BUT dear One, Jesus was walking toward him at the river! The priest holds up the magic wafer and states ‘behold’. Sorry, Jesus The Christ is not there in that wafer.
Jesus said at the Last Supper “Do this in memory of me.”
That is why the Mass is always a re-presentation of the Last Supper.
Also — your anti-Catholic bias is showing — The consecrated piece of bread is called a host.
There is no magic in transubstantiation. God can do all things.