Do you really believe your soul is in the same spacetime coordinate system as the body? And what of the spirit which is aligned with the soul, the behavior mechanism? Jesus told us that a man eating or drinking something does not defile the soul or spirit because it comes out in the rought. Can you see how that applies to not gaining spiritual realness by eating of drinking something? Try to avoid using magic thinking when contemplating that issue.
>> So you believe you can ‘mark your soul’ with eating into your digestive tract something your priests have through an incantation transmogrified into the flesh and blood of Jesus? <<
You’re interpeting that Catholics claim what we do on Earth causes God to do something. THAT’S magic. Magic is not real. God doesn’t do anything because of what WE want. What really happens is that when God does something, he often creates a sacrament/sign of it here on Earth. When God wants to perform a miracle, he leads us into prayer. When he wants to save a soul, he leads us to the gospel and ultimately the Church. He wants us to SEE in ways we can understand what it is that he does. When we do things because God leads us to do them, that isn’t magic, that’s a miracle.
Do you believe that Jesus’ healing of the blind man required him to bend down and draw in the mud, then plaster the mud on the man’s eyes? Do you believe that God really needed the lamb’s blood on the doors to know who were Hebrews and therefore spare them? Do you believe there just happened to be an earthquake when Jesus died, and the gospel tells us of this just for historical curiosity?
The “incantations” you sacrilegiously reference is the Word, itself.
“On the day before he was to suffer,
he took bread in his holy and venerable hands,
giving you thanks, he said the blessing,
broke the bread
and gave it to his disciples, saying:
He bows slightly.
Take this, all of you, and eat of it,
for this is my Body,
which will be given up for you. (A bell rings to signify the transubstantiation)
“In a similar way, when supper was ended,
he took this precious chalice
in his holy and venerable hands,
and once more giving you thanks, he said the blessing
and gave the chalice to his disciples, saying:
Take this, all of you, and drink from it,
for this is the chalice of my Blood,
the Blood of the new and eternal covenant,
which will be poured out for you and for many
for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this in memory of me.” (A bell rings to signify the transubstantiation)