I don’t get some Christian bloggers who make it their mission to just blog on how much they disagree with Catholic theology. I guess I can understand blogging in defense of your own faith, but I don’t get constantly assaulting someone else’s, particularly when it is another branch of Christianity.

Recently the Eucharist has been a favorite subject for attack. It reminded me of so many of the things that blew me away when I was coming back into the church – all of the really eye opening things I relearned about my Catholic faith as I returned to it.

And one of the biggies was the Eucharist. Because of that, I can never ever see myself as being anything but a Catholic Christian. Here are the top five things that convinced me.

1. God went to so much time and trouble to set it up! Starting with Malchezidek, through the manna in the desert, Passover and the food for the prophet in the desert, the Eucharist is prefigured so strongly throughout the Old Testament.

2. When I found out that the actual Greek word in John 6 used for eating actually meant literal chewing, and that that word is never used just symbolically, I was very impressed.

3. In John 66:6 when the disciples leave Jesus because they think His teaching on the Eucharist is too difficult He doesn’t call them back or try to say He was only speaking figuratively or symbolically. He lets them leave knowing that they think He means literally- because He does!

4. In 1 Corinthians it says that if we receive the Eucharist unworthily there are consequences. Why should that be so unless the Eucharist is the real deal?

5. The writings of one of my favorite apologists, Justin Martyr, talks about the importance of the Eucharist in the worship of the early church.

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