“It was interesting, and I wish you the best, but if you don’t believe God is almighty, perfect, infinite, and more than we can imagine, we really do have nothing to discuss. “
Of course I believe those things Grateful2God.
[Having said that, God can NEVER act against His nature. He cannot act evily. Cannot be less than just. Etc. So there are things He cannot do. That, as I said above is another conversation.]
To justify what you prefer to believe, under the banner of “God can do anything,” negates revealed truth.
Best.
What I speak of is that tendency people have to put limits on God's Omnipotence. One day, yes, Jesus will return in all His glory. But He also said He would be with us always, even unto the end of time. He remains with us in humility in the Eucharist, consecrated by the priest, by the Power of the Holy Spirit, as an offering to the Father.
Thus Jesus, Who is both God and man, is present, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Blessed Sacrament. "Nothing is impossible with God."- Didn't Jesus Himself day that?
As for the Monstrance,
1 Kings 8:27
27 - Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?
Was the Temple the object of worship, or was the Object the God who dwelt within it?
2 Chronicles 6:19
19 - But to this end only it is made, that thou mayest regard the prayer of thy servant and his supplication, O Lord my God: and mayest hear the prayers which thy servant poureth out before thee.
One can pray to God anytime, anywhere. People go to the Holy Land, dangerous as it can be, to walk in the places Jesus visited during His time in history.
Anyone is able to be with Him physically present in the Eucharist. Trust me, at times such as those, the monstrance is the last thing on my mind, so long as my Jesus within is protected,
Peace be with you!