Ping
Well I finally know what I believe in. I’m a catholic and I believe in CONsubstantiation. His SPIRITUAL presence in the eucharist. It doesn’t change the reverence one should have for it nor does it change its impact.
“Consider how contrary to the mind of God are the heterodox in regard to the grace of God which has come to us ... They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not admit that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, the flesh which suffered for our sins and which the Father, in His graciousness, raised from the dead.” St. Ignatius Of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans”, paragraph 6. circa 80-110 A.D
One of our guys, the third bishop pf Antioch and by tradition the child whom Christ held as described in Matthew 18:4. Likely a pretty good source. In any event, my people have believed it for at least 1800 years...
The Eucharist, like all sacraments, a mystery. Why do you agonize so over it? Is your god so limited?