Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
I believe the confusing aspects of 'transubstantiation' for many lie in the failure to grasp the understanding of what is meant when it is said that Christ is present physically in the consecrated host. As well as what is meant 'externally and internally.' We hear that God and man is present substantially under the auspices of bread and wine, but it takes a bit more contemplation and reflection than simply finding the definition of those terms to better grasp what is really being propagated. For example ' externally and internally' here do not refer to the external and internal properties of the bread and wine. The external and internal properties of the bread and wine remain and Christ is present in them for only as long as the physical attributes ( Aristotle called them accidents) remain because it is clearly stated that He is present under the appearance of those. He is present substantially means that he cannot be present accidently in any way. There is never a time anywhere in nature where human blood is a property of bread or wine.
ReplyDeleteOnly in transubstantiation can the substance of something be consumed by consuming the physical attributes of another.
There is no possible way to eat the substance of a slice of bread without eating its physical properties ( taste, colour, texture, etc...) The same holds true for carnivores, vegetarians and cannibals.