Talk to a hundred Catholics and I doubt youll find many who believe its nothing more than symbolic. You seem to be speaking for Catholics as to what they believe.
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Originally Posted by MarchHare
As a kid attending mass every Sunday, I also thought it was merely symbolic. I only learned as an adult, many years after I lost the faith and left the Church, that Catholics genuinely do believe that the bread and wine is literally transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation |