Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
That is Calvinist propaganda.

As a devout Catholic myself, allow me to rectify: the eucharist is celebrated not annually, but every mass. The process is called transsubstantiation. And yes, the bread and wine really do become the body and blood of Christ. Not, however, in the body of one consuming them, during digestion. That sounds like a lame solution by yet another pseudo-Christian cult of you protestants, lacking the intellectual finesse to understanmd how bread can have changed when by all physical appereance it hasn't. We Catholics have a more subtle understanding of the transubstantiation. Once consecrated, the host and wine have become the body of Christ. Such is the mystery of the Lord.
What understanding of fine distinctions you may have you don't appear to have put it to good use: by the time (i.e. before). So you do, according to the Catholic doctrine at least, actually eat his flesh and drink his blood. By the by, there is only one single mass a Catholic must attend which is Easter. All others are optional. (Unless one is of course a monk or otherwise closeted away from the Real World and devotes his life to a metaphysical being with bad manners and short temper and a lackluster work ethic.)