No more doth it hurt to say that the body and blood are not in the sacrament.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
Christ made the bread the sacrament of his body only: wherefore as the bread is no similitude of his blood, so am I not bound or ought to affirm, that his blood is there present.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
A sacrament is a visible sign of an invisible reality.
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
Every sacrament meeting ought to be a spiritual feast.
Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.