Symbol?

"When you look at the crucifix, you understand how much Jesus loved you. When you look at the Sacred Host you understand how much Jesus loves you now." (Mother Theresa of Calcutta). Protestant denominations claim that at the Last Supper, in His last will and testament, Jesus Christ, God and man, who said, "I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world" (Mathew, 28:20), meant He was going to leave us a symbol of Himself--but not literally Himself!

The Challenge
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821), Foundress of the Sisters of Charity, and a convent, offers all Protestants this challenge: "The words of our Lord are clear enough when taking bread He blessed it, broke it, and gave it to His disciples and said, "Take and eat, this is my Body..." I defy Protestants to produce the authority of any of the Fathers of the first four centuries (whom they often quote as good authorities to prove religious truth), in support of their opinion that the words of Jesus Christ in the institution of this sacrament are to be taken in a figurative sense."
St. Justin Martyr, and Early Church Father explains, "We do not receive this food as ordinary bread and as ordinary drink; but just as Jesus Christ, our Saviour, becomes flesh through the word of God and assumed flesh through through the word of God and assumed flesh and blood for our salvation, so too we are taught that the food over which the Eucharistic prayer is said, the food which nourishes our flesh and blood by assimilation, is the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ."---Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament (2000).