Definitely not. The best way is to connect with him like a friend and son/daughter. By having this kind of relationship with God, you do partake of his body and blood. He was talking figuratively. Religious rituals and eating are of little value.

Yeah, eat Jesus’ meat. He’ll love it

What about vs. 63 in the same chap.?
63“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
And if the apostles took that literally then why did they not say you must eat His flesh and drink His blood in Acts 2:37-41 when the people asked what shall we do?
37Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” 38Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39“For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
40And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” 41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

it is symbolic you idiot, do you believe in magic? does jesus send a piece of his flesh into our mouths in place of bread? and why would he do this? we dont eat his flesh to be saved, it is Symbolic do this in REMEMBRANCE not eat me and be saved.

It depends how you see things, because by saying “eating the flesh and drinking his blood,” that means reading the bible and practicing what It say (personal opinion.) I used to be catholic and now I’m Christian and while I was in the catholic church I never tried to do that I don’t know why, but I just didn’t do it. I respect others’ religions and if they think that is the way, I can’t do nothing. But don’t worry just do the right things and what the bible say and, that’s it.

I feel that partaking in Communion (the eating of the bread and the drinking of the wine) is important. It serves as a reminder of him. However, if that is all you do I don’t understand how you could any closer to him than in just ceremony. I feel that there is far more to Jesus and God than just ceremonies. Being steadfast in prayer about any decisions- no matter how big or small and giving everything to him (such as all worries and all praise) and recognizing our sins and repenting from them. Jesus himself says how we should pray and that is through Jesus himself. We are commanded to love the Lord our God with all of our heart, all of our mind, and all of our sole. God and Jesus should be a part of our everyday lives. Just look at the examples that Jesus not only taught, but also followed. If we try to follow them according to what gifts the Lord has given to us (he gave each one of us different gifts) and according to what the Lord has called and willed us to do then we will be far closer to him than ceremony alone. A personal relationship to me is having him everyday in everything I do.

We have communion in rememberance in him. It’s not some symbolic meaning. Everything in the Bible is literal. God makes anologies to get his point across…(you have ears, but you do not hear, you have eyes, but you do not see). Yes, our breaking of the bread and drinking of the wine is symbolic to the Last Supper, but when Jesus did it, it wasn’t meant to be sybolic. It’s something that really happened.

Pray and read the scriptures and your supposed to pray to God through Jesus Christ he is our mediator with the Father doing these thing will help you get closer to Jesus

I’m not a Catholic, but I’ll say this: Read the rest of Luke. Jesus took WINE and BREAD (Not his flesh and blood) and said “This is my body” and “This is my blood”. Its figurative.

Well, let’s see,….no!
First of all, I don’t feel a need to have a relationship with a dead guy.
Secondly, if you tried to eat me just to get to know me, I would have to really hurt you and run away. Jeffrey Dahmer!
Canibalism causes Mad Cow Disease. Proven.
Drinking blood is vampirism and is forbidden in Judaism in the Torah. No thank you anyway.
I NEVER think of human flesh and blood as nourishment, and you shouldn’t either, Hannibal Lechter.