For Roman Catholics: in the Eucharist in mass does the host (wafer) and wine taste like raw flesh and blood?

It tastes like wine= it is wine.

It tastes like wafer= it is waver

Now you have your answer are you happy my faith is shaken

Absolutely not.

God is the master of all creation, and all creation was made through Christ. (See the Book of John -- first few verses). All matter is good because, as it says in Genesis, God "called it good".........and God uses matter to work His purposes (i.e., Jesus using spittle to cure a blind man when we know that was not necessary for Him).

Everything remains the same except the substance. The parts that we can sense remain the same. Jesus' spittle became something through which He healed the blind man and in a similar manner He heals us through the bread and wine. It really is His Body and Blood and the way that we know is because He said so. We just take His word for it........and the Church has always believed it. Paul speaks of it.

People in the early Church were sometimes executed in the Circus Maximus as cannibals because of this teaching which they would not deny. Even today, Catholics are accused of cannibalism because of our belief in transubstantiation.

In the early Church, it became necessary for catechumens (new converts) to leave mass before the consecration of the bread and wine. They were not even told of the teaching until they were fully prepared for it.........so many would turn away and reveal it to others and people would be killed for cannibalism.

I'm not sure when Christians first broke away from the Church by denying the Eucharist is really the Flesh and Blood of Christ. I'm sure one can find that answer somewhere in the Catholic Encyclopedia, but I"m not positive.

I have never had the wine, but the bread host just tastes like a regular wafer without the cream stuff in the middle.. and I'm guessing the wine tastes like regular wine.. though I've heard that they use grapejuice?? I don't know if the grapejuice part is true..

It's supposed to be symbolic, I don't think they would make you eat something that really tasted like flesh and blood.

Not usually. Mostly it just tastes like cardboard and wine. But every now and then I and some other Catholics experience very different flavors. Whether this is a psychological effect on the mind, or a full blown miracle, I don't know.

The host and wine are very yummy but do not taste like flesh and blood.

I was a Catholic for many years, which is how I know what they taste like...but don't ask how I know about flesh and blood.

;)

j-r

The doctrine of the Real Presence asserts that in the Holy Eucharist, Jesus is literally and wholly present—body and blood, soul and divinity—under the appearances of bread and wine, however this incredible miracle of Christs love and presence does not affect the outward appearance of the bread or wine so that they retain their taste and form.

God bless.

No it doesn't taste like literal blood and flesh! it's blessed by the priest during the mass and it tastes like wine and wafer bread!

Of course the bread and wine taste, smell, and look the same as before consecration.

Transsubstantiation refers to the change in the substance of something. What you are thinking of is transformation, which is the change in the form of something.

The substance of the bread and wine is changed, not the form.

No, It still Taste Like bread and Wine, its the Belief that you are becoming one With God

It tastes like wine....and a bland wafer.