716 results for 'the eucharist is really jesus'

Why Do We Have Sacraments?(Post)

CHALLENGE: If what is ultimately important is our faith in God, there is no reason for the Church to have sacraments.DEFENSE: Interior dispositions like faith are not the only thing that is important ...

Mysteries Revealed: Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery(Post)

The conversations of Jesus are different from his parables. The parables tend to be more generic, more applicable to different persons and circumstances. They also are presented in figurative languag ...

The First Stigmata: An Examination of Jesus’ Wounds(Post)

On Ash Wednesday 2004, the eagerly-awaited movie The Passion of the Christ hit movie screens—but hit its viewers much harder. With ashen foreheads, Catholics across America cringed i ...

Does Jesus Promise Us Health And Wealth?(Post)

I was sitting on the couch with my arms crossed while the credits rolled, when one of my friends asked me, “What did you think of the movie?” “Aside from the subpar acting?” I replied. “I think ...

Getting Personal When Talking About Jesus(Post)

Stop waiting for the perfect moment. Souls are perishing now, so now is the moment.​​​​​ In sharing Jesus with others, we are far more likely to succeed if we first take the time to craft our own me ...

Baptism Now Saves You: Because Jesus Says So(Post)

When it comes to biblical support for the belief in baptismal regeneration, there’s no better place to start than with Jesus himself. John 3:3-5, commonly known as the “Born Again” ...

Advent Apologetics: How is it Possible for God to Become a Man? (Post)

The mystery of the Incarnation, or the mystery of God’s becoming man, is not something that can easily be understood by finite human minds. However, just as we can’t fully comprehend God himself b ...

Why Do Disputes with the Pharisees Take Up So Much Space in the Gospels?(Post)

Large portions of those sacred books can, at times, seem like little more than a series of unpleasant encounters with the existing religious authorities—not most people’s idea of inspirational readin ...

Advent Apologetics: Did the First Christians Expect Jesus to Return in Their Lifetimes? (Post)

God did not reveal his plan of the ages all at once. As the centuries rolled on, he sent prophets to his people Israel, and they learned more about the shape of his plan. This is a concept that schol ...

Advent Apologetics: Do the Infancy Narratives Conflict or Contain Historical Errors? (Post)

Sometimes skeptics have claimed that the infancy narratives found in Matthew 1-2 and Luke 1-2 contradict each other. For example, it is pointed out that Luke has Mary living in Nazareth before going ...

An Intimate Friendship with God(Post)

After he was raised from the dead, Jesus made time for a heart-to-heart talk with Peter, who had denied Jesus three times on the night Jesus was arrested. Some of the disciples were out fishing on t ...

Debunking Arguments Against the Resurrection: The Swoon Hypothesis(Post)

One of the more common arguments to the Resurrection is that Jesus passed out or “swooned” on the cross. Unless you broke the legs of the victims, it could take days for a person to die, ...