[D-fendr]

You Latins care way too much about what your disobedient and obstinate children think!

Perhaps. But, what would a Greek say to an obedient and not obstinate child who asked: "But it still tastes like wine"?

[hosepipe]

[ Perhaps. But, what would a Greek say to an obedient and not obstinate child who asked: "But it still tastes like wine"? ]

LoL... Exactly..

[Kolokotronis]

"Perhaps. But, what would a Greek say to an obedient and not obstinate child who asked: "But it still tastes like wine"?"

You know, in rather more than 50 years, I have never heard any Orthodox, child or adult, say that. I don't think anyone thinks about the Eucharist that way. Remember, we receive our "First Communion" at baptism. Its something we grow up with so the idea that its the same thing as the wine at lunch or dinner doesn't really occur to us (its a sweet wine anyway, usually "Commandaria" or something like it so its not like its the sort of wine kids would have much to do with).

If some child did, I suspect the answer would be, "Yes, it does taste like wine, but its not. The Holy Spirit made it the blood of Christouli." The kid then asks, "How?" and we'd say, "Its a Mystery of God." and the kid would go away satisfied because Mysteries of God are not foreign to our kids.