#12421 Do Specifics About the Eucharist Really Matter? AMA @shamelesspopery - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
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Summary
“Do specifics about the Eucharist really matter?” This episode dives into the significance of the Eucharist, exploring questions like why eucharistic miracles occur and the importance of distinguishing between consubstantiation and transubstantiation. Join us as we also discuss the implications of consuming blessed bread from an orthodox church and the historical tradition of the Eucharist in tabernacles.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:00 – Why do eucharistic miracles happen?
- 09:05 – Why does it matter to distinguish between consubstantiation and transubstantiation?
- 20:25 – Can my kids consume the blessed bread that’s not consecrated at an orthodox church?
- 29:20 – How do you defend eucharistic miracles?
- 34:16 – Do we have any writings of when the tradition of holding the eucharist in a tabernacle started?
- 37:55 – Was Martin Luther’s intent for people to give up the importance of the eucharist? If not, why did they move away from it?
- 46:00 – What do you recommend I do to prepare to be an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion?
- 51:32 – Who do many evangelicals deny eucharistic miracles?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, your mic's... |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to Kathy Gansanses Live. |
| 0:17.0 | I am Syke Hillett, your host. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome back. Welcome back from the weekend, the Dredger's boring weekend where we get to come back and have fun and do fun stuff here. I love it when the work week starts here, especially when Joe Heschmeier starts us off. Joe Heschmeier's apologist here at Catholic Gantz was in the author of a whole bunch of books. You know them. I like, I don't, I'm not going |
| 0:38.7 | to go through a whole list, but you know the big names that we talk about, Pope Peter, the early church was the Catholic Church, and then he wrote one on the Eucharist. So we decided, let's do, ask me anything about the Eucharist, and that's what we're doing today. If you have a question about the Eucharist 8883187-884, if the question is, is the Eucharist |
| 0:58.1 | really Jesus? You probably get a free book because that's the Eucharist book. The Eucharist is |
| 1:03.2 | really Jesus. Joe Heschmire, welcome. Thanks. Good to be here. It's good to have you. You did a really |
| 1:09.6 | fine job on the convocation this morning. |
| 1:12.5 | On Monday mornings, we get a convocation from somebody in the building or out of the building, somebody that works here. |
| 1:19.4 | And Joe did our convocation this morning. And we were trying to decide, do we remember, have you ever done a convocation? |
| 1:26.6 | It was a beautiful spiritual topic on prayer today. But have you ever done a convocation where you did not at some point mention the Kansas City Chiefs? I mean, the thing is, the convocations are on Mondays, and off on Monday mornings. Oh, that's why. Oh, yeah. One of the things that I've got in mind. Yeah. You talked about persistence and prayer this morning. |
| 1:46.4 | It was really good. |
| 1:47.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.3 | For people listening, there are times where you pray and pray and pray and pray and it feels like nothing's happening. |
| 1:52.4 | And I gave the example of two teams, the Raiders and the Broncos, and both teams were completely trounced by their opponents for the first three quarters of a game. The Raiders gave up and the Broncos mounted an amazing comeback. So amazingly, like the hero of the story wasn't even the Kansas City Chiefs. It was division rivals, Denver Broncos. Which I know Shane in office, he's a big Broncos fan. I think we have a couple of quieter Broncos fans as well. |
| 2:18.6 | He couldn't sit in his seat during your present. He was so excited. But the whole thing had to do with |
| 2:21.7 | persevere and prayer. And it was quite beautiful. You didn't mention, of course, there's another |
| 2:26.1 | team in the AFC West, the Chargers, who were both trounced and didn't give up. |
| 2:30.9 | Yeah, that's true. Sometimes you try really hard and your best is not good enough. But that's not as inspiring of a message. Yeah, that was less inspiring, so you didn't go with that one. 8883187-884. Ask Joe anything about the Eucharist this hour. He is the author of the book. The Eucharist is really Jesus. He's the podcaster behind shameless popery. He himself is a shameless |
| 2:52.5 | papist. So your calls are welcome. 8883187-884. You know, we had a big presentation here in this |
| 3:01.8 | dynasties of a thing that Saint, I almost said blessed, but St. Carlo Acutis, he put together a presentation |
| 3:10.9 | on Eucharistic miracles. And I walked through the whole thing. I didn't even know that he had done |
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