The Truth About the Eucharist | Dr. Peter Kreeft - Atlanta Eucharistic Congress 2018

Dr. Peter Kreeft answers the "who, what, where, when, and why?" about the Eucharist at the 2018 Atlanta Eucharistic Congress.
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[@TolkienStudy]

Love Peter Kreeft. He is the reason (one of the big ones) for my conversion. God bless you.

[@samtaylor5469]

Brandon Young Same! His philosophical approach to the Catholic fairy is so profound. The way he sees the faith and articulates it is so unique and compelling.

[@dannyvalastro2974]

He is a lying idiot

[@miguelconfesor4701]

@@dannyvalastro2974 look who's talking. A dumb ass like you criticizing a great intellect.

[@dannyvalastro2974]

@@miguelconfesor4701 your nuts

[@neldabulawit8791]

God be praised for a reasonable explanation of the Eucharist. Thank you Lord for opening our faith, eyes n heart to the body and blood of the Lord. Alleluia.

[@tinaludlow9767]

This is one of the best literacy of the Eucharist. Thank you Dr. Peter Kneeft! May the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ help you to grow in holiness. 🙏🙏🙏

[@tinaduffy9542]

Brilliant speech by a very very holy enlightened articulate man who focuses our attention on the source and summit of Christain life -Christ present in the eucharist.May God continue to bless and inspire Peter Kreeft to convert others to the wealth of Catholic life.

[@MystoRobot]

*May all of you take the Eucharist on the TONGUE,* as to not let a single particle of his body fall on the ground or be defiled. *May all of you take the Eucharist KNEELING,* to show the reverence due to our Lord who is so often ignored by the world. An increase in personal piety *will* help the Church, more than we can imagine. God bless Kreeft, and all of you brothers and sisters.

[@melroycorrea7720]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@NequeNon]

What a great communicator and philosopher. Praise God!

[@lopez.stephanie1991]

I just discovered Kreeft through Bishop Barron and I am so glad I did.

[@dannyallen2894]

I just discovered him through Matt Fradd, and I am also glad! He is excellent

[@LauraBrown-me9qc]

Be wary of Bishop Barron. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[@rogermurphy4010]

O Risen Lord who veils himself in Bread and Wine, Take my heart and make it Thine. This is a prayer said by a Eucharistic Minister who brought Communion to the sick in hospitals and nursing homes.

[@molliesoto8405]

Peter Kreeft in all his humility won't accept that this is the most extraordinary explanation of our Lord in the Eucharist ever spoken....but....for me...it is.

[@lourdesdelapena1852]

Jesus mercy ,Mary help ! 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@praveenliverpool]

Lord Jesus, present in the most holy Eucharist, have mercy on us sinners 🙏

[@tinaduffy6801]

Thank you Peter Kreeft for a fantastic enlightening lecture which can truly transform us and bring us into communion with Christ who is the source and summit of all Christian life. God bless you and your work of bringing people tp experience the love of God in the Body of Christ.

[@martinlee465]

" As worthy as a grain of sand, Yet held precious in Your hand. You raised me up above the clabber, Off all creation, I call you Father." Thank you my Lord and my God.

[@iankennedy9050]

The yellow oval-shape behind this man makes him look like an angel's wings. It looks like an angel preaching to us!

[@jeffscully1347]

That was my first thought!

[@stephenfrancis609]

I really appreciate for this. Everyday I'm learning more about the Holy Eucharist. Remain Blessed. Deo Gratias.

[@auspiciomiranda-rodrigues9336]

Indeed! Peter Kreeft, you make me convinced that wisdom is being in and following the unchangeable teaching of the Catholic Faith as thought by Jesus Christ, when he lived among us. Christ is the Same, Yesterday, Today and Forever!

[@tinaduffy9542]

Fantastic!What a holy inspiring man.May God continue to bless Peter Kreeft to bring us into deeper communion with the communion of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit...

[@geraldhilario4572]

Dr Kreeft’s wisdom shines through in the convictions his voice utter so eloquently yet so humbly.

[@raineandthomasadventure1689]

Thank you Peter for sharing your insights about Blessed Eucharist. Your exposition is both simple and complex but thanks GOD for giving us intellect and will to understand the complex part. May you have more time in this dying world to teach us clearly. God blessed you and your work!!!

[@ghrohrs2020]

It's Dr. Kreeft to you. Respect his accomplishment and faith by being respectful.

[@MichElle-sd6gj]

Received regularly, not just Sunday, in a state of grace Eucharist means (my personal definition) “you are in Christ”🙏🏼

[@Eserr7856]

It is a great gift from God to remain in a state of grace and even more to receive the Eucharist frequently. Thank God every day for his gift. Through my own weakness I struggle with serious sin almost daily so I no longer receive the Eucharist weekly. Pray for me that I may return to God and rely completely on his mercy and grace. God bless!

[@josephfranciswilliams7033]

One of my favourite speech ❤️ really appreciate Dr. Peter Creeft for this wonderful speech.❤️

[@leonardoespiritu1866]

Praise GOD. Thank you, Dr. Kreeft🙏

[@19624291a]

MAY GOD GRANT YOU THE LIGHT YOU ARE SPEAKING TRUTH GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU FOR TOUCHING MY HEART IN THIS BEUTIFUL TRUTH WHO IS EVERLASTING LIFE JESUS CHRIST OUR BLESSED MOTHER MARY PRAY FOR US ESPEACIALY FOR THOSE WHO REFUSE TO HEAR AMEN

[@TheRedPheniox]

Love Peter Kreeft's insight. Very blessed to listen to him.

[@rhondarockhound622]

Speaks truth to my soul. I was baptized Catholic , but go to the Lutheran Church now for 40 years. I so wish we could take communion together! Someday soon?

[@pak4303]

Jesus bless Dr Kreeft to continue your teachings

[@TheKevinmalta]

Amazing.

[@gatogati2281]

My guru my professor. Thank you Sir.

[@annettefowler4704]

Thank you.

[@Celena2224]

Love how this man shares the beauty of our faith ❤❤❤

[@glorialabella6361]

This is a very informative video on the most Holy Eucharist. ✝️✝️✝️

[@pinamawya1967]

I am from Kenya, which happens to be in Africa. We do exist

[@guilhermefonseca3548]

Amazing! Truth!

[@DanielWSonntag]

Love it!!

[@tartuttest]

Poetry of Meaning. I would love to hear PK and J(Peterson) discuss the mysteries of faith. Humility is it, but I confess I tagged this presentation as "Modern Church Fathers".

[@kfernandes268]

Superb..thank you. 🙏🏼

[@Miriana727]

Thank you!

[@leonardoespiritu1866]

EXCELLENT TALK AS ALWAYS👍☝️🙏

[@clareosullivan2698]

Thankyou very much

[@williambuysse5459]

Our very own C.S.Lewis but still a unique image Of God. Thank you Dr. Kreeft!!!

[@PInk77W1]

“Jesus held his body in his hands at the last supper” St Augustine

[@dawithileyesus448]

AMEN

[@787maggie]

Didn't Einstein say near his death that he had spent all his life trying to catch the Gardener at his work but he came to the conclusion that he didn't want to be observed

[@kdmdlo]

Dr. Kreeft is absolutely brilliant. If you aren't convinced by him, you simply were not listening.

[@scottforesman7968]

is there a book that would contain the essential points of this talk?

[@JosephRyanHinshaw]

Holy Ghost!

[@mckane214]

6:15

[@iedvesmaindonesia6768]

Eucharist is better than give thanks

[@alexhegerfeld8599]

I’ve struggled substantially with discerning whether the Eucharist is symbolic or the transfigured body and blood of Christ. My struggle has not been in whether or not it’s possible- it’s certainly very possible- but in what was Jesus’s intent. He spoke symbolically all the time, and when reading the Bible verses IN CONTEXT it can be justified both ways. Explanations I’ve heard thus far defending the Catholic view are for the most part very shallow and weak. Quoting a single Bible verse with “there you have it” isn’t good enough. This is the first time I’ve watched this gentleman speak, and one of the very few times (if not the only time) I’ve an explanation with some depth to it. I will probably read one of his books.

[@frajoelyouvid]

Apparently you have not read enough explanations or have not read the good ones. We have hundreds of years of writings by mystics, saints, theologians, fathers of the Church, some even disciples of the disciples themselves writing on the conviction of Christ's real presence in the Eucharist. I'm glad you stumbled into philosopher Peter Kreeft. One of the modern day's Thomas Aquinas.

[@tonywallens217]

Glad to see your discerning. You might wanna read some Scott Hahn or listen to his conversion due to the Eucharist and especially his three part series in it

[@harvey364]

Yes indeed -- read any of Dr. Kreeft's books. But you do bring up a good point, and a point which illustrates why the "Bible alone" approach doesn't make sense. We need to realize that when there are parts of Scripture that can be interpreted different ways, then we need to seek out the authority who gave us the Scriptures: not God directly, but the Church founded by Christ. The visible Church has taught from the very beginning that Jesus intended to give us his Body and Blood (John 6). While many people considering the Catholic Church will claim that Mary is their big stumbling block, I've actually found that there are really only two root causes or blockages: the Eucharist and the issue of authority. Hopefully this video helps you on the first point, and I strongly encourage you to think more about the second point (Steve Ray's materials might be good for that one).

[@bassman_0074]

Alex Hegerfeld the church fathers speak of it both ways but never contradict one another on this point. The Eucharist is literally the body and blood and a symbol of his promise to always be with us.

[@bassman_0074]

Alex Hegerfeld I believe the term is technical term is “efficacious symbol”

[@chicagoman393]

The the Father and the Son are the Parents of the Holy Spirit, if many churches are correct. The Trinity is a Family-- two Parents and an Offspring, if many churches are correct.The word Father is a metaphor. In the book of Job which is part of the Bible, the Lord is compared to a father and also a mother with a womb "From whose womb comes the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?"-Job 38:29 Note: Nothing i wrote above contradicts Catholic Church dogma. Saying the Father and the Son are Parents of the Holy Spirit is simply another way of saying "the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son" which has been official Catholic dogma for centuries

[@dannyvalastro2974]

I would not risk my life on faith

[@xaviertc8358]

Risk your life in materialism

[@charlenetuttle6668]

The risk is not risking your life on faith. Just remember, if you don’t trust in Jesus and faith, you better be right. Eternity is a long time.

[@PInk77W1]

“If the Eucharist is true, I need to be Catholic, I don’t care about all the pope and Mary stuff.” Dr John Bergsma

[@garrettodonnell4177]

30:54 - like if you said "Cow."

[@dannyvalastro2974]

Faith is not evidence you cant lnow anything is true through faith if you went out on the ice in winter you cant have faith it's safe you must have evidence it is safe or you will drown

[@ivoryn]

"Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Confucius and Lao Tzu all gave us their mind, Christ gave us His Body. They all tried to save the world from ignorance by their philosophies, Christ did save the world from sin, death and hell by His body and His blood, both on the Cross and in the Eucharist. Buddha said, "Look not to me; look onto my teaching." Christ said, "Come unto me." Philosophers all say, "I teach the truth." Christ said, "I am the Truth." When we receive the Eucharist, we eat The Truth." "How far did He bring himself? As we were brought from the nothingness of non-existence, He came from the timeless fullness of existence down into time, matter and history, and our fallen race, and into the worst torture the world ever invented, crucifixion, and the worst sin the world ever committed, deicide, the murder of god, and then down into death, and the grave and the underworld, and then back up through the resurrection and the ascension, and then in His Spirit, down again in the Pentecost, and again in every Eucharistic consecration, and then down into our mouth, our tongue, our esophagus, our stomach, the very cells of our body, we enter into the heights of His Divine Life, by His entering into the depths of our human life." "We know this world and the next by faith" "Why is Christ hiding in the Eucharist? To make room for faith. But why demand faith? Because he wants our love, and faith is a necessary property of love, faith means trust, first of all, and we do not trust those we do not love, if we do not love or trust, then we need sensory appearances and rational proofs, that is called science, science is noble and honorable, but science is not love, and love has no place in science, nor does trust. To make science we begin by distrusting" "We treat people as innocent till proven guilty, but we treat scientific ideas as guilty until proven innocent; we can't get to heaven by science, we can't even get to earthly happiness by science, we can only get to happiness by love, both on earth as in Heaven"

[@jamessheffield4173]

Transubstantiation is like Docetism: God the Son appeared as a human, but wasn’t really, meaning the bread and wine are done away with and what we taste and swallow is a lie. Consubstantiation takes the words of Paul to mean what they say: that the bread is bread, not just an appearance of bread, and so the wine is still wine, not just an appearance of wine.

[@jetc4332]

We don't say the appearance of bread and wine is illusory, what we say is that through transubstantiation the appearances of bread and wine become accidents to a new essence that we believe is the true body and blood, soul and divinity of Christ.

[@jamessheffield4173]

I prefer Chalcedon.

[@jetc4332]

@@jamessheffield4173 But Chalcedon is about Christology, not the Eucharist. The Eucharist is not a sort of Incarnation. In the Eucharist, the God Incarnate (fully God, fully human) becomes present.

[@josephchapman9575]

No you have defined Transubstantiation wrong. We don't believe that it is no longer bread. We believe that it is God also and most importantly

[@kameelfarag1981]

Joseph Chapman As long as you are not reading the Bible with the mind and the spirit even if you are professor Kreeft, you can be wrong. You can read my note above.

[@dannyvalastro2974]

You can have faith in anything but you dont know it's TRUE

[@peter04345]

The man is deluded. The Eucharist is a time machine. Would you listen to what he is saying. Total made up ism. He sucks the joy and love out of God and praises religion. Picks and chooses scripture.

[@dieselcowboy777]

So you were converted to Catholicism because the catholic cathedrals were beautiful???? The bible said the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were beautiful and took them as wives and God destroyed them for that.... So the natural types the spiritual.....you are still being converted by the beauty of this spiritual woman which is nothing but a trap... Ahab fell into that similar trap with the beauty of a natural woman Jezebel....and the catholic church is a modern day spiritual jezebel....she is beautiful but in her gates is death....

[@suzy4798]

May our Lord open your heart to the truth

[@ucheuju9348]

@@suzy4798 Amen

[@martynasnalivaika4167]

one time in my life I thinked peter is wise. but now is just lafable

[@atgred]

Martynas nalivaika Laughable? Could you be more precise on your behalf? Maybe it is your position that may be laughable? God Bless!

[@BronxCat]

Can you spell correctly? When you have as much knowledge and virtue as this wonderful man - Only then will i shut up and allow you to criticize him...now God Bless You