#12624 Who Received the First Eucharist? Real Presence and Prayer - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Who received the first Eucharist?” This question opens a discussion on the significance of the Eucharist and the scriptural evidence for the real presence of Christ. Other topics include how to address Catholics who feel more fulfilled in Protestant services, the morality of the death penalty, and the rationale behind the Hail Mary prayer in the rosary.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:34 – Who received the first eucharist? Which scripture is the best to show as evidence for the real presence?
- 12:23 – How do we respond when a Catholic says they are getting more out of going to a Protestant church? How do we bring them back?
- 22:49 – How is the death penalty an immoral thing, and why is it changed for the first time in history?
- 37:30 – What is the response to the justification that the reformation is valid because the reformers followed the example of the apostles being kicked out of the temple?
- 42:05 – I see a lot of inconsistencies in the Catholic Church. I have an issue because if Doctrine can change how can I agree with what will change in the future?
- 51:24 – Why do Catholics pray the hail mary so much during the rosary? Isn’t it against scripture?
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| 0:40.2 | And we've got Protestant challenges to the Catholic faith. |
| 0:43.9 | If you're Protestant and you want to give us your challenge, you're very welcome here. |
| 0:47.3 | If you're Catholic or Orthodox or other and you want to see how does the Catholic respond to this particular Protestant challenge? You're also |
| 0:56.1 | welcome 8883187-884, AAA3184, Carlo, you're going to make it to another hour? |
| 1:05.9 | You're going to make it? Yeah, man, I'm hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. |
| 1:09.6 | I know we've got Carlo traveling all over the, from Hill and Dale. He's traveling in recent weeks. So you can do it. You can get through another hour. You can make it. I can do it, man. I can make it. I'll tell you what. You travel all around doing your work. And then you get on here with us and people from Oklahoma call where you |
| 1:28.3 | already live. Bill from Oklahoma up next. Welcome back, Bill. How are you doing, Cy? Very well. I'm |
| 1:36.0 | glad you're here. Me too. Thank you so much for taking the call. In my personal evangelization efforts with either fallen away Catholics or those who |
| 1:49.5 | are not Catholic, the question has come up. I have a question and then a brief comment about the |
| 1:58.8 | Eucharist, about it truly being the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus. |
| 2:04.1 | And I bring them to several scriptures that support that. |
| 2:09.5 | But my question is, in your opinion, Carlos, what would be probably the number one or number two scripture that you would lead off with in support of that? |
| 2:24.5 | Yeah, so I think it would be two passages combined. |
| 2:29.1 | So normally, Bill, Catholics will turn to the Last Supper, where Jesus takes bread and wine and says, this is my body, |
| 2:35.6 | this is my blood, and think that Jesus could not have been any clearer, right? |
| 2:41.3 | However, taken by itself, I'm sympathetic to our Protestant friends who would say, hey, Jesus is just saying the bread. |
| 2:50.4 | Jesus implies what the use of the |
| 2:52.3 | verb to be is that it simply represents Jesus' body and blood. If we take those words by themselves, |
| 3:00.1 | I don't think it has persuasive force for the Protestant or any Christian to conclude that |
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