francis. He has been struggling with himself for a long time, trying to convince himself from the outside looking in.

I am from an Oriental Orthodox background which is very close to Eastern Orthodoxy. And I have been studying the Bible, walking according to the Word and watching various denominations around the world especially Orthodoxy for many decades I can say for sure you are departing from truth as the Lord prophesied. We are living in a post truth era and people depart from truth very fast.

What about just being grafted into the vine. Becoming a part of Israel. Understanding that, walking in the truth and blessing thereof. And walking in truth.

Awesome! My wife and I became catechumen last summer. Looking forward to our baptism and finally being able to partake of the holy communion.

Please look into Eucharistic Miracles. There's a great book by Joan Carroll Cruz.

November 20, 1984 is the day Jesus saved me from myself. God is good.

Cradle catholic nothing else will satisfy my soul because of Transubstantiation ❤

I always thought of him that way too😊❤

Amen I’m doing rcia starting soon and I know bf or sure I want to go to confession before the Eucharist

Yes! After baptism and followed by confirmation. All of the sacraments are important. May God continue to bless Francis on his journey.

Sounds Catholic and religious …it seems faith is the most important thing …sin (missing the mark) is not doing in faith but doing religiously. Jesus said do in memory of me …its not about making a religion out of His body and blood …the sacrifice of mass as catholics say. Christ followers were missing the mark the first 1000 years just as they were when Paul admonished them.

@@jasminestreet2418Jesus said about the consecrated host and wine that this IS my body and this IS my blood! He said in John 6 that if you don’t eat the flesh of the son of man and if you don’t drink the blood of the son of man, you will have no life in you! How much more literal can you get. When Jesus said to do this in memory of me, that’s Jewish language of sacrificial re-presentation - the Eucharist is the messianic fulfilment of the Passover which is a sacrifice!

Stay Catholic... Read the bible old and new testament. Read early fathers and eventually you will find the CATHOLIC APOSTALIC ORTHODOX CHURCH is the first church. I mean PROTESTANT didnt even exist till 500 years give or take. Check out STEVE RAY. JIMMY ATKINS.. MICHAEL LOFTON. ALL EX PROTESTANT.. 🙏🏼🕊️👌🏼🙌🏼 GOD BLESS YOU...

Praise God! 🙏

Cannot love your comment more! Welcome home! Every Catholic, even cradle Catholics like us, have beautifully varied journeys to loving, understanding (and thanking God for) the gift of our faith which I didn’t choose in infant baptism. Humbled that God chose us before we chose Him!

Thanks be to God that you are back home. I was away from the Church too at some point in my life but thankful that God is always ready to accept me in all my inequities

Dude how are you not an Orthodox Christian yet Francis? Beautiful video.

God says idolaters will be cast into the lake of fire. This is all demonic Catholicism. No one can be saved by a false Catholic Jesus, only the Jesus Christ of the Bible from cover to cover, with no additions or subtractions.

@Val Lee Well I guess God used the demonic Eucharistic to save my husband's life then, bcz this is exactly what happened. He lost his life & it was returned & he was completely healed after placing it in his mouth while dying... there was literally a 0% chance of this happening. This is why I became Catholic, thats where God led me. Do some research on all the Eucharistic miracles that have happened. I personally, even as a Catholic, do not worship the Eucharistic as God, so I don't involve myself with idolatry. Let God judge others, you don't need to be the one doing it. God bless you

@@ValLeeWeblog according to your tradition, the Bible has only 66 books. If you intend to follow your own advice, you’ve got some catching up to do.

​@@ValLeeWeblog love, love, love that you love the New Testament --written, compiled and canonized by the Catholic Church!❤

@@cherylwaclawczyk9098 It was written by those who exposed the Catholic Church, exposing Idolaters go to the lake of fire. Catholics and other false religions do not resemble true born-again Christians in any sense. True born-again Christians do not worship idols or Mary dollies or sing to her. Their pagan prayers are prayed to “Our Lady,” their false Mary. They believe her to be “The spouse of the Holy Spirit,” whereby, their false Jesus was created. Nor do true Christians adhere to other so-called saints, pray on beads, etc. They do not believe in Catholic mystics and praying to the bones of mystics. True Christian believers know Mary was kept a virgin up till the time of Christ's birth; then she, as a wife, had other children, sons and daughters with Joseph, and their sons' names are listed in the Bible. She too had to receive Christ as her Savior to be saved, not superior to any other sinner. However, Christians recognize she revealed exceptional faith and obedience before God. Her cousin, Elizabeth, also exhibited exceptional faith and godliness. Joseph did too, he being a just man and one who obeyed all God commanded of him in the protection of Jesus Christ, God the Son, as his adoptive son. The Bible declares idolaters (those who bow before idols, pray before them, touching beads, etc.) go to the lake of fire. Idolatry has no place in true Christianity. Revelation 21:8-“But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” God eventually will judge-“The LORD has issued a command concerning you: "Your name will no longer be perpetuated. I will cut off idol and image from the house of your gods. I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible." (Nahum 1: 14) Mary, the true Mary of the Bible was not a fertility goddess and called God her Savior. You have to be a sinner to need a Savior. Christ condemned Catholicism when people attempted to uplift Mary when He was on the earth. He would not allow it when people tried to bless her, he said, on the contrary, blessed are those who abide in Christ’s commandments. Luke 11:27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!” 28 But He said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." (Matthew chapter 12, verses 49 and 50) "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother." (Mark chapter 3, verses 33-35) Now Jesus' mother and brothers came to see him, but they were not able to get near him because of the crowd. Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you." He replied, "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's word and put it into practice." (Luke chapter 8, verses 19-21) True Christians believe in receiving Christ Jesus, the Christ of the Bible from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21, with no additions or subtractions, as their personal Savior. They do not believe in salvation by works. The Holy Spirit indwells true believers, equipping them to live godly in Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ died for every person so anyone can be saved from their sins who call upon Him. Christians are also to come and be separate from the unsaved and they are to have no fellowship with the children of satan. Catholics are the children of satan as those who worship idols, teach salvation by works and mock the Bible and its holy truths. Christians are not to fellowship with anyone who teaches false doctrines and this is viewed throughout the Bible, including 2 Peter, Galatians, Deuteronomy 13, etc. A friend of mine was once Catholic and in her church they had a yearly ritual where they had an idol of Jesus that they laid down and made every one would kiss this idols’ feet. She performed this also before becoming a born again Christian.

I whole heartedly agree with you. Too, too much in our congregational worship revolves around pastor so and so. Appreciate your reflection on this conversation.

@@robrobinson9281The only thing I’m questioning about the Eucharist “ushering in the presence of Christ” is that Christ already dwells in me, therefore his presence is constant. If you say the Eucharist ushers in his presence you’re essentially saying that his presence is absent apart from it. How does this make biblical sense? Doesn’t Christ dwell within us? Aren’t we continually in his presence? How can the body EVER be separated from the head??

Welcome home ☦️

the orthodox left the roman catholic church. come back home.

Exactly! Me, too. I go to both, but i keep my mouth shut at Mass about Protestant stuff, and when i go there, i keep quiet about Mass. It just divides people, and they cannot accept both sides. I do not receive communion in a Protestant church, nor will I. It just can't be both ways. On other issues I think both sides have strong and weak points.

Real Saints were murdered by Catholics for not believing in and submitting to the doctrine of Transubstantiation. This doctrine is wicked. Yeshua is clear in John 6 what He is talking about. So sick of these false teachers....including Chan.

@@JAGChristianos lol you’re a fool on history that’s a fact. There were no other Christians. Technically there were in the sense that there were Coptic Catholics and eastern Catholics, but there’s only one church. All of which believe in the real presence as Jesus commanded. When Jesus said this - to “gnaw on his flesh” only one disciple couldn’t accept it and that was Judas. Are you like Judas?

Some of the real saints were being fed to lions 1400 years before there were any Protestants@@JAGChristianos

Not even the Catholic Church believes that because they would say the eucharist is also present at the table of the orthodox christian

@@jonycruz2430 Indeed, the Catholic Church allows a catholic to take communion at an orthodox church, and allows an orthodox to take communion at an catholic church. From the orthodox perspective, though, it's different. The Orthodox don't say that Christ is present at the RC table, and forbid their members from taking communion in a catholic church, and catholics from taking communion with them.

@@jonycruz2430 Jony: The Catholic Church understand that the Eastern Orthodox Bishops and Priests have valid Apostolic succession and thus valid Holy Orders thus they have valid 7 sacraments. This also applies to the Oriental Orthodox. Protestants, from the Catholic perspective, do not have a valid Eucharist.

Right there "30 different tables" is the wrong view!! It's because what the catholic sect teaches. This is wrong and unbiblical. Tradition is not truth although not wrong in most places.

Thank you for witnessing to Christ and His Catholic Church. 👍✝️👏👏👏

Differentiation is easier than that. Much easier. RCC/EO - NOT Sola Scriptura. Reformed Protestant - Sola Scriptura.

@@KristiLEvans1 The New Testament was written and compiled by the Orthodox Church . Seems like a crazy statement until you start studying it. Look at the names of the letters that Paul wrote - where are those churches today ? So us Orthodox consider the Scripture to be part of our tradition .

@@KristiLEvans1 RCC informed Protestant, uninformed This is the problem with Bible alone, when you jettison the historical doctrine and develop your own based on your misinterpretation and misunderstanding of scripture, you are in error.

Yes! Dr. Hahn would be an amazing guest!

Or Brant Pitre. Trent Horn. Chris Stefanick. Curtis Martin. Jason Evert. Jeff Cavins. Jimmy Akins. Christopher Check. Matthew Kelly. Patrick Madrid.

You have a valid point, that much of the New Testament rests upon Old Testament typologies, and divorced from them meaning is lost, however, the Lord ushers in a new system, and declares that along with it we shall worship "in spirit and in truth," meaning, among many profound things, in a different way than the old "shadows."

Jesus said this is my blood and my body not this is a symbol

@@robertedwards909 The Lord said that while He was with them, so how was it not a symbol? If I showed someone a photo and said “this is me”, should people believe that photo is ontologically me or just that it represents me?

@@robertedwards909 Brother Robert, please forgive my intrusion: if it's not symbolic, then what was left of his body to be crucified? Or was his body effectively divided, divided and yet whole as the paradox would go. You have to remember this saying PRECEDES the death of the Passover lamb (Christ). It is therefore symbolic, though by no means entirely so by necessity. This is a challenge for theologians, no doubt about it.

Spirit and truth doesn’t mean a reinvention of practice though. Notice how the apostles continued in the temple and keeping the hours of prayer and worship? Worship is sobering God instructed Israel based on a heavenly picture.

The Sacrament of Eucharist is only valid through His one true church, the Catholic Church as well as Orthodox Church.

@@BruceWayne-rb1mbI take the Eucharist, breaking of the bread, Lord’s supper, etc every Sunday, and do not attend the Catholic church

@@conniedobbins5216 it's not the true Bread of Life. It must be consecrated by apostolic succession just as the Apostles taught. Lay people can't consecrate. This is blasphemy and a condemnation on one's soul at St. Paul taught

Hi Maria - lovely name! I'd invite you to really pray about your view of Holy Communion - if you truly believe in the True Presence of Jesus, nothing should be able to separate you from the Eucharist, or the Catholic Church. God Bless you! Sincerely, your sister in Christ

@@valerietucker7340 hi Valerie I can only describe my experience here in Scotland but I didn't hear the gospel that I was saved by grace through faith when I was 27 and I also since reading the bible no longer hold to praying to saints. I believe that savd Christians can take communion I don't need a priest. I'm sola scriptura now so I wouldn't go back to the RC church. I feel they have drifted from being Jesus centred. I hope this doesn't offend you but it's my walk and experience, much love x

Is the Holy mass not Jesus centered?

@@mariamcdaid2655 I’ll be praying that you come back to the One True Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith. That whatever is binding you from theses Truths- fear, anxiety, bitterness. pride, ? ? The Saints, are wiped away God bless you Your sister in Christ

@@sheilasmyth5874 what’s stopping me is the amount of heresies that have crept in. Praying to saints, purgatory, a lack of the preaching of grace saving us not works. Too important to me to overlook sorry. I don’t have to belong to a denomination, I’m born again. Are you?

Lord have mercy on me I felt they were empty rituals ...

@@deniselewis7663 don't worry. If you are sincere in your repentance, HE is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. He throws them in the sea of forgetfulness ❤️‍🩹

Yes, because Catholics have been the pillars of holiness thru the ages.

@@jerseyjim9092 could say the same for non- Catholics by that logic. People can and will fail regardless of whatever walk of life you’re on. It doesn’t change the truth. The truth of Jesus Christ and what he taught has stood over 2000 years and will continue to stand.

@Thomas B - faith “alone” is unscriptural. James 2:24 says “You see that a person is justified by works and NOT by faith alone. Every scripture verse about future judgement is based on works and not by faith alone. Pax Christi

Amen!!

Hi I don't understand because Jesus fulfilled everything on the Cross. We can rest what He has already done for us. Why would he need to do it over again on the Eucharist?

Bible says a woman is not to teach/hold authority over a man and do not pray to mary and ’saints,’ ie, idolatry.

Hanna I'm very happy for you, 🙏 the actual presence of God is in the eucharist. Those who don't have the most high adoration, confuse pray/ask & veneration to others living in heaven with Idolatry since pray and singing is all they do for God. May God bless you in all your endeavors 🙏

⁠@@jeffrey4505 hey Jeff, I I think there’s confusion in your lexicon between pray and worship. To pray is to ask. It is different than worship. Catholics worship the father, son, and Holy Spirit. But we ask the Saints who are the cloud of witnesses around us for their prayers and supplication to the Lord. Hebrews 12:1 Hope that helps. And in terms of some lady teaching kids Sunday school I didn’t see that anywhere in the Bible. Padre Pio Pray for us. Theotokos Pray for us!

You're confused. Please repent. I've posted plenty of rebuttals in the comments.

Well said David, even in the Liturgy, you here the Priest say celebrate the Sacred Mysteries. The Eucharist is indeed a Mystery.

Very well put :) and yes - part of communion is being of one mind and one teaching! We can’t have communion with people who do not believe what the Church Christ founded teaches! All that said I want to pray for Francis Chan, I know God is working in his heart and seeing his love for Jesus is so inspiring. Come home, my brother. We DO want you at the table!

The only thing is if BE took communion at an Eastern Orthodox Church it would still be valid. All EO want if for the Catholic Church to give up heresies they brought forth in 1,000 AD.

Because roman Catholics elevated tradition over scripture and added veneration of saints or the need of mediators other than christ

Catholics weren't the ppl who broke away.

@@fightsatan2408 please learn the term venerate. Catholics believe ppl are saved by God's grace. You're expressing a wrong taught belief.

Have you gave it a thought that there wasnt a reformation needed to begin with, do you realize what we that caused?? So many divisions and every division is loosing more and more truth. God doesnt want division, jesus did not lie to us when he said he founded his church and said that he gates of hell will not prevail and he would be with us until the end of times, he left teachings to the apostles not a bible, bible came later to help, but this teachings is what we catholics call apostolic tradition, not man made traditions. We have to also understand that there have been heretics throughout history that went against these apostolic tradition doctrines which in reality went against Gods will have broke away and made their own interpretation of the bible to fit their needs and wants, thats not what God wanted. This is the very reason we now have to thousand of protestant denominations that all claim to be christians and all are guided by the holy spirit have the truth, but truth is they all interpret the bible differently and have different teachings, so under what authority do we know who has the truth???

Francis went apostate and catholicism is paganism. But it just like the Bible says...... false doctrine abounds.

@@Jacob-uy8kg 1 john 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. This verse applies to protestantism, they came from the catholic church, but were really not catholic because if they would of been they never would of left, i hear it all the time from protestants “ when i was a catholic we used to do this and that” FALSE ! They never were catholics because they never really knew catholic doctrines, they believed what they were told, that catholicism is pagan. If the catholic church was pagan why would it be pro-life ??? While many other supposively christian denominations are pro-abortion???

@@Jacob-uy8kg Christmas and Easter are Catholic Holy Days, the birth of Christ and His resurrection.

@@joekey8464 paganism mixed with Christianity. Please do your due diligence.

My family and I go to a Nondenominational Church. We just started January 2023, and we take part of communion once a month and it was something that wasn’t done at the previous Churches I went to as a kid. Or at least some did it once a year in some kind of way. So it was new to me and it felt too Catholic, but now I understand of the importance of this sacrament. And how real presence can be biblically and historically proved. And actually, even though I still disagree with some views of the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox that some of our brothers and sisters in Christ believe, I have a lot of respect and love for them. There are more things we can actually agree and learn from one another. I thank God for letting me find a Church where I can feel his presence and do amazing works through the local church. God bless you.

@@jonathanhernandez7957 Browse Protestant Dr. Scott Hahn on the Eucharist.

How are you not Catholic yet man?!!?! 😊 but yet a gentle way of re-introducing the importance and meaning of the Eucharist to the evangelical church.

@@tomloewen3572 I was and I left. I was actually a seminarian and learned theologian. I joined the true Catholic church of Lord. ☦️ you do you man. Pursue what you believe with fervor and as always, we pray for mercy.