Protestants maintain that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He left us bread and wine by which to remember Him. Catholics maintain that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that He left us Himself under the species of bread and wine. Which one sounds like 'Holy Communion'? Why come all that way, from Heaven to Earth, only to leave us that which He had already given us in the first place? God, as understood by Catholic belief, loves us so much He wants to unite Himself to us, Body, Soul, Humanity and Divinity. God, as understood by Protestant belief, just wants to leave us alone as we remember Him.
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Two of the principle ones are the denial of the Real Presence and of the Ordained Priesthood. Both are of course classical Protestant heresies. We all know now of the recent poll in the USA which indicated that some 70/80% do not believe in the Real Presence. The situation is the same in UK with the Mass being treated as just another Protestant communion service with all and sundry filing past the unused confessionals to partake.
You do well to raise this matter. Sadly we seem to have moved to a stage where it is the informed laity who are preaching and maintaining the Faith, so many of the clergy having given up.
TWO
TRUTHS
To the Nuclear
Plant I went
With wafered host
I was hell-bent.
Exposed the wafered un-
Consecrated host
To radiation
Now, nuked toast.
Offered heretic
"Taste and see."
"Oh no!" He cried
"That's not for me!"
"But look, " I said,
"Nothings changed...
A still white wafered
Host arranged."
"Though looks the same,
Could do much harm!"
The heretic knew
Exclaimed with alarm.
As Catholics know
A spiritual radiation
Daily at Mass
The Transubstantiation!
Luther's argument was not that Jesus isn't present in the Eucharist (he slammed the table and said "this IS my body") but that the bread and wine are still there too.