Ah, now you see, this is why we don’t go wandering off from established theology and terminology every 500 years.
Words mean things...and 1500 years ago Christianity was nearly ripped apart by a debate over this very concept of substance: is Christ the *same* substance as the Father or just a *similar* substance? But no, we just make fun of all that in this day and age.
If it will help, I’ll use littler words.
Christ ain’t just in the Eucharist, He IS the Eucharist.
And because she’s His mom, Mary’s sorta in it too.
Christ ain’t just in the Eucharist, He IS the Eucharist.
And because she’s His mom, Mary’s sorta in it too.”
and since the wafer only becomes Christ when the priest gives a blessing then Christ's flesh consists of thousands of pounds of wafer at the word of a human while Christ still sits at the right hand of God.
And Mary is sorta there but then sorta not there but mystically. Anyway it's all a mystery so what words are used are of no significance.
Yes, of course Mary “is sorta in it too” along with her mom and dad which makes that wafer practically a population center.
“Words mean things...and 1500 years ago Christianity was nearly ripped apart by a debate over this very concept of substance: is Christ the *same* substance as the Father or just a *similar* substance? But no, we just make fun of all that in this day and age.”
Yes, words do mean things and the apostate ramblings of councils and the willingness of these “Christians” to murder and otherwise persecute any who didn't accept their words show where words can lead.