Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I want to wish you a happy Holy Thursday

as we commemorate the Last Supper of Jesus Christ and which he institutes the Eucharist and the

priesthood. And I know many of you hearing that are already saying, ah, it's not really what we believe

in my tradition as an evangelical Protestant or whatever you may be. Because unfortunately,

while the Lord's Supper should be a place of Christian unity, this is where we become one in Christ. It's become between Catholics and

Protestants a place of real division. And not only between Catholics and Protestants, but between

Protestants and Protestants, that the understandings of the Eucharist or the Lord's

Supper you might find in an Anglican or a Lutheran service are going to be radically different

from what you might find in a Baptist or non-denominational one.

And in particular, there's a lot of controversy over a claim that we as Catholics make, not only that Christ is

present in the Eucharist, not only that the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ,

but that in a strange way we are actually participating in the one sacrifice of Christ.

Many Protestants who are fine saying Christ is somehow present in with and under the bread

and wine or in some other way in the Eucharist are not okay with the idea that this is the one

propitatory sacrifice of Christ. So I'm going to give you a very short presentation of the

Catholic position and then three common objections that I hear

to the Catholic claim, and then show you why these objections don't actually understand the

biblical meaning of sacrifice. They don't understand either what Catholics are saying, or more

importantly in some ways, what the Bible is saying about sacrifice.

So without any further ado, the catechism in paragraph 1367 says that the sacrifice of Christ

and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice.

Now, how can that be?

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