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To: Notwithstanding

I’ll ask you the question I asked in another post. When you eat the Eucharist are you eating meat or bread?


185 posted on 02/02/2011 12:55:23 PM PST by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear

CCC** 1376:

“The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: ‘Because Christ our Redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread, it has always been the conviction of the Church of God, and this holy Council now declares again, that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood. This change the holy Catholic Church has fittingly and properly called transubstantiation.’”

CCC 1413:
“By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real, and substantial manner: his Body and his Blood, with his soul and his divinity (cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).”

** CCC = the official “Catechism of the Catholic Church”
Searchable at http://ccc.scborromeo.org.master.com/texis/master/search/


190 posted on 02/02/2011 1:20:34 PM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: CynicalBear
"I’ll ask you the question I asked in another post. When you eat the Eucharist are you eating meat or bread?"

Let me ask you a hypothetical question I have asked in other threads that as yet has not been answered. Were you able to travel back in time to Jerusalem on the eve of the Crucifixion, with whatever doctors, scientists and forensic tools available today to examine Jesus none of your tools or experts would be able to establish His divine nature, yet there is no doubt that Jesus was both fully man and fully God. How can you state with any certainty that that exact same divine nature is not also present in the Eucharist based upon your eyeballs only examination?

192 posted on 02/02/2011 1:25:50 PM PST by Natural Law
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