Welcome back to James Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire. And while Catholics and Orthodox believe that the

bread and wine in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, many Protestants argue

that the Lord's Supper is symbolic and the bread and wine remain bread and wine. And for many

Protestants in this second camp, they're going to point to the words of St. Paul and First

Corinthians and ask, look, if the Eucharist is supposed to become Jesus, why does Paul keep calling it bread?

And that's a great question. And it actually turns out that a better translation

and a better understanding of these passages are not only going to support the Catholic position,

they're also going to reveal a spiritual dimension of the Eucharist

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Okay. So there are a couple of passages in question that often come up here. In 1 Corinthians chapter 10,

St. Paul says something like, the bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. And then in the next chapter, he says, as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. Now, understandably, many Protestants are going to look at passages like that and say, look, obviously, the Eucharist is still bread.

Otherwise, why does he keep calling it bread?

You can see similar language in 1 Corinthians 10, 16 through 17.

The bread that we break is it not participation in the body of price?

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body,

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