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Jan 20 04 7:22 PM
Quote:Tell me, how can you "chew up" that which you believe is the literal Jesus Christ without breaking "His" bones?
Quote:First of all, the holy council teaches and openly and plainly professes that after the consecration of bread and wine, our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man, is truly, really, and substantially contained in the august sacrament of the Holy Eucharist under the appearance of those sensible things [the bread and wine]. For there is no repugnance in this that our Savior sits always at the right hand of the Father in heaven according to the general mode of existing, and yet is in many other places sacramentally present to us in His own substance by a manner of existence which, though we can scarcely express in words, yet with our understanding illumined by faith, we can concieve and ought most firmly to beleive is possible to God.
Quote:...our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man, is truly, really, and substantially contained in the august sacrament of the Holy Eucharist...
Quote:our Savior sits always...in heaven according to the general mode of existing, and yet is in many other places sacramentally present to us
Quote:Pastors, however, should not fail to observe that in this Sacrament not all these things are contained after the same manner, or by the same power...some things are contained in the Sacrament because they are united to those which are expressed in the form.
Quote:Since, however, to Christ's body are united His blood, His soul, and His Divinity, all of these also must be found to coexist in the Sacrament; not, however, by virtue of the consecration, but by virtue of the union that subsists between them and His body. All these are said to be in the Eucharist by virtue of concomitance. Hence it is clear that Christ, whole and entire, is contained in the Sacrament; for when two things are actually united, where one is, the other must also be.
Quote:For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh.
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