#12148 What Happens If the Words of Consecration Are Incorrect? - Tim Staples

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Does changing the words during the consecration make the Eucharist invalid? We dive into what the Church teaches about the essential form of the sacrament and also address confession practices, Orthodox weddings in Catholic churches, and bridging the gap with Protestants on faith and works.

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Questions Covered:

08:00 – Adams providential testimony.
28:47 – I go to confession every month and I was told that I shouldn’t give a number of times I commit a sin. Is this ok to omit?
32:48 – Can an Orthodox wedding ceremony happen inside of a Catholic Church? Can My husband attend the wedding?
35:32 – If using the wrong words during baptism, it makes it invalid. Would the same logic apply to the Eucharist and the words of consecration?
40:18 – How do I bridge the gap with my Protestant friends? Why are Protestants so hung up on salvation by faith alone? What is the downside of works?

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0:31.6	I am Cy Killett. Your host, Tim Staples is here with a senior apologist here at Catholic
0:37.1	Ganswers, the author of Behold Your Mother, a biblical and historical defense of the Marian
0:42.0	doctrines, and the cause of a lot of people saying, oh, I'm Catholic now. Hi, Tim Staples. Thanks for
0:49.8	being here. Hi, Sy, it is absolutely wonderful to be here. Well, it's going to get more wonderful,
0:56.0	because I've got a great story for you. And this is a story I've just been told I haven't heard.
0:59.0	You have not heard this story, but we got an email from a gentleman named Adam, and
1:06.0	Adam is here to tell us the story that he told us in the email.
1:10.0	Adam in Indiana, thank you very much for being here with us.
1:13.1	And you are from Indianapolis, is that correct?
1:16.2	Just outside of Indianapolis, small town McCordesville.
1:19.0	Now, isn't that where, do they still have the men's conference there?
1:23.2	Isn't that where it is?
1:24.5	There's a massive men's conference there.
1:26.2	I think it's Lions Breathing Fire. Isn't that Indianapolis is? There's a massive men's conference. I think it's lions breathing fire.
1:28.8	Isn't that Indianapolis?
1:30.4	I don't know.
1:31.2	Des Moines, Iowa.
1:32.6	No, that's a family conference in Des Moines.
1:34.5	I don't know.
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