Are you possible (sic?) saying that Jesus could not have transubstantiated that bread into His body?Now why would he do that? I doubt that transubstantiated is even in the Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic languages. Or Pidgen.
And no wonder, the whole scenario was made up many years later.
I have taken communion from a Catholic priest before, and it just tasted like an unleavened cracker.
Jesus took some bread and broke it and HANDED it to one of his fellow diners at what is called The Last Supper.
And He said, Take and eat, this is my body, do this in remembrance of me.
It was still bread, still tasted like bread.
It was NOT his literal body obviously.
If it was, it would have tasted like flesh.
And it wasn't magically turned into his body. (Nor was his body changed into a big loaf of bread)
It's a mystery I know, kinda like the Trinity.
It IS his body, but it is still bread.
Jesus doesn't inhabit the Catholic cracker, he doesn't have to.
We take the bread and wine and say, This is your body, broken for me and we take it and eat it.
I guess it is magical in a sense, because it is bread AND His body, just the body part isn't literal
The key thing here is the word *remembrance*.
Jesus did not instruct His disciples to participate in sacrificing Him, killing Him, but rather to do the ceremony to REMEMBER what HE did.
What Catholics don't seem to realize they are saying in their mass is that they are participating in His crucifixion, in the act of killing Him.
In one sense, we are all responsible for His death, but to participate in His continual sacrifice every time they take communion just kind of tells me that they are missing the point.
Nope, that would be consubstantiation, I think that the Lutherans might teach that but Catholics teach that is the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ under the appearance of bread and wine...
He doesn't because He dwells within the heart of the believer.
John 14:23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.
John 17:20-23 20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Colossians 1:27 To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Galatians 2:20 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.