Listen... I'm all for this groovy "I'm ok.. you're ok" trip... have at it... do your thing. I'll try to explain one last time:
Everyone is welcome to come to a Catholic Mass... there is more to our worship than a persons selfish desire to receive Communion. Come.... be fed by the Word in communion with your fellow Christians. We can say a few "Hail Mary's" and I'll take you through the Stations after Mass. Deal?
No one.... NO ONE... has the right to impose their beliefs upon another. Period. Dress it all up in cheery, ecumenical tones, but in fact all you are doing is trying to attack what I believe.
The Eucharist is a type of the Lord's Supper.... this was a specific event and a closed table.
We believe:
The whole Church is united with the offering and intercession of Christ. Since he has the ministry of Peter in the Church, the Pope is associated with every celebration of the Eucharist, wherein he is named as the sign and servant of the unity of the universal Church. The bishop of the place is always responsible for the Eucharist, even when a priest presides; the bishop's name is mentioned to signify his presidency over the particular Church, in the midst of his presbyterium and with the assistance of deacons. The community intercedes also for all ministers who, for it and with it, offer the Eucharistic sacrifice:
Let only that Eucharist be regarded as legitimate, which is celebrated under [the presidency of] the bishop or him to whom he has entrusted it.Through the ministry of priests the spiritual sacrifice of the faithful is completed in union with the sacrifice of Christ the only Mediator, which in the Eucharist is offered through the priests' hands in the name of the whole Church in an unbloody and sacramental manner until the Lord himself comes.
...and if you don't believe this, why would you lie and accept communion?
Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 2 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 1 ARTICLE 3