(March 17, 2018 at 12:50 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: ...We concede that it isn't a concept we have the mental capacity to understand, in the same way an ant doesnt have the brain to understand math. That's why we call it a mystery, as you said. The communion host still looks, tastes, and smells like bread, and is processed in our bodies like bread. But we belive that in some way that we can't grasp, God is present there...
If you don't have the remotest idea how it works then what possible reason do you have for accepting it as an absolute truth?
These dudes: Catholic Bishops Appear to have a handle on it. Send them an E-mail and ask for some clarification.
Quote:...In order for the whole Christ to be present—body, blood, soul, and divinity—the bread and wine cannot remain…
Quote:...Thus in the Eucharist the bread ceases to be bread in substance, and becomes the Body of Christ, while the wine ceases to be wine in substance, and becomes the Blood of Christ...
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.