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Are you aware of the physical evidence that sometimes happens with the Catholic consecration of the host and wine. In the cases the host turns in part to cardiac muscle with capillaries, nerves, etc, including white and red blood cells still living after years of the miraculous event. The tissue is always form the heart near the left ventricle, from a middle eastern malse with type AB blood–just like on the shroud of Turin. Sounds crazy, but the miracles have been happening for at least 1300 years and are still happening in our 21st century. The events are meticulously examined. The artifact of cardiac muscle and the artifact of bread fobers are interspersed, united as one. No one can duplicate that phenomena. As Jesus said when the words This is my body are said by an ordained priest the substance truly changes even if hidden from our eyes in most cases. We really do believe His very being (essence/substance).
Don’t believe it? Google Eucharistic miracles in Sokolka (2008) and Legnica (2013), or recently 2006 in Tixtla Mexico. Watch the video from Guadalajara in 2023. All of these are and have been vigorously investigated. The oldest is 1300 years old, yet the host and the tissue remains alive and has been tested as recent as 1979.
My father taught me to make fudge when I was young. He told me to “do this”. When I make it today I remember my father, but the this that I make is not symbolic it is real. Remebering does not make something symbolic. Jesus wants us to come into union with Him. His Eucharist is real.
Praise God for giving us this source of grace. God bless!
Well said. However, I wonder if Jn 6:53-69 ties into your reasoning?
Nicely written … clear and respectful. I associate closely with both a Lutheran (LCMS) congregation and a Catholic theology group (Theology On Tap). I have tried to express to both my LDS perspective on the Sacrament and the nuanced Greek meanings of the text used to fortify the substantial nature of the bread and wine used by both groups. This essay does so superbly. Thank you!