Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and

defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kelle at your host. And among the things defending your

and among the things that Catholics have to defend

because it is the most precious thing in this world to us

is the eucharist and our understanding of the eucharist differs from some other people's

understanding of the eucharist. So today we talk about defending what Christ what he was doing when he said the words, this is my body

and this is my blood. To help us do that, Carlo Broussard, apologist extraordinaire,

almost a doctor of Philosophy, and author of many books including the two books

meeting the Protestant challenge and meeting the Protestant response, which discuss lots of issues like this

Carla welcome.

Hey Sai, thanks for having me my friend. It does seem to me like we have to defend

the Eucharist in different ways to different groups and we really like to our

Orthodox brothers and sisters we don't have to defend the Eucharist at all they have

essentially the same understanding that we have yes although different words

and that kind of thing, different language, but essentially the

same understanding about what is happening there.

To the person who's a non-believer, it just probably looks like, and we'll talk about this in a future conversation

another one of those absurd things that religious people believe in yeah

but to Protestants we have to defend our view of what Christ is doing.

That's essentially what the conversation is,

that there's the Catholic view shared by the Orthodox

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